US 11,721,856 B2
Battery pack for a vehicle
Carl-Michael Masaryk, Graz (AT); Matthias Pucher, Graz (AT); and Thomas Bernhard, Graz (AT)
Assigned to Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/599,465.
Claims priority of application No. 18200160 (EP), filed on Oct. 12, 2018; and application No. 10-2019-0121104 (KR), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0119417 A1, Apr. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. H01M 10/6567 (2014.01); H01M 10/6556 (2014.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01); H01M 50/209 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/6567 (2015.04) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 10/6556 (2015.04); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/262 (2021.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery pack for a vehicle, the battery pack comprising:
a battery module comprising a plurality of secondary battery cells;
a carrier plate having a top surface and a side wall facing in a different direction than the top surface, the carrier plate comprising an integral first coupling element inside a coupling opening in the side wall of the carrier plate and an integral cooling channel structure having a cooling opening in the side wall of the carrier plate, the coupling opening being separate and spaced apart from the cooling opening in the side wall of the carrier plate, the battery module being on the top surface of the carrier plate;
a coupling member comprising:
a second coupling element configured to interact with the first coupling element inside the coupling opening to mechanically connect the coupling member and the carrier plate to each other; and
a mounting bracket; and
a coolant distributor in a fluid-tight connection with the integral cooling channel structure and extending into the cooling opening in the side wall of the carrier plate,
wherein the coolant distributor is removably retained in position relative to the carrier plate by the mounting bracket of the coupling member.