摘要 |
A battery including: a plurality of battery cells arranged side-by-side, each battery cell including a terminal tab for delivering power from the cell; a bus plate made of an electrically non-conductive material, the bus plate also having an array of holes formed therein, the array of holes defining a plurality of hole pairs, wherein the terminal tab from each cell of the plurality of cells extends through a corresponding different hole in the array of holes, wherein for each hole pair of the plurality of hole pairs, the terminal tabs extending through that hole pair are folded one over the other to produce overlapping tabs for that hole pair; and a plurality of clamps each of which clamps together the overlapping tabs of a corresponding different hole pair. |