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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2017
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert David Sumpf, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);
Ernest Matthew Villanueva, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Elias Hegeman, San Jose, CA (US);
Satvik Vipin Batavia, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ganesh Ramanarayan Singh, Troy, MI (US);
Alex Prilutsky, Redwood City, CA (US);
Scott Ira Kohn, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bruce Phillip Edwards, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Peter Thomas Tennessen, Oakland, CA (US);
Jayesh Bharat Gorasia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hugh Burnett Ross, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
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.