Patent ID: 11870049
Assignee: THE TORO COMPANY
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A battery assembly comprising:
a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell having two cell ends and a cell wall extending in an axial direction between the two cell ends, wherein the cell wall comprises an exterior cell surface, wherein a positive terminal of the battery cell is located at one of the two cell ends and a negative terminal of the battery cell is located at another of the two cell ends; and
a plurality of thermal storage devices, each thermal storage device defining one or more cell receiving spaces for receiving the one or more battery cells, each thermal storage device in contact with at least a portion of the exterior cell surface of at least one battery cell, each thermal storage device having a contact surface for receiving the at least one battery cell, wherein the contact surface is configured to contact at least a portion of the exterior cell surface of the at least one battery cell, the contact surface comprising a solid material having a thermal conductivity of at least 0.1 and less than 1.0 W/(m·K); and
wherein the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of thermal storage devices are in a lattice arrangement, wherein at least a portion of the exterior cell surface of each of the battery cells is in contact with at least one of the thermal storage devices, and wherein the battery assembly defines air gaps between neighboring thermal storage devices in the lattice arrangement.