Electronic/electrical component housing with strips of metal plate and shape memory material forming a heat transfer path

A method for controlling the temperature of a battery in an electric vehicle, the method comprising:

• in response to an ambient temperature of an internal heat source surrounded by a housing increasing beyond a first transition temperature, forming, by a shape memory material plate, a heat transfer path in an internal space between an inner panel and an outer panel formed in a housing for the battery by the shape memory material plate straightening due to the first transition temperature to contact a metal plate extending from an inner surface of the outer panel, and
• in response to the ambient temperature of the internal heat source falling below a second transition temperature, the shape memory material plate bending and separating from the metal plate to interrupt the heat transfer path and provide the battery with heat insulation,
• wherein the metal plate extends from the outer panel,
• wherein the shape memory material plate extends from the inner panel, and
• wherein the metal plate and the shape memory material plate are provided in a plurality of pairs.