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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Keisuke Shimizu, Osaka, JP;
Shinya Motokawa, Osaka, JP;
Daisuke Kishii, Osaka, JP;
Akira Takano, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A battery module includes a plurality of cylindrical batteries that each include a safety valve surrounded by an annular breaking portion configured to break when internal pressure of each of the batteries exceeds a predetermined level. The battery module further includes an exhaust duct to guide gas emitted from the cylindrical battery to outside the module when safety valve is opened, and a gas direction regulator component disposed between the cylindrical batteries and the exhaust duct. The gas direction regulator component has a plurality of openings to expose the respective safety valves. Portions of the gas direction regulator component overhang areas overlapping the respective safety valves so as to cover an end of each safety valve opposite another end of each safety valve adjacent to an exit of the exhaust duct.