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US 8,802,254 B2Granted
Battery module
AssigneesSamsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
InventorHyun-Ye Lee
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Abstract
A battery module includes a plurality of rechargeable batteries and a housing configured to receive the rechargeable batteries, wherein the housing has a vent opening; and a valve configured to close the vent opening, wherein the valve includes a porous film with pores having a diameter larger than that of gas molecules and smaller than that of water particles.
Claims17
A battery module comprising:
- a plurality of rechargeable batteries;
- a housing configured to receive the rechargeable batteries into an inner space, wherein the housing has a vent opening configured to discharge gas molecules from an interior side of the housing to an exterior side of the housing;
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- a valve configured to close the vent opening, wherein the valve comprises a porous film with pores having a diameter larger than that of the gas molecules and smaller than that of water particles, and wherein the porous film is located in the inner space and is partially on and overlapped with the interior side of the housing.
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A battery module comprising:
- a plurality of rechargeable batteries;
- a housing configured to receive the rechargeable batteries into an inner space, wherein the housing has a vent opening configured to discharge gas molecules from an interior side of the housing to an exterior side of the housing;
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- a valve configured to close the vent opening and to be ruptured at a rupture pressure;
- wherein the valve is configured to pass the gas molecules through the valve and block liquid molecules, and wherein a portion of the valve is located in the inner space and is partially on and overlapped with the interior side of the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.