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US 11,440,436 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJunta Katayama
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a housing case, a power storage module provided in the housing case, an electronic device provided in the housing case, an exhaust pipe disposed laterally of the housing case, and a cooling circuit including a cooling pipe through which refrigerant circulates. A portion of the cooling pipe is located between the electronic device and the exhaust pipe.
Claims8
A vehicle comprising:
- a housing case;
- a battery pack provided in the housing case;
- a battery electronic control unit provided in the housing case;
- an exhaust pipe disposed laterally of the housing case;
- and
- at least one cooling pipe through which refrigerant circulates,
- wherein
- a portion of the at least one cooling pipe is located between the battery electronic control unit and the exhaust pipe,
- the at least one cooling pipe comprises:
- a module cooling pipe disposed to face the battery pack and configured to cool the battery pack,
- a device cooling pipe disposed to face the battery electronic control unit and configured to cool the battery electronic control unit, and
- wherein, in a direction in which the refrigerant flows, an expansion valve disposed at an inlet of the module cooling pipe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.