Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Dynalloy, Inc.

Marco A Lopes

Nancy L Johnson

Xiujie Gao

Richard J Skurkis

Anthony L Smith

Kevin B Rober

Nicholas W Pinto

Tyler P Ownby

A thermal bypass valve includes a housing defining a bore along a longitudinal axis and having two inlet ports and two outlet ports; a cap disposed within the bore; a shuttle disposed within the bore and reversibly translatable towards and away from the cap along the longitudinal axis between a first fill position, a cooling position, and a bypass position; and an actuator configured for translating the shuttle along the longitudinal axis between the cooling position and the bypass position. The actuator is formed from a shape memory alloy and is transitionable between a first state and a second state in response to a temperature of the fluid.

Thermal bypass valve

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Marco A Lopes