The invention relates to the field of batteries, and provides a unit module and a
battery pack. Each unit module comprises at least one soft
package battery cell and a shell
assembly, an accommodating cavity for accommodating each soft
package battery cell is formed in the shell
assembly, and an exhaust hole for communicating the accommodating cavity to the outside is formed in one side, in the height direction of the soft
package battery cell, of the shell
assembly. Based on the structure, a unit module which is regularized, modularized, independent, better in strength and better in rigidity can be formed. No matter the position where
thermal runaway happens to the soft package battery
cell in the shell assembly is located at the tab, the edge sealing position or other positions of the soft package battery
cell, heat and gas discharged by the soft package battery
cell with
thermal runaway are directionally discharged out of the unit module along the exhaust holes. Therefore, the
battery pack can take
thermal runaway protection measures based on directional exhaust path pre-design, the risk / speed of thermal runaway spreading to other unit modules can be reduced when a certain unit module is in thermal runaway, and the safety performance of the
battery pack can be guaranteed and improved.