US 12,308,408 B2Granted

Battery cooling plate

AssigneeModine Manufacturing Company

InventorsVictor Aiello, Kyle Shisler, Frances Kis

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Abstract

A battery cooling plate includes at least one planar heat transfer surface that is bounded by four edges. A coolant inlet port and a coolant outlet port are both arranged along a first one of the edges, and a coolant flow path extends through the battery cooling plate adjacent to the at least one planar heat transfer surface between the coolant inlet port and the coolant outlet port. The coolant flow path includes a first portion that extends along the entire length of a second, third, and fourth edge of the at least one planar heat transfer surface. The coolant flow path further includes a second portion that is arranged downstream of the first portion. The second portion of the coolant flow path is separated from the second, third, and fourth edges of the planar heat transfer surface by the first portion of the coolant flow path.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A coolant heat exchanger comprising:

first and second planar walls that are spaced apart to define a coolant volume therebetween;
at least two turbulating inserts arranged within the coolant volume;
and
a coolant flow path extending through the coolant volume and extending through the at least two turbulating inserts along at least three sides of an outer periphery of the coolant volume,
wherein each of the at least two turbulating inserts is permeable to fluid flow in a low-pressure-drop direction and in a high-pressure-drop direction, the high-pressure-drop direction being oriented perpendicular to the low-pressure-drop direction, and wherein the low-pressure-drop direction of a first one of the at least two turbulating inserts is aligned with the high-pressure-drop direction of at least one of any remaining turbulating inserts of the at least two turbulating inserts, and
wherein the first one of the at least two turbulating inserts has a shape and the remaining turbulating inserts of the at least two turbulating inserts form a void corresponding to the shape of the first one of the at least two turbulating inserts into which the first one of the at least two turbulating inserts is arranged.

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A coolant heat exchanger comprising:

first and second walls that are spaced apart to define a coolant volume therebetween;
at least two turbulating inserts arranged within the coolant volume;
and
a coolant flow path extending through the coolant volume and extending through the at least two turbulating inserts along at least three sides of an outer periphery of the coolant volume,
wherein a first one of the at least two turbulating inserts has a trapezoidal shape and any remaining turbulating inserts of the at least two turbulating inserts form a trapezoidal void corresponding to the trapezoidal shape of the first one of the at least two turbulating inserts, and wherein the first one of the at least two turbulating inserts is arranged in the trapezoidal void.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/656,001Filed 6 May 2024 · continuation
Priority: 10 Aug 2018
Published: US 2024/0291066 A129 Aug 2024
Granted: 20 May 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

H01M 10/6554
Solid structures for heat exchange or heat conduction: rods or plates
F28D 1/0333
The plates having lateral openings therein for circulation of the heat-exchange medium from one conduit to another: the plates having integrated…
F28D 1/0341
The plates having integrated connecting members: with U-flow or serpentine-flow inside the conduits
F28F 3/027
The means being corrugated, plate-like elements: with openings, e.g. louvered corrugated fins; Assemblies of corrugated strips

Family

Application62/717,088Us provisional application · filed 10 Aug 2018
PCT/US2019/043028Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jul 2019
US 2024/0291066 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Aug 2024
Application17/260,782Parent of this continuation
US 12,009,495 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0280927 A1Published application
US 12,308,408 B2This patent

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