US 11,641,039 B2Granted

Vehicle battery temperature control apparatus

AssigneeSubaru Corporation

InventorsToshiyuki Hara, Yutaka Yokoyama, Yutaka Sakakura

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Abstract

A vehicle battery temperature control apparatus includes a battery temperature detector, first and second ducts, an exhaust pipe, a heat receiver, a blower fan, and a processor. The processor causes the blower fan to rotate in one of opposite directions, thereby introducing cooling air from the first duct into a battery compartment, and emitting the cooling air that has cooled a battery to the outside via the second duct, if the battery temperature is higher than a first set temperature, and causes the blower fan to rotate in the other direction, thereby introducing air raised in temperature by exchanging heat with the exhaust pipe through the heat receiver from the second duct into the battery compartment, and emitting the air that has raised the temperature of the battery to the outside via the first duct, if the battery temperature is lower than a second set temperature.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A vehicle battery temperature control apparatus configured to control temperature of a battery housed in a battery compartment of a vehicle provided with a prime mover, the vehicle battery temperature control apparatus comprising:

a battery temperature detector configured to detect the temperature of the battery;
a first duct configured to fluidly connect the battery compartment and outside;
a second duct separate from the first duct and configured to fluidly connect the battery compartment and the outside, the second duct including a first end and a second end opposite to the first end;
an exhaust pipe configured to allow exhaust gas emitted from the prime mover to flow therethrough;
a heat receiver provided in an intermediate region between the first end and the second end of the second duct and configured to receive heat generated from the exhaust pipe;
a blower fan capable of changing a blowing direction of air flowing to exchange heat with the battery;
a battery temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the battery;
an arithmetic control unit that determines a rotation direction of the blower fan based on temperature information detected by the battery temperature detection unit,
the arithmetic control unit outputs an instruction to rotate the blower fan in a first direction if the battery temperature detected by the battery temperature detection unit is higher than a predetermined first set temperature,
wherein if the battery temperature detected by the battery detection unit is lower than a predetermined second set temperature, an instruction to rotate the blower fan in a second direction opposite to the first direction is output;
and
a battery temperature control device for the vehicle, comprising the arithmetic control unit for controlling the battery temperature.

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a battery temperature detector configured to detect the temperature of the battery;
a first duct configured to fluidly connect the battery compartment and outside;
a second duct separate from the first duct and configured to fluidly connect the battery compartment and the outside, the second duct having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end;
an exhaust pipe configured to allow exhaust gas emitted from the prime mover to flow therethrough;
a heat receiver provided in an intermediate region between the first end and the second end of the second duct and configured to receive heat generated from the exhaust pipe;
a blower fan configured to rotate in a first direction, thereby introducing cooling air from the first duct into the battery compartment, and emitting the cooling air that has cooled the battery by exchanging heat with the battery to the outside via the second duct, and configured to rotate in a second direction, thereby introducing air raised in temperature by exchanging heat with the exhaust pipe through the heat receiver from the second duct into the battery compartment, and emitting the air that has raised the temperature of the battery to the outside via the first duct, the second direction being a direction opposite to the first direction;
a processor configured to cause the blower fan to rotate in the first direction in a case where the temperature of the battery is higher than a predetermined first set temperature, and to cause the blower fan to rotate in the second direction in a case where the temperature of the battery is lower than a predetermined second set temperature;
and
a heat radiator disposed in the intermediate region of the second duct and including a material having higher thermal conductivity than a material included in the second duct.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/345,805Filed 11 Jun 2021
Priority: JP JP2020-12668027 Jul 2020
Published: US 2022/0029219 A127 Jan 2022
Granted: 2 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H01M 10/63
Heating or cooling; Temperature control: control systems
H01M 10/486
Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte:…
H01M 10/613
Types of temperature control: cooling or keeping cold
H01M 10/625
Specially adapted for specific applications: vehicles