US 12,230,773 B2
Battery pack
Sangjoo Lee, Yongin-si (KR); and Hanjun Wang, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/197,408.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0045235 (KR), filed on Apr. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0320340 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 10/00 (2006.01); G01K 7/22 (2006.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 50/531 (2021.01); H01M 50/569 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/486 (2013.01) [G01K 7/22 (2013.01); H01M 10/425 (2013.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H01M 50/204 (2021.01); H01M 50/531 (2021.01); H01M 50/569 (2021.01); H01M 2010/4271 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery pack, comprising:
a frame including a thermistor seat and a thermistor accommodated in the thermistor seat;
at least one battery cell on the frame and connected to the thermistor; and
a protective circuit module, the protective circuit module including a projection between a portion of the thermistor and the at least one battery cell,
wherein:
the thermistor seat includes:
a pair of first partition walls extending parallel to each other and surrounding the thermistor; and
a second partition wall extending between the pair of first partition walls and connecting end portions of the pair of first partition walls to each other,
the thermistor is accommodated in a space between the pair of first partition walls and the second partition wall, and
the projection protrudes from a main body of the protective circuit module above a portion of the thermistor seat and covers the portion of the thermistor in the thermistor seat, at least a top of one of the pair of first partition walls, and at least a portion of the space between the pair of first partition walls,
wherein: the thermistor includes a thermistor wiring, the thermistor wiring extending along and in parallel to a bottom of the projection, and the projection covers one terminal end of the thermistor wiring of the thermistor.