ENERGY STORAGE DISPENSING SOLUTIONS

Materials Involved: UV-cure adhesives, epoxies, 2K materials, hot melts

Battery cell components can require precise amounts of material to be delivered to 100 electrode layers or more. Additionally, components such as separators, soft-pack external castings, and safety vents often need delicate application of material to provide enhanced product quality and increased safety. To maintain warehouse efficiency and effectiveness, these dispenses need to occur fast and accurately. Generally, these types of applications require a quick delivery time between 1 and 4 seconds per material dispense. GP Reeves can accomplish this type of battery manufacturing with ease and has maximized production efficiency and improved overall product quality while doing so.

Why GP Reeves? For your cell components, you can trust the 50+ years of experience GP Reeves possesses in unique dispensing processes Even though this process can be complex, GP Reeves ensures that our equipment is compatible with a variety of materials and deposit formats to provide you with long lasting and reliable machinery Our expertise in automation ensures that the process can be repeated with the same level of accuracy again and again

Materials Involved: Electrolytes, Battery Acid

For appropriate battery filling, dispensing products must withstand the corrosive properties of electrolyte material while dispensing extremely accurate, repeatable dispenses. The battery acid material is needed to transport the positive lithium ions between the cathode and anode layers of battery cells, so this process must be accomplished with extensive precision and effectiveness. GP Reeves has conducted battery fill projects for some of the largest battery manufacturers on the globe, with custom tooling, intelligent integration, and cutting-edge dispense systems, we’re enabling battery developers to charge ahead.

We’ve created a variety of custom solutions specifically for battery fill projects. This ability to create innovative, effective, and accurate filling systems is highlighted in this quick clip:

Materials Involved: Epoxies, 2K Materials, UV-Cure Materials

Because certain power distribution aspects require specific dispensed material formatting, it’s significantly important that dispensing equipment can provide the best accommodations of electrical components possible. We’ve applied material to bond current collectors, current circuits, and seal electrical components from moisture or other foreign materials. With our machinery, you’ll be satisfied with consistent material placement and reliable bonding between electric components and battery apparatuses.

Why GP Reeves? Our range of dispense valves, custom components, and ability to work with complex materials enables GP Reeves to promote great effectiveness, longevity, and reliability for battery electric components. With our automated bonding technology, the amount of downtime between cycles is significantly reduced – allowing your electrical component to module bonds to occur efficiently and productively. Our engineers ensure material is delivered to each location precisely and reliably so that your electrical components will be supported throughout the battery’s lifetime

Materials Involved: UV-Cure Adhesives, 2K Materials, Hot Melt, Silicones

No matter the type of battery, whether it be cylindrical, prismatic, or soft pack, it will require precise amounts of material to be delivered to cell stacks. These cells can be relatively sensitive components, so no heat or force can be applied during the bonding process. The application of material must also be extremely accurate to ensure no air pockets are able to form within the battery components, especially since these create a higher likelihood for short circuits. GP Reeves can apply airless material to these cells to improve structural rigidity and assembly simplicity.

Materials Involved: TIM (Thermal Interface Material), Abrasives, 2K Adhesives

Oftentimes, cell modules will be enclosed in a structure that gets sealed closed to prevent moisture, heat, or foreign contaminants to impact the internal components of the battery. If a cold plate is used, a precise dispense of material will be required to provide a strong structural bond, good thermal conductivity, and prominent dielectric strength. Because GP Reeves can deliver material with intense precision and critical control, we’re the perfect team for this type of job.

Materials Involved: TIM, Silicones, Hot Butyl, Epoxies, Urethanes

Gap filling materials allow a battery to possess great thermal dissipation from the heated modules to the cooling circuit components of the battery pack. This type of application needs dispensing to occur at high-flow rates and oftentimes involves robust pumping characteristics. Air cannot get into the battery system during this process, especially as it can allow for ineffective transfer of heat throughout the battery. Because GP Reeves can customize machinery and provide solutions that are resistant to abrasive materials, we enable thermal gap fillers to be reliably and precisely dispensed onto exact product components with tight tolerances and exceptional quality.

GP Reeves has designed several gap filling systems to provide customers with increased product quality, elevated assembly efficiency, and great thermal management. An example of our work in this area is exemplified in this electric delivery truck case study.