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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2020
Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Gaohua Zhu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Tenghua Tom Shieh, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Evan B. Fleming, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Swetha Minupuri, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Debasish Banerjee, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ryuta Sugiura, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Yusuke Suzuki, Nagakute, JP;
Takayoshi Tanaka, Shimizu-ku, JP;
Satoko Tofukuji, Tokyo, JP;
Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A thermal management system to cool one or more battery packs of a battery system may include a heat pipe arrangement that includes a plurality of heat pipes, having a planar configuration, in thermal contact with the one or more battery packs to draw heat therefrom, and a heat sink arrangement that includes a plurality of heat sinks, in thermal contact with two or more edges of the heat pipe arrangement, to dissipate heat away from the heat pipe arrangement.