Battery module

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025038292-A1
Application number	US-202418734090-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 5, 2024
Priority date	Jul 27, 2023
Publication date	Jan 30, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A battery module includes a battery cell and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with a battery cell case. The battery cell includes an electrode body including plural layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and the battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case. The battery cell case includes at least a metal layer and a fusion resin layer disposed at the inner face side of the metal layer and has an exposed portion, at which the metal layer is exposed, at at least part of the outer face of the battery cell case. The heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A battery module, comprising:
a battery cell including an electrode body including a plurality of layered structures layered one on another, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a battery cell case that hermetically encloses the electrode body inside the battery cell case; and a heat dissipation member that is in contact with the battery cell case, wherein the battery cell case includes at least a metal layer and a fusion resin layer disposed on an inner face side of the metal layer and includes, at at least part of an outer face of the battery cell case, an exposed portion at which the metal layer is exposed, and the heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion.

2 . The battery module of claim 1 , wherein an electrode face of the electrode body has a rectangular shape, and the exposed portion is disposed at an end portion on a long side of the rectangular shape.

3 . The battery module of claim 1 , wherein the battery cell case has the exposed portion on an outer face of a region E at which an inner face of the battery cell case is in contact with the electrode body, and the heat dissipation member is in contact with the exposed portion in the region E.

4 . The battery module of claim 1 , wherein the battery cell case includes a first sheet having the exposed portion and a second sheet not having the exposed portion, and an average thickness of the metal layer in the first sheet is greater than an average thickness of the metal layer in the second sheet.

5 . The battery module of claim 1 , wherein the battery module includes, as the heat dissipation member, at least one of a battery module case or a condenser, and the at least one of the battery module case or the condenser is in contact with the exposed portion.

6 . The battery module of claim 1 , wherein the battery module includes at least one of a battery module case or a condenser and includes a resin member that contacts and connects the battery cell case and at least one of the battery module case or the condenser, serving as the heat dissipation member, and the resin member is in contact with the exposed portion.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kato Kazuhito
• Ono Masato
• Kintsu Yusuke
• Yamanaka Atsushi
• Goto Takaaki
• Utsumi Shintaro
• Awano Hiroki

Classifications

• H01M10/625

  Vehicles · CPC title

• H01M10/655

  Solid structures for heat exchange or heat conduction · CPC title

• H01M10/653

  characterised by electrically insulating or thermally conductive materials · CPC title

• H01M10/6551

  Surfaces specially adapted for heat dissipation or radiation, e.g. fins or coatings · CPC title

• H01M10/613 Primary

  Cooling or keeping cold · CPC title