Patent ID: 9728823
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Claim:
1. A battery for a vehicle, comprising: a housing; a plurality of battery cells arranged in the housing and spaced from one another in a horizontal direction ; a separator configured to form side walls and a horizontal bottom plate of the housing and to insulate the battery cells from one another, said separator being a single-piece component with said side walls and said bottom plate being of one piece with each other, and said bottom plate being provided with passages spaced from one another in the horizontal direction and located under the battery cells and open upwardly towards the battery cells; cooling devices each including a profile part through which a coolant flows, with each of the profile parts of each of the cooling devices being received in one of the passages of the bottom plate under the battery cells and configured to remove heat from the battery cells; and a material introduced in each of the passages of the bottom plate between the bottom plate and the profile part of each of the cooling devices and under the profile part of each of the cooling devices and having in a basic state a first volume and in an expanded state a volume which is greater than the first volume so that the profile part of each of the cooling devices and thereby each of the cooling devices as a whole is pressed upwardly against the battery cells as the material in the passages of the bottom plate under the cooling devices changes to the expanded state.