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US 2015/0318588 A1Published application
Method and system for automotive battery cooling
AssigneeThermoTek, Inc.
InventorTony Quisenberry
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Abstract
A battery-cooling system includes a battery array and a plurality of heat pipes that each include a low-profile extrusion having a plurality of hollow tubes formed therein. A heat transfer fluid is disposed in the plurality of hollow tubes. Each heat pipe includes an evaporator portion and a condenser portion. The evaporator portion is disposed between successive batteries within the battery array and the condenser portion is disposed outside of the battery array and exposed to a heat sink.
Claims5
A method of cooling a battery array, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of heat pipes, each heat pipe of the plurality of heat pipes comprising a low-profile extrusion having a plurality of hollow tubes formed therein, each heat pipe of the plurality of heat pipes comprising an evaporator portion and a condenser portion;
- placing the evaporator portion between successive batteries within the battery array;
- arranging each heat pipe of the plurality of heat pipes to maximize thermal exposure of the evaporator portion to the successive batteries;
- conducting heat into the evaporator portion from the battery array;
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- discharging the heat from the condenser portion to a heat sink.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.