US 11,996,567 B2
Battery module
Myeong Hwan Ma, Daejeon (KR); Seok Min Kim, Daejeon (KR); Seo Roh Rhee, Daejeon (KR); Hae Ryong Jeon, Daejeon (KR); Seung Hoon Ju, Daejeon (KR); Yang Kyu Choi, Daejeon (KR); and Dong Ha Hwang, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to SK ON CO., LTD., Seoul (KR)
Filed by SK Innovation Co., Ltd., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/101,289.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0151368 (KR), filed on Nov. 22, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-0155591 (KR), filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0159469 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 50/16 (2021.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/6554 (2014.01); H01M 50/116 (2021.01); H01M 50/24 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/116 (2021.01) [H01M 10/4207 (2013.01); H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/6554 (2015.04); H01M 50/24 (2021.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery module comprising:
a plurality of secondary battery cells;
a housing member accommodating the plurality of the secondary battery cells therein; and
an insulating member disposed on an inner surface of the housing member, preventing flow of electrical current to the housing member, having a heat transfer function to discharge heat of the secondary battery cell externally, and formed to have a predetermined thickness,
wherein the housing member comprises:
a cooling plate member which forms a bottom of the housing member; and
a sidewall member which forms a side portion of the housing member,
wherein the insulating member comprises:
a bottom insulating portion disposed on the cooling plate member; and
a sidewall insulating portion disposed on the sidewall member,
wherein the bottom insulating portion and the sidewall insulating portion meet at two edges of the bottom insulating portion,
wherein the bottom insulating portion is configured to have a first predetermined thickness and the sidewall insulating portion is configured to have a second predetermined thickness, and
wherein the bottom insulating portion is configured to have a flat shape and the sidewall insulating portion is configured to have a flat shape.