US 11,749,856 B2
Battery module
Jaeyoung Keum, Yongin-si (KR); Daeyeop Park, Yongin-si (KR); and Wunseok Jeong, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Appl. No. 16/763,754
Filed by Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2018, PCT No. PCT/KR2018/011656
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 13, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/117437, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 20, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0169524 (KR), filed on Dec. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0373637 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. H01M 10/6556 (2014.01); H01M 10/6568 (2014.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01)
CPC H01M 10/6556 (2015.04) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/6568 (2015.04)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery module comprising:
a battery pack;
a tube element accommodating a flow of a cooling medium for cooling the battery pack, the tube element comprising an inner tube element that is bent and an outer tube element that is bent around the inner tube element; and
a tube element cover surrounding the tube element in a section in which a path of the tube element is bent or the tube element is discontinuously connected, the tube element cover comprising a third tube element cover that comprises an inner portion and an outer portion which respectively cover the inner tube element and the outer tube element, and the inner portion extends more than the outer portion along an extension direction of the tube element,
wherein the tube element and tube element cover are embedded in a lower housing, and
wherein the lower housing is coupled to an upper housing in mutually-facing directions in a state in which an accommodation space in which the battery pack is accommodated is defined between the lower housing and the upper housing.