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

Claim 5:
6. 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,
a heating loop,
a cooling loop, and
a plurality of valves each associated with one of the circuits and each valve having a first inlet connected to the heating loop, a second inlet connected to the cooling loop, and an outlet connected to the associated circuit; 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, (i) command the thermal management system to provide cooling to the circuit associated with the one of the zones and, simultaneously, (ii) command the thermal management system to provide heating to the circuit associated with the another of the zones.