Thermal management for electrified vehicle
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsKevin Mackenzie, Sunil Katragadda, Ronald Richard Semel
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Abstract
A thermal management system for an electrified vehicle and a method for managing such a system, includes a coolant subsystem to cool a battery pack and a refrigerant subsystem. The coolant subsystem includes a battery chiller in fluid communication with a cooling system inlet to the battery pack. The refrigerant subsystem includes a chiller cooling subsystem to cool the battery chiller and a cabin cooling subsystem to cool a passenger cabin, wherein the chiller cooling subsystem and the cabin cooling subsystem are completely separate from each other.
Claims20
A thermal management system for an electrified vehicle, comprising:
- a coolant subsystem cooling a battery pack, the coolant subsystem including a battery chiller in fluid communication with a cooling system inlet to the battery pack, wherein the coolant subsystem circulates a coolant;
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- a refrigerant subsystem including a chiller cooling subsystem to cool the battery chiller and a cabin cooling subsystem to cool a passenger cabin, wherein the refrigerant subsystem circulates a refrigerant, and wherein the chiller cooling subsystem and the cabin cooling subsystem are completely separate from each other such that there is no flow between the chiller cooling subsystem the cabin cooling subsystem.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.