IP Library Granted Patent US 12,463,271
Granted Patent B2
US 12,463,271 · App. 18/179,268 · Granted Nov 4, 2025

Battery pack

Inventors: Jooyul Lee (Yongin-si, KR); Nohyun Kwag (Yongin-si, KR); Seungil Kim (Yongin-si, KR); Gangya Park (Yongin-si, KR); Jungjin Lee (Yongin-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
H01M10/6567H01M10/4257H01M10/613H01M50/213H01M50/271H01M50/284H01M50/505H01M10/425H01M10/643H01M50/287H01M50/298H01M50/519H01M50/533
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Patent No.
US 12,463,271
App. No.
18/179,268
Granted
Nov 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A battery pack includes: battery cells, each including first and second end portions that are opposite each other in a length direction; a case having an accommodation space in which the battery cells and a fluid to cool the battery cells are configured to be accommodated, the case including first and second covers respectively covering the first and second end portions; first and second tab plates respectively on the first and second covers and connected to the first and second end portions; a circuit board on the first tab plate; and a first lead and a second lead through which the first and second tab plates are connected to the circuit board, the first and second leads connected to a first side portion of the circuit board. An arrangement of the leads connected to electrodes of the battery cells is improved, and heat is efficiently dissipated from a switch device.

Claims (20)

1 . A battery pack comprising:

a plurality of battery cells;

a case having an accommodation space in which the plurality of battery cells and a cooling fluid to directly contact and cool the plurality of battery cells are configured to be accommodated;

a barrier wall extending across the accommodation space along a length direction of the case extending from a first end side of the case to a second end side of the case opposite the first end side and dividing the accommodation space into an upstream area connected to an inlet of the cooling fluid and a downstream area connected to an outlet of the cooling fluid, the downstream area being spaced from the upstream area in a width direction of the case crossing the length direction; and

a switch device on a first side of the case facing away from the barrier wall along the width direction, the first side of the case being closer to the upstream area than to the downstream area.

2 . The battery pack of claim 1 , wherein the barrier wall comprises a communication area connecting the upstream area and the downstream area to each other.

3 . The battery pack of claim 2 , wherein the inlet and the outlet are at the first end side of the case, and the communication area is at the second end side of the case.

4 . The battery pack of claim 1 , wherein the switch device is on a side of a long-side portion of the case, the long-side portion of the case extending in an extension direction of the barrier wall.

5 . The battery pack of claim 1 , wherein the case comprises:

first and second covers configured to respectively cover first and second end portions of the plurality of battery cells, the first and second end portions of the plurality of battery cells being opposite each other in a length direction of the plurality of battery cells; and

a middle case between the first and second covers.

6 . The battery pack of claim 5 , wherein the inlet, the outlet, and a coupling position of the barrier wall are at a short-side portion of the middle case, and the switch device is on a side of a long-side portion of the middle case.

7 . The battery pack of claim 1 , further comprising a circuit board on the first side of the case facing away from the barrier wall along the width direction.

8 . A battery pack comprising:

a plurality of battery cells;

a case having an accommodation space in which the plurality of battery cells and a cooling fluid to directly contact and cool the plurality of battery cells are configured to be accommodated;

a barrier wall extending across the accommodation space along a length direction of the case extending from a first end side of the case to a second end side of the case opposite the first end side and dividing the accommodation space into an upstream area connected to an inlet of the cooling fluid and a downstream area connected to an outlet of the cooling fluid, the downstream area being spaced from the upstream area in a width direction of the case crossing the length direction;

a switch device on a first side of the case facing away from the barrier wall along the width direction; and

a circuit board on a second side of the case facing a height direction that crosses each of the length direction and the width direction.

9 . The battery pack of claim 3 , wherein the switch device is adjacent the second end side of the case.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2023
From: LEE, JOOYUL; KWAG, NOHYUN; KIM, SEUNGIL; PARK, GANGYA; LEE, JUNGJIN
To: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 062897/0001 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0123928 · Oct 17, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 16595900 · Oct 8, 2019
Related Publication 20230207925A1 · Jun 29, 2023
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