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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2012
Patrick Jansen, Schenectady, NY (US);
Henry Todd Young, Erie, PA (US);
Patrick Jansen, Schenectady, NY (US);
Henry Todd Young, Erie, PA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An energy storage device that includes a housing, which includes at least one end panel that includes at least one aperture therethrough. The device further includes a battery cell housed in the housing. The battery cell includes mutually opposed first and second faces joined at their edges. The device also includes a heat sink adjacent to the battery cell and in thermal contact with the first face of the battery cell. The heat sink defines at least one cooling medium passage extending parallel to the face of the adjacent battery cell. The cooling medium passage opens onto the at least one aperture formed through the at least one end panel of the housing.