US 12,278,388 B2
Storage module having a degassing line
Semi Ben Salah, Finsing (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/613,246
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/061662
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/239343, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 114 047.1 (DE), filed on May 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0223969 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/317 (2021.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 50/358 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/317 (2021.01) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 50/358 (2021.01); H01M 2200/20 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle, comprising:
an electric drive motor; and
a storage module disposed on a floor panel of the vehicle, wherein the storage module is configured to store electrical energy for operating the electric drive motor;
wherein the storage module comprises:
an electrochemical storage cell;
a housing which encloses the electrochemical storage cell; and
a degassing line, wherein the degassing line is part of at least one structural element of the housing that mounts the storage module on the floor panel of the vehicle, wherein the degassing line is an exhaust gas pipe that extends from the housing to a point that is external to the vehicle and beyond a fender of the vehicle, and wherein an exhaust gas from an interior of the housing is dischargeable by the degassing line to an area external to the vehicle and is coolable by the degassing line;
wherein the degassing line is configured such that the exhaust gas is no longer self-ignitable upon contact with ambient air at an outlet of the degassing line such that a thermal load on an area surrounding the storage module is reduceable.