Tesla, Inc.

Jayesh Bharat Gorasia

David Elias Hegeman

Robert David Sumpf, Jr

William B Stockton

Krupal Patel

Dan Burke

Benjamin Parker

Dafna Gabriela Szafer

Andrew Pires

Cole Prodan

Cole Spooner

Kenton Harris

Scott Ira Kohn

Bruce P Edwards

Ernest Matthew Villanueva

Peter Thomas Tennessen

Alex Prilutsky

Hugh Burnett Ross

Ganesh Ramanarayan Singh

Satvik Vipin Batavia

An integrated, unitary battery pack may be formed and used as part of the structural support for a vehicle frame. The unitary battery pack includes arrays cells having all positive and negative electrical terminals aligned in-plane on a common face of the product assembly. The unitary battery pack includes cooling components for passively or actively cooling the cell arrays. The unitary battery pack is encased in a potting material that allows that forms part of the structure support for the unitary battery pack. The unitary batter pack may be integrated into the vehicle with or without additional support structures.

Integrated energy storage system

An energy storage pack includes a coolant inlet manifold, a coolant outlet manifold, and a plurality of thermal-exchange tubes extending between the coolant inlet manifold and the coolant outlet manifold to exchange heat between coolant passing through the plurality of thermal-exchange tubes and a plurality of battery cells mounted adjacent to and among the plurality of thermal-exchange tubes within the energy storage pack. In one embodiment, at least one of coolant inlet manifold and the coolant outlet manifold includes a plurality of thermal-exchange tube terminating structures and a plurality of hose segments intercoupling the plurality of thermal-exchange tube terminating structures. The energy storage pack may further include a coolant inlet opening located on the coolant inlet manifold and a coolant outlet opening located on the coolant outlet manifold.

Energy storage pack

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Jayesh Bharat Gorasia