US 11,942,615 B2
Air-cooled battery cooling system for air mobility vehicle
Hyun Woo Jun, Whasung-Si (KR); Woo Suk Jung, Whasung-Si (KR); Hee Kwang Lee, Whasung-Si (KR); and Hyun Seok Hong, Whasung-Si (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Jul. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/379,215.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0150233 (KR), filed on Nov. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0149456 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 10/655 (2014.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/643 (2014.01); H01M 10/653 (2014.01); H01M 50/213 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/655 (2015.04) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/643 (2015.04); H01M 10/653 (2015.04); H01M 50/213 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An air-cooled battery cooling system for an air mobility vehicle, the air-cooled battery cooling system comprising:
a base including a mounting space extending in a longitudinal direction of the base, and having defined therein an air path through which an external air flows into the mounting space; and
a battery pack mounted inside the mounting space of the base and including a plurality of batteries and a plurality of heat transfer panels fixing the plurality of batteries in the battery pack,
wherein the plurality of heat transfer panels is spaced from each other to define air circulation paths therebetween so that the external air introduced through the air path of the mounting space cools the plurality of batteries while flowing through the air circulation paths,
wherein the air path includes a first air path and a second air path,
wherein the mounting space is equipped at an intersection where the first air path, which penetrates the base in a front-to-back direction, and the second air path, which penetrates the base in a vertical direction, intersect, and
wherein the base is equipped with a propeller that transitions between a state of supplying a generated airflow, which produces lift for the air mobility vehicle, to the mounting space through the first air path, and a state of supplying the generated airflow to the mounting space through the second air path.