Electric vehicle exhaust system
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsUday Kiran Mahakali, Sreekanth Surapaneni, Mohan Chagarlamudi
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Abstract
A vehicle including a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells; a pipe in communication with the battery pack, and configured to collect a flow of gases that are generated by the plurality of battery cells; and a battery gas treatment system in communication with the pipe that is configured to treat the flow of gases that are generated by the plurality of battery cells, wherein the battery gas treatment system is configured to treat the flow of gases by at least one of cooling the flow of gases and chemically treating the flow of gases to eliminate or at least reduce a number of various chemical species from the flow of gases.
Claims19
A vehicle, comprising:
- a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells;
- a pipe in communication with the battery pack, and configured to collect a flow of gases that are generated by the plurality of battery cells;
- and
- a battery gas treatment system in communication with the pipe that is configured to treat the flow of gases that are generated by the plurality of battery cells,
- wherein the battery gas treatment system is configured to treat the flow of gases by at least one of cooling the flow of gases and chemically treating the flow of gases to eliminate or at least reduce a number of various chemical species from the flow of gases.
A vehicle, comprising:
- a battery pack including a plurality of battery cells;
- a pipe in communication with the battery pack, and configured to collect a flow of gases that are generated by the plurality of battery cells;
- a battery gas treatment system in communication with the pipe that is configured to treat the flow of gases that are generated by the plurality of battery cells;
- and
- a battery gas conversion device in communication with the pipe and configured to receive the flow of gases,
- wherein the battery gas treatment system is configured to treat the flow of gases by at least one of cooling the flow of gases and chemically treating the flow of gases to eliminate or at least reduce a number of various chemical species from the flow of gases;
- and
- wherein the battery gas conversion device includes a plurality of treatment zones for chemically treating the flow of gases to eliminate or at least reduce the number of various chemical species from the flow of gases.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.