Vehicle battery assembly utilizing side cooling plates
AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation
InventorsLars Johan Stenvall, Patrik Larsson, Klas Persson, Björn Scherdin
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Abstract
A vehicle battery assembly utilizing side cooling plates. This battery assembly avoids a stacked vertical battery and cooling plate or pack arrangement, optimizes tunnel (and other) space utilization, minimizes battery assembly intrusion into the passenger compartment of the associated vehicle, and allows seat position height to be as low as possible within the passenger compartment of the associated vehicle, while still allowing vertical access to the access points and electrical contacts of the battery modules within the battery assembly. Further, such battery assembly is compatible with conventional and novel cooling pipe configurations and cooling systems.
Claims18
A vehicle battery assembly, comprising:
- a battery module having a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of lateral side surfaces, and a plurality of transverse end surfaces;
- and
- at least one cooling plate adapted to circulate a cooling fluid disposed adjacent to at least one of the plurality of lateral side surfaces and the plurality of transverse end surfaces of the battery module;
- wherein the bottom surface of the battery module is adapted to be disposed adjacent to a chassis of a vehicle without a cooling plate disposed there between.
An integrated battery module for use in a vehicle battery assembly, the integrated battery module comprising:
- a battery module having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of side surfaces;
- at least one reinforced side cooling plate adapted to circulate a cooling fluid disposed adjacent to at least one of the plurality of side surfaces of the battery module;
- a rigid bottom plate disposed adjacent to the bottom surface of the battery module and coupled to the at least one reinforced side cooling plate;
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- one or more rigid planar top structures disposed adjacent to the top surface of the battery module and coupled to the at least one reinforced side cooling plate;
- wherein the bottom surface of the battery module is adapted to be disposed adjacent to the rigid bottom plate and a chassis of a vehicle without a cooling plate disposed there between.
A vehicle, comprising:
- one or more electric components;
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- a vehicle battery assembly coupled to the one or more electric components, the vehicle battery assembly comprising:
- a battery module having a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of lateral side surfaces, and a plurality of transverse end surfaces;
- and
- at least one cooling plate adapted to circulate a cooling fluid disposed adjacent to at least one of the plurality of lateral side surfaces and the plurality of transverse end surfaces of the battery module;
- wherein the bottom surface of the battery module is adapted to be disposed adjacent to a chassis of the vehicle without a cooling plate disposed there between.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.