US 12,230,775 B2
Battery packs with safety features and methods of installing such packs on truck frames
Phil Gow, Gardena, CA (US); Kenneth Kawanishi, Gardena, CA (US); Phillip John Weicker, Hermosa Beach, CA (US); Cody Rhebergen, Gardena, CA (US); John Henry Harris, III, Anaheim, CA (US); Vu Phan, Gardena, CA (US); Michael Carl Fricke, Culver City, CA (US); Daniel McCarron, Gardena, CA (US); and Deborah Bourke, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to Harbinger Motors Inc., Garden Grove, CA (US)
Filed by Harbinger Motors Inc., Gardena, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/591,351.
Application 18/591,351 is a continuation of application No. 18/467,088, filed on Sep. 14, 2023, granted, now 11,949,080.
Application 18/467,088 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2023/073569, filed on Sep. 6, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/374,712, filed on Sep. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/374,708, filed on Sep. 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0234851 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/63 (2014.01); H01M 10/6551 (2014.01); H01M 10/6568 (2014.01); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/325 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/625 (2015.04) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H01M 10/486 (2013.01); H01M 10/63 (2015.04); H01M 10/6551 (2015.04); H01M 10/6568 (2015.04); H01M 50/209 (2021.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/325 (2021.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery pack comprising:
a first portion;
a second portion, attached to the first portion and forming an enclosed cavity with the first portion;
a set of battery modules positioned within the enclosed cavity and separated by a set of module gaps; and
a set of pressure-relief valves positioned in and protruding through a wall of the first portion, wherein each valve in the set of pressure-relief valves is configured to provide a fluid path from the enclosed cavity to environment outside of the battery pack when pressure inside the enclosed cavity is at or exceeds a set threshold and is further configured to fluidically isolate the enclosed cavity from the environment when the pressure inside the enclosed cavity is below the set threshold.