Battery module including heat radiation paint coating layer
View Patent ↗Provided herein is a battery module that is capable of improving cooling efficiency despite a compact structure without using numerous members. The battery module according to the present disclosure includes a battery stack where batteries are stacked; and a battery management system, and includes a heat radiation paint coating layer that includes a heat radiation material in at least a portion of the constituting components.
1. A battery module comprising:
a battery stack where batteries are stacked; and
a battery management system,
wherein, in the battery stack, electrode leads of the batteries are connected to each other via a busbar, the battery management system includes a voltage detection unit that includes a relay, a current sensor that includes a shunt resistance is further included between the battery stack and the battery management system, and a heat radiation paint coating layer is included in an electrical connection portion of at least one of the busbar, relay, shunt and constituting components of battery management system,
wherein the heat radiation paint coating layer includes a heat radiation material comprising a carbon material and metal particles, and
wherein the heat radiation paint coating layer is a layer formed by applying a liquid phase paint where the heat radiation material and polymer have been mixed and then being cured in order to reduce the temperature by cooling by radiation.
2. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the heat radiation paint coating layer is included in a portion of the constituting components having a temperature of 60° C. or above.
3. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the heat radiation paint coating layer has a heat radiation rate of 0.9 or above.
4. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon material is one or more selected from graphite, graphene, carbon nano tube and carbon nano fiber.
5. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the metal particles are one or more selected from a group consisting of aluminum, gold, silver, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, tungsten and iron.
6. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the heat radiation paint coating layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 300 μm.
7. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the heat radiation paint coating layer is applied in a method of directly coating a heat radiation paint, or by sheet or tape on top of the constituting component.
8. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein as the heat radiation paint coating layer is included, the temperature of the electrical connection portion is reduced by 15° C. at the minimum.
9. The battery module according to claim 1 , wherein the battery is a plate shape battery, and is stack-arranged such that one surface or both surfaces of the battery face an adjacent battery to form the battery stack.
10. The battery module according to claim 9 , wherein the plate shape battery is a pouch-type battery of a structure where an outer circumferential surface of a battery case is thermoset and sealed in a state where an electrode assembly is embedded in the battery case of a laminate sheet including a resin layer and a metal layer, and the thermoset outer circumferential surface of the pouch-type battery may be fixed between cartridges forming the battery stack by fixing each of the batteries.
11. A battery pack comprising a battery module according to claim 1 as a unit module.
12. A device that is one of an electric vehicle, a hybrid electric vehicle, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, and an electric storage apparatus that includes the battery pack according to claim 11 .