Modularized thermal management
AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.
InventorsUmakanth SAKARAY, Pavan Kumar Reddy KUDUMULA
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Abstract
A thermal management system for an exothermic process includes cooling units, each including a hot coolant port through which coolant heated by the exothermic process flows and a cold coolant port through which the coolant that has been heat reduced by the cooling units flows. A pair of mounting rails have respective interior chambers that are in fluid communication with corresponding coolant ports formed on the respective mounting rails. Conduits interconnect the coolant port of one of the mounting rails to the hot coolant port of each of the cooling units and the coolant port of the other one of the mounting rails to the cold coolant port of each of the cooling units.
Claims20
A thermal management system for an exothermic process comprising:
- cooling units, each including a hot coolant port through which coolant heated by the exothermic process flows and a cold coolant port through which the coolant that has been heat reduced by the cooling units flows;
- a pair of mounting rails having respective interior chambers in fluid communication with corresponding coolant ports formed on the respective mounting rails;
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- conduits constructed to interconnect the coolant port of one of the mounting rails to the hot coolant port of each of the cooling units and the coolant port of the other one of the mounting rails to the cold coolant port of each of the cooling units.
A thermal management system for an exothermic apparatus having a hot coolant port through which heated coolant is delivered to the thermal management system and a cold coolant port through which heat reduced coolant is delivered from the thermal management system, thermal management system comprising:
- cooling units constructed to transfer heat from the heated coolant delivered through the hot coolant port of the exothermic apparatus and to provide the resulting heat reduced coolant to the cold coolant port of the exothermic apparatus;
- a pair of mounting rails constructed to support the cooling units mechanically attached thereto, the mounting rails having respective interior chambers constructed to contain the heated coolant in one of the mounting rails and the heat reduced coolant in the other one of the mounting rails;
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- conduits constructed to interconnect the respective mounting rails to the corresponding hot coolant port and the cold coolant port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.