Motor vehicle comprising a traction battery module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11780310-B2
Application number	US-202117522018-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2021
Priority date	Nov 10, 2020
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

A motor vehicle includes a traction battery module which has a hermetically sealed module housing in which at least one cell stack pair including a left-hand-side and a right-hand-side cell stack including, in each case, at least two battery cells is accommodated. The traction battery module is arranged in the vehicle floor and extends symmetrically in relation to the vehicle center (M) in the vehicle transverse direction (X). The traction battery module has a bottom wall in a horizontal plane. A gas space is formed in the module housing in the vehicle center (M) and between the left-hand-side cell stack and the right-hand-side cell stack with respect to the vehicle transverse direction (X). The module bottom wall has a degassing element centrally in the vehicle in the region of the gas space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor vehicle comprising a traction battery module, the traction battery module comprising:
a hermetically sealed module housing,
at least two cell stack pairs including a left-hand-side cell stack and a right-hand-side cell stack accommodated in the module housing, wherein each cell stack includes at least two battery cells,
wherein the traction battery module is arranged in a vehicle floor, extends symmetrically with respect to a vehicle center (M) in a vehicle transverse direction (X) and has a bottom wall in a horizontal plane, wherein the at least two cell stack pairs are arranged adjacent to one another as seen in a vehicle longitudinal direction (Y),
wherein two gas spaces are formed in the module housing in the vehicle center (M) between the at least two cell stack pairs with respect to the vehicle transverse direction (X), and
wherein the two gas spaces are insulated from one another in a gas-tight manner and two dedicated degassing elements are respectively associated with each of the two gas spaces.

2. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein four side walls of the module housing are formed in one piece from an extrusion profile.

3. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the two dedicated degassing elements are arranged in a center of one of the two gas spaces relative to the vehicle transverse direction (X).

4. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the two dedicated degassing elements is arranged between the left-hand-side cell stack and a right-hand-side cell stack.

5. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a separating wall arranged between the at least two cell stack pairs.

6. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 5 , wherein each of the two dedicated degassing elements is arranged on an opposite side relative to the separating wall.

7. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least two battery cells are stacked in a vertical transverse plane, so that a proximal narrow side of each of the at least two battery cells adjoins the two dedicated gas spaces.

8. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the two gas spaces are cuboidal and have a width (B) of at least 10 cm in the vehicle transverse direction (X).

9. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the two gas spaces are cuboidal and have a width (B) of at most 30 cm in the vehicle transverse direction (X).

10. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the two gas spaces are cuboidal and extend over the entire vertical extent of the left-hand-side cell stack and the right-hand-side cell stack in a vertical direction (Z).

11. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the two gas spaces are cuboidal and extend over an entire longitudinal extent (L) of one of the left-hand-side cell stack or the right-hand-side cell stack in a vehicle longitudinal direction (Y).

12. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one degassing element of the two dedicated degassing elements is a gas-tight rupture disk.

13. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a planar and liquid-cooled cooling base which (i) has a degassing opening, (ii) is disposed centrally in the motor vehicle, in vertical alignment with the degassing element, and (iii) is arranged below the module bottom wall.

Assignees

• Porsche Ag

Inventors

• Kellner Philipp
• Mostofi Sascha
• Volkmer Christopher
• Vogel Immanuel
• Starczewski Adrian
• Schiebel Dieter
• Keller Ralf
• Müller Maximilian

Classifications

• B60K1/04 Primary

  of the electric storage means for propulsion · CPC title

• H01M10/613

  Cooling or keeping cold · CPC title

• H01M50/183

  Sealing members · CPC title

• H01M50/209

  adapted for prismatic or rectangular cells (H01M50/216 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01M50/30 Primary

  Arrangements for facilitating escape of gases · CPC title