Tesla, Inc.

Tesla Motors, Inc.

Satvik Vipin Batavia

Scott Ira Kohn

Bruce P Edwards

Ernest Matthew Villanueva

Peter Thomas Tennessen

Alex Prilutsky

David Elias Hegeman

Ganesh Ramanarayan Singh

Robert David Sumpf, Jr

Hugh Burnett Ross

Jayesh Bharat Gorasia

Robert D Sumpf

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

A method includes: assembling a thermal-exchange tube in a module housing for an energy storage pack; assembling cells in the module housing, wherein the thermal-exchange tube runs between rows of the cells; applying an adhesive that affixes the cells and the thermal-exchange tube to the module housing; curing a first portion of the adhesive by radiation, wherein a second portion of the adhesive is shielded from the radiation by the cells or the thermal-exchange tube; and curing at least the second portion of the adhesive by a chemical cure mechanism.

Cell module assemblies

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Satvik Vipin Batavia