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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Josef L. Miler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander J. Clarabut, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mujeeb I. Ijaz, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Jonathan Hall, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Luke A. Wilhelm, Sausalito, CA (US);
Abraham B. Caulk, San Jose, CA (US);
Dirk E. Long, Denver, CO (US);
Yu-Hung Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Battery packs are presented. The battery packs include a plurality of cell blocks, each cell block comprising a plurality of battery cells. The battery pack also includes a plenum chamber configured to fluidly couple each of the cell blocks to an exterior of the battery pack in response to a thermal event in the battery cell in a separate cell block. In some embodiments, at least one of the cell blocks is configured to be fluidly coupled to the plenum structure via a cell block vent.