Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Dharmendra Patel

Patrick Daniel Maguire

Saravanan Paramasivam

Philip Michael Gonzales

Douglas X Zhu

Robert Taenaka

Sarav Paramasivam

Kanghua Chen

A vehicle includes a floor, a seat including a back, and a traction battery module located behind the seat. The seat and floor form an air passageway, underneath the seat, from a cabin to the traction battery module. The vehicle also includes a plenum disposed between the air passageway and fraction battery module, and a sealing member fixed to the plenum and configured to engage the back to form a substantially airtight seal therebetween.

Ductless cooling system for a vehicle power storage unit

A system and method for controlling temperature of an energy storage device of a vehicle via a movable device. The method includes determining a set of inputs, the set of inputs including a representative temperature of the energy storage device and a cabin temperature corresponding to an operator cabin. The method further includes generating a control signal based at least in part on the set of inputs, outputting the control signal to the movable device, and modifying a variable rate of movement of the movable device in response to the control signal such that a corresponding variable amount of operator cabin air is moved past the energy storage device.

System and method for controlling temperature of an energy storage device in a vehicle

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Dharmendra Patel