US 12,391,147 B2
Structure for cooling a battery of a vehicle
Kyung Sang Yu, Uijeongbu-si (KR); Je Pil Joung, Gwangmyeong-si (KR); Jun Young Lim, Incheon (KR); Won Jung Song, Seoul (KR); and Sung Bae Bang, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed by HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Seoul (KR); and KIA CORPORATION, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/985,985.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0014927 (KR), filed on Feb. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249583 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/60 (2019.01); B60L 58/26 (2019.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/6563 (2014.01); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/358 (2021.01)
CPC B60L 58/26 (2019.02) [B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60L 50/66 (2019.02); H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 10/6563 (2015.04); H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/358 (2021.01); B60K 2001/0438 (2013.01); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A structure for cooling a battery of a vehicle, the structure comprising:
a battery case configured to accommodate a battery and mounted underneath a vehicle body floor;
a lateral vehicle body member extending along a transverse direction of a vehicle body at a rear of the battery case;
a longitudinal vehicle body member with a front end sealed by the lateral vehicle body member,
wherein the longitudinal vehicle body member is configured to form an air passage through which air discharged from the battery case flows into a trunk and further configured to be elongated in a straight line in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body; and
a connection duct formed by the longitudinal vehicle body member and configured to supply the air discharged from the battery case to the air passage,
wherein the longitudinal vehicle body member is coupled to a lower side of the vehicle body floor so as to secure rigidity of the vehicle body and to form the air passage together with the vehicle body floor.