Cooling modes to manage a high voltage battery for a vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAngel Fernando Porras, Mark G. Smith, Neil Robert Burrows, Bo Wu
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Abstract
A vehicle climate control system includes a cooling system including a chiller, a coolant circuit, a refrigerant circuit, a pump, and a compressor. The coolant circuit bypasses the chiller. The refrigerant circuit incorporates the chiller. The pump is configured to move coolant through the coolant circuit. The compressor is configured to move refrigerant through the refrigerant circuit. The vehicle climate control system also includes a controller configured to, in response to a temperature of a battery exceeding a threshold while the pump is moving fluid through the coolant circuit, activate the chiller and the compressor.
Claims4
A vehicle comprising:
- a traction battery;
- a thermal management system including:
- a coolant circuit comprising a radiator, a chiller, a first valve, and a pump configured to move coolant through the coolant circuit by selectively incorporating one of the radiator and chiller based on a position of the first valve, and
- a refrigerant circuit comprising the chiller, an evaporator, a condenser, a second valve, a third valve, and a compressor configured to move refrigerant through the refrigerant circuit by selectively incorporating one of the chiller and evaporator based on positions of the second and third valves;
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- a controller programmed to:
- in response to a temperature of the coolant traversing a threshold resulting in a battery temperature adjustment demand while the position of the first valve is such that the coolant circuit incorporates the radiator and bypasses the chiller, re-positioning the first valve such that the coolant circuit bypasses the radiator and incorporates the chiller, and
- in response to the temperature exceeding another threshold resulting in a battery temperature adjustment demand while the position of the second and third valves is such that the refrigerant circuit incorporates the evaporator and bypasses the chiller, re-positioning the second and third valves such that the refrigerant circuit bypasses the evaporator and incorporates the chiller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.