Traction battery thermal management method and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9728826-B2
Application number	US-201514732042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 5, 2015
Priority date	Jun 5, 2015
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

An exemplary method includes circulating a fluid through a heat exchanger and a battery pack when the battery pack requires cooling, and circulating the fluid through an exhaust gas heat recovery device and the battery pack when the battery pack requires heating. An exemplary system includes a battery pack, a heat exchanger, an exhaust gas heat recovery device, and a fluid valve moveable to a cooling position that permits a fluid to circulate between the heat exchanger and the battery pack and a heating position that permits the fluid to circulate between the exhaust gas heat recovery device and the battery pack.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method, comprising:
circulating a fluid through a heat exchanger and a battery pack when the battery pack requires cooling; and
circulating the fluid through an EGHR device and the battery pack when the battery pack requires heating.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising directing an exhaust gas from an engine through the EGHR device when the battery pack requires heating, and bypassing the exhaust gas from the engine around the EGHR device when the battery pack requires cooling.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising circulating the fluid through the EGHR device when the battery pack requires cooling.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising bypassing the fluid around the heat exchanger when the battery pack requires heating.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising powering a drive wheel of an electrified vehicle using power from the battery pack.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising removing thermal energy from the fluid at the heat exchanger when the battery pack requires cooling.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising adding thermal energy to the fluid at the EGHR device when the battery pack requires heating.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising heating the EGHR device with an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the fluid is a liquid.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the heat exchanger is a radiator.

11. An system, comprising
a battery pack;
a heat exchanger;
an EGHR device; and
a fluid valve moveable to a cooling position that permits a fluid to circulate between the heat exchanger and the battery pack and a heating position that permits the fluid to circulate between the EGHR device and the battery pack.

12. The system of claim 11 , further comprising a gas valve moveable to a recovery position that directs an exhaust gas to flow through the EGHR device when the fluid valve is in the heating position and a bypass position that directs the exhaust gas to bypass around the EGHR device when the fluid valve is in the cooling position.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the flow moves through the EGHR device when the fluid valve is in the cooling position.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the flow bypasses around the heat exchanger when the fluid valve is in the heating position.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the battery pack is a traction battery pack that powers a drive wheel of an electrified vehicle.

16. The system of claim 11 , further comprising an internal combustion engine that provide the exhaust gas.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the heat exchanger is configured to communicate thermal energy from the fluid when the fluid valve is in the cooling position.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein the EGHR device is configured to communicate thermal energy to the fluid when the fluid valve is in the heating position.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the heat exchanger is a radiator.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Lear Christopher Alan
• Revach Sam
• Thompson Scott James
• Hasse Robert

Classifications

• B60K1/04

  of the electric storage means for propulsion · CPC title

• B60K2001/005

  the electric storage means · CPC title

• H01M10/615

  Heating or keeping warm · CPC title

• H01M10/625 Primary

  Vehicles · CPC title

• H01M10/663

  the system being an air-conditioner or an engine · CPC title