Heat exchanger for battery cooling

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10553918-B2
Application number	US-201715639199-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2017
Priority date	Jul 4, 2016
Publication date	Feb 4, 2020
Grant date	Feb 4, 2020

Abstract

A heat exchanger for battery cooling is provided to improve an efficiency of cooling of the current heat exchangers. The heat exchanger for battery cooling comprises an upper housing with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a lower housing capable of hermetically connecting with the upper housing to form a chamber for accommodating fluid. The fluid flows into the chamber through the fluid inlet and then exits through the fluid outlet. The fluid chamber is provided with at least one S-shaped fluid directing element with several through holes. With the S-shape directing elements within the fluid chamber and the through holes formed on the directing elements, fluid can flow in an injecting manner within the chamber to realize effective cooling of the upper housing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heat exchanger for battery cooling, comprising:
an upper housing provided with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet;
a lower housing capable of hermetically connecting with the upper housing to form a chamber for receiving fluid, wherein the fluid flows into the chamber through the fluid inlet and exits through the fluid outlet,
wherein at least one fluid directing element, which is provided with a plurality of through holes, is disposed within the chamber, wherein said at least one fluid directing element is configured in S-shape and regularly arranged within the chamber in the fluid flowing direction, and the radius of each through hole is getting smaller in the fluid flowing direction.

2. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 1 , wherein said at least one fluid directing element divides the chamber into alternately arranged fluid converging areas and fluid injecting areas, and wherein the fluid flows into a fluid converging area through the fluid inlet and then is injected into the fluid injecting area through the through holes, and finally exits through the fluid outlet after traveling through all directing elements.

3. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 2 , wherein the upper housing is of plate-shape structure, and the lower housing includes bottom plate and side walls, and thereby forming a cavity structure with an upper opening.

4. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 3 , wherein both the lower housing and said at least one fluid directing elements are made of plastic and molded together into a single piece.

5. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 4 , wherein the upper housing and the lower housing are hermetically connected with each other by means of adhesive or welding.

6. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 5 , wherein the upper housing is made of aluminum plate or heat conductive plastic.

7. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 1 , wherein the heat exchanger for battery cooling is located under battery modules or between battery modules, with the upper housing staying in contact with the battery modules.

8. The heat exchanger for battery cooling according to claim 7 , wherein more than one said heat exchangers can be connected in series or in parallel with each other to form a battery module cooling system.

Assignees

• Nio Nextev Ltd

Inventors

• Ge Zengfang
• Zhang Qi
• Ma Li

Classifications

• H01M10/6568

  characterised by flow circuits, e.g. loops, located externally to the cells or cell casings · CPC title

• H01M10/625

  Vehicles · CPC title

• F28F9/22

  Arrangements for directing heat-exchange media into successive compartments, e.g. arrangements of guide plates · CPC title

• F28F9/0268

  in the form of multiple deflectors for channeling the heat exchange medium · CPC title

• F28F3/12

  Elements constructed in the shape of a hollow panel, e.g. with channels {(F28D1/02, F28D1/03 take precedence)} · CPC title