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US 2025/0096345 A1Published application
Traction battery pack thermal management system and thermal management method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorXiaogang Zhang
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Abstract
A traction battery pack includes an enclosure assembly, a cell stack housed within the enclosure assembly and at least partially submerged within a coolant, and a vent manifold that receives vent byproducts from the cell stack. The vent manifold is housed within the enclosure assembly and at least partially submerged within the coolant.
Claims19
A traction battery pack, comprising:
- an enclosure assembly;
- a cell stack housed within the enclosure assembly and at least partially submerged within a coolant;
- and
- a vent manifold that receives vent byproducts from the cell stack, the vent manifold housed within the enclosure assembly and at least partially submerged within the coolant.
1 more element
A method of managing thermal energy within a battery pack, comprising:
- directing a coolant through an enclosure assembly to manage thermal energy within a cell stack that is housed within and interior area of the enclosure assembly, the cell stack at least partially submerged within the coolant;
- and
- establish a vent path for vent byproducts to move from the cell stack to an area outside the interior area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.