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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10333184 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2015

Heat flux assembly for an energy storage device

Applicant:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kristopher John Frutschy, Clifton Park, NY (US);

James S. Lindsey, Schenectady, NY (US);

David Charles Bogdan, Jr., Charlton, NY (US);

James Thorpe Browell, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);

Patrick Daniel Willson, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Amin Ajdari, Albany, NY (US);

Narayan Subramanian, Schenectady, NY (US);

Michael Stanley Zanoni, Glens Falls, NY (US);

Lukas Mercer Hansen, Niskayuna, NY (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);

Attorney:

Dority & Manning, P.A.

Primary Examiner:

Barbara L Gilliam

Assistant Examiner:

Adam A Arciero

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/627 (2014.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/6568 (2014.01); H01M 10/6554 (2014.01); H01M 10/6569 (2014.01); H01M 10/6572 (2014.01); H01M 10/63 (2014.01); H01M 10/615 (2014.01); H01M 2/10 (2006.01); H01M 10/653 (2014.01); H01M 10/6556 (2014.01); H01M 10/6571 (2014.01); H01M 10/617 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/627 (2015.04); H01M 2/1077 (2013.01); H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/615 (2015.04); H01M 10/617 (2015.04); H01M 10/63 (2015.04); H01M 10/653 (2015.04); H01M 10/6554 (2015.04); H01M 10/6556 (2015.04); H01M 10/6568 (2015.04); H01M 10/6569 (2015.04); H01M 10/6571 (2015.04); H01M 10/6572 (2015.04); H01M 2220/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to a heat flux assembly for an energy storage device. The energy storage device includes a housing with a plurality of side walls that define an internal volume and a plurality of cells configured within the internal volume. The heat flux assembly includes a plurality of heat flux components configured for arrangement with the side walls of the housing of the energy storage device and one or more temperature sensors configured with each of the plurality of heat flux components. Thus, the temperature sensors are configured to monitor one or more temperatures at various locations in the plurality of heat flux components. The heat flux assembly also includes a controller configured to adjust a power level of each of the heat flux components as a function of the monitored temperature so as to reduce a temperature gradient or difference across the plurality of cells during operation of the energy storage device.

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