US 12,148,944 B2
Battery installation structure for vehicle
Yong Hwan Choi, Seoul (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. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/521,929.
Application 17/521,929 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/028,911, filed on Sep. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,912,120.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0050812 (KR), filed on Apr. 27, 2020; and application No. 10-2021-0030369 (KR), filed on Mar. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0069405 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 50/249 (2021.01); H01M 50/207 (2021.01); H01M 50/242 (2021.01); B60K 1/04 (2019.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.01)
CPC H01M 50/249 (2021.01) [H01M 50/207 (2021.01); H01M 50/242 (2021.01); B60K 1/04 (2013.01); B60L 50/64 (2019.02); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery installation structure for a vehicle, comprising:
a case configured to allow a plurality of battery modules to be mounted in the case; and
a pack end plate mounted so as to form a shock-absorbing space between a wall surface of the case and one end of each of the plurality of battery modules that is parallel to and faces the wall surface, among opposite ends of each of the plurality of battery modules in a stacking direction of battery cells, the shock-absorbing space including a slanted surface slanted with respect to the wall surface;
wherein the pack end plate is formed in a closed cross-sectional structure comprising a vertical support surface formed so as to be in contact with each of the plurality of battery modules and a slanted support surface connected to the vertical support surface so as to form the slanted surface of the shock-absorbing space;
wherein the pack end plate comprises a bottom support surface connected to the vertical support surface and the slanted support surface; and
wherein the bottom support surface is fixed to an upper portion of an inner protruding portion, the inner protruding portion protruding from the wall surface of the case toward each of the plurality of battery modules.