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US 2015/0144314 A1Published application
Coupling for electric vehicle battery pack
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsGiriraj Srinivassan, Neil Robert Burrows, James McManaman
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Abstract
An example coupling for an electric vehicle battery pack includes an attachment member configured to connect to a cold plate, a fluid inlet extending from the attachment member, and a fluid outlet extending from the attachment member.
Claims18
A coupling for an electric vehicle battery pack, comprising:
- an attachment member configured to connect to a cold plate;
- a fluid inlet extending from the attachment member;
- and
- a fluid outlet extending from the attachment member.
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An assembly for an electric vehicle battery pack, comprising:
- a cold plate extension providing both a portion of a fluid inlet conduit to a cold plate and a portion of a fluid outlet conduit to the cold plate;
- and
- a coupling including an attachment member, a fluid inlet, and a fluid outlet, the cold plate extension and the coupling selectively attached to each other to communicate fluid to and from the cold plate.
A method of communicating fluid to and from a cold plate of an electric vehicle, comprising:
- communicating fluid from a coupling to a cold plate extension;
- communicating fluid from the cold plate extension to the coupling;
- and
- redirecting the fluid within an attachment member of the coupling.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.