US 11,894,534 B2
Battery unit
Masaki Takahashi, Saitama (JP); Tsubasa Ikeya, Saitama (JP); Kenta Sugitate, Saitama (JP); Kazuya Nakano, Saitama (JP); and Ryo Kaneshima, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/182,729.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-035289 (JP), filed on Mar. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0273275 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/6563 (2014.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); H01M 10/6566 (2014.01); H01M 50/30 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/613 (2015.04) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 10/6563 (2015.04); B60K 2001/0433 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery unit equipped in a vehicle comprising:
a battery;
a case accommodating the battery;
an upper surface covering material covering an upper surface of the battery in the case;
an intake portion provided on the upper surface covering material and configured to take in air from an outside of the case to above the battery;
a lower surface covering material covering a lower surface of the battery in the case;
an exhaust portion provided on the lower surface covering material and configured to discharge air that has cooled or heated the battery;
a fan disposed below the exhaust portion, configured to take in air discharged from the exhaust portion, and discharge the air between the lower surface covering material and a bottom surface of the case; and
a control device disposed adjacent to the battery in a vehicle width direction in the case and configured to control the battery,
wherein the intake portion is disposed on one end side of the battery in the vehicle width direction,
wherein the exhaust portion is disposed on another end side of the battery in the vehicle width direction with the battery interposed therebetween,
wherein the control device is disposed on the one end side of the battery in the vehicle width direction, and
wherein the fan includes an exhaust port discharging the air toward the one end side in the vehicle width direction, the air discharged from the exhaust port is supplied to the control device through a space between the lower surface covering material and the bottom surface of the case, and the air is discharged to the outside of the case.