Relief valve
AssigneesPacific Industrial Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki SUNAYAMA, Kazuhiro KANAMORI, Shigeyuki INOUE, Junki SUGIMOTO
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Abstract
A relief valve includes: a base part fixed to a battery pack and having a valve hole configured to discharge gas in the battery pack to outside; a support member included in the base part and extending from an inner surface or an opening edge of the valve hole into the valve hole or an extended space of the valve hole; a valve body covering the valve hole from an outer side, supported by the support member, and configured to operate so as to move away from the valve hole to the outer side in response to an increase in pressure in the battery pack; and a shielding member included in the base part and covering the support member from the battery pack side.
Claims20
A relief valve comprising:
- a base part fixed to a battery pack and having a valve hole configured to discharge gas in the battery pack to outside;
- a support member included in the base part and extending from an inner surface or an opening edge of the valve hole into the valve hole or an extended space of the valve hole;
- a valve body covering the valve hole from an outer side, supported by the support member, and configured to operate so as to move away from the valve hole to the outer side in response to an increase in pressure in the battery pack;
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- a shielding member included in the base part and covering the support member from the battery pack side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.