Electronic Control Unit with Separable Cooling and Memory Modules
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsFalk Rademacher, Martin Bornemann, Peter Reinhold
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Abstract
An electronic control unit (ECU) with separable cooling and memory modules is described. The cooling module has an integrated liquid cooling circuit with a direct connection to the cooling circuit. The memory module includes an independent memory that can store data and be tested independent of the cooling module. The cooling module and the memory module contact at thermal contact surfaces to enable cooling when installed in a vehicle. In this way, the cooling module may provide cooling through the thermal contact surface to one or more memory modules and the memory module may be implemented without an internal cooling system.
Claims1
An electronic control unit (ECU) comprising:
- a memory module;
- and
- a cooling module including:
- a first electrical connection;
- a housing;
- a liquid-cooling circuit;
- and
- a first thermal-contact surface in thermal connection with the liquid-cooling circuit,
- wherein:
- the first thermal-contact surface is configured to contact a second thermal-contact surface of the memory module to provide thermal connection between the liquid-cooling circuit and the memory module,
- the housing is independent of a housing of the memory module,
- the cooling module is configured to be separable from the memory module without emptying liquid from the liquid-cooling circuit,
- the cooling module is separable from the memory module through one or more physical-connection elements, and
- the first electrical connection is configured to communicatively couple the memory module through a second electrical connection of the memory module to provide electrical communication between the cooling module and the memory module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.