Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Richard K Werth

Mark Meinhart

Xiaogang Zhang

Yamini Yedetore

Jeremy Santiago

A thermal management structure for a battery pouch of a vehicle battery pack includes a plurality of walls. The plurality of walls include a pair of outer walls and an intermediate wall. Each outer wall is in a heat transfer relationship with a respective outer side of the battery pouch. The intermediate wall is disposed between the pair of outer walls and is in a heat transfer relationship with an inner side of the battery pouch. Each of the outer walls includes a first lattice structure and the intermediate wall includes a second lattice structure.

Thermal management structure for battery array

A battery chiller for a vehicle includes a housing having a first inlet, a second inlet opposing the first inlet, a first outlet having a toroid structure surrounding the second inlet, and a second outlet having a toroid structure surrounding the first inlet. A lattice is disposed within the housing defining a first plurality of channels and a second plurality of channels. The lattice defines a first inlet duct in fluid communication with the first inlet and the first channels, and a second inlet duct in fluid communication with the second inlet and the second channels. A first flow path is defined from the first inlet, through the first inlet duct, through the first plurality of channels and to the first outlet, and a second flow path is defined from the second inlet, through the second inlet duct, through the second plurality of channels and to the second outlet.

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