BATTERY PACKS FOR ELECTRIFIED VEHICLES DESIGNED WITH SAVOR COMPONENTS

摘要

A battery pack includes a housing assembly, a sensitive battery component housed within the housing assembly, and a sacrificial battery component packaged outside the housing assembly. The sacrificial battery component includes a predefined vulnerability that is configured to minimize the transmission of impact loads into the housing assembly. The sacrificial battery component may plastically deform and break at the predefined vulnerability in response to an impact load event exceeding a predefined load threshold of the predefined vulnerability.