Battery module having fire-extinguishing unit including fire-extinguishing material
AssigneeLG Energy Solution, Ltd.
InventorsJun Soo Park, Bum Young Jung, Han Young Lee
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Abstract
A battery pack has a fire-extinguishing unit including a fire-extinguishing material, and more particularly to a battery module having a fire-extinguishing unit including a fire-extinguishing material, the battery module including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction and a fire-extinguishing unit located adjacent to each of the battery cells, wherein the fire-extinguishing unit includes a fire-extinguishing pack containing a fire-extinguishing material and at least one breaking unit interposed between the battery cell and the fire-extinguishing pack.
Claims14
A battery module having a fire-extinguishing unit, the battery module comprising:
- a plurality of battery cells stacked in a first direction;
- and
- a plurality of fire extinguishers stacked in the first direction and respectively located between the plurality of battery cells,
- wherein each of the plurality of fire extinguishers comprises a fire-extinguishing pack containing a fire-extinguishing material and at least one breaking unit interposed between a respective battery cell and the fire-extinguishing pack,
- wherein the breaking unit comprises:
- a coupler fixed to the respective battery cell or the fire-extinguishing pack;
- and
- a blade extending from the coupler, and
- wherein the blade is configured to move relative to the fire-extinguishing pack and the coupler to pierce the fire-extinguishing pack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.