Patent ID: 11870047
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle comprising:
a traction battery including a plurality of cells arranged in arrays and grouped into a plurality of cooling zones;
a thermal management system including a plurality of distinct circuits each associated with one of the zones, wherein the thermal management system is configured to provide individual heating or cooling to each of the circuits to independently control temperatures of the zones; and
a controller programmed to, in response to one of the zones exceeding a first threshold temperature and another of the zones being less than a second threshold temperature at a same time, simultaneously command the thermal management system to provide (i) cooling to the circuit associated with the one of the zones and (ii) heating to the circuit associated with the another of the zones.