US 11,855,269 B2
Battery module
Sun Mo An, Daejeon (KR); Ji Eun Kang, Daejeon (KR); Sang Hyun Lee, Daejeon (KR); and Hae Ryong Jeon, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to SK On Co., Ltd., Seoul (KR)
Filed by SK On Co., Ltd., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/463,843.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0112905 (KR), filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0077519 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H01M 10/653 (2014.01); H01M 50/505 (2021.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01)
CPC H01M 10/653 (2015.04) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 50/505 (2021.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery module, comprising:
a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked;
a module case for accommodating the battery cell stack therein; and
a bus bar assembly disposed between the module case and the battery cell stack and electrically connected to the battery cells,
wherein the bus bar assembly comprises at least one bus bar having a plurality of through slits to which electrode leads of the battery cells are coupled, and
a thermal conduction unit for covering the at least one bus bar therein,
wherein the through slit and a periphery of the through slit are exposed to the outside of the thermal conduction unit, and the remaining portion of the at least one bus bar is covered in the thermal conduction unit, and
wherein the thermal conduction unit is formed of a resin material containing a thermally conductive filler.