Gas deflector having cooling vents
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsMark Doroudian, Sreekanth Surapaneni, Venkata Chagarlamudi
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Abstract
A vehicle including a battery pack including a housing and a plurality of battery cells positioned in the housing, the housing including at least one discharge vent configured to discharge gases generated by the battery cells from the housing; and a manifold attached to the housing and configured for receipt of the gases generated by the battery cells from the at least one vent, wherein the manifold includes a plurality of cooling vents that are configured to permit ambient air to enter the manifold to intermix with the gases generated by the battery cells.
Claims15
A vehicle comprising:
- a battery pack including a housing and a plurality of battery cells positioned in the housing, the housing including at least one discharge vent configured to discharge gases generated by the battery cells from the housing;
- and
- a manifold attached to the housing and configured for receipt of the gases generated by the battery cells from the at least one vent;
- wherein the manifold includes a plurality of cooling vents that are configured to permit ambient air to enter the manifold to intermix with the gases generated by the battery cells.
A method for cooling gases generated by a battery cell, comprising:
- collecting the gases generated by the battery cell in a manifold;
- drawing ambient air into the manifold through a plurality of cooling vents formed in the manifold;
- intermixing the gases generated by the battery cell collected in the manifold with the ambient air using a plurality of fluid deflecting tabs located in the manifold, the intermixing of the gases and the ambient air cooling the gases;
- and
- discharging the intermixed gases and ambient air from the manifold through a conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.