Patent ID: 9716296
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H01M,Y02E

Claim:
1. A thermal management assembly for a battery pack having opposed major surfaces, the thermal management assembly comprising: a flexible graphite heat spreader having two opposed major surface feces and an in-plane thermal conductivity of at least 300 W/m−K; a first conduit through which a fluid flows; and wherein at least one of said two opposed major surface faces of said flexible graphite heat spreader contacts at least a portion of one of the opposed major surfaces' of a battery cell of said battery pack and the flexible graphite heat spreader having a center segment comprising a curved portion, the curved portion having an inner radius matching an outer radius of a portion of the outer surface of the first conduit, the curved portion contacts the portion of the outer surface of the first conduit, at least one of said two opposed major surface faces of said flexible graphite heat spreader contacts both said opposed major surfaces of said battery cell.