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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2011
Sai K. Pentapati, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Bhaskara Boddakayala, Canton, MI (US);
Vineeth Seshadri Kallur, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Patrick Daniel Maguire, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Steven F. Chorian, Canton, MI (US);
Josephine S. Lee, Novi, MI (US);
Edward Vann Decker, Dearborn, MI (US);
Sai K. Pentapati, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Bhaskara Boddakayala, Canton, MI (US);
Vineeth Seshadri Kallur, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Patrick Daniel Maguire, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Steven F. Chorian, Canton, MI (US);
Josephine S. Lee, Novi, MI (US);
Edward Vann Decker, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A cooling system may be operable to cool a battery pack or other device through a heat exchange operation supported, at least in part, with cycling of a coolant relative to a coldplate or other thermally conducting surface of the device and/or attached thereto. The system may include a coldplate operable to exchange heat with a battery pack; and a coolant tank operable to exchange heat with the coldplate, the tank having a channel for directing a coolant flow in a direction from an inlet of the tank to at least one outlet of the tank and an inlet accumulator between the inlet and a beginning of the channel, wherein the inlet accumulator is wider along the coolant flow direction than the channel and the inlet and having a sloped side leading towards the channel configured to pool the coolant flow prior to entry into the channel.