Patent ID: 7851080
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A product comprising a battery cooling plate having an outlet opening communicating with a plurality of exit channels and a plurality of inlet channels communicating with an inlet opening and a serpentine shaped cooling flow path communicating with the plurality of exit channels and the plurality of inlet channels, the cooling flow path including a first cooling segment and an adjacent upstream second cooling segment, and a third cooling segment upstream of the second cooling segment, wherein the second cooling segment comprises at least a first cooling channel and a second cooling channel and at least a first land interposed between the first cooling channel and second cooling channel, wherein the second cooling segment has at least one more land and one more channel than the first cooling segment, and wherein the third cooling segment has at least one more land and one more channel than the second cooling segment, wherein the plurality of exit channels are located downstream the first cooling segment and communicate with the first cooling segment, and wherein the plurality of exit channels comprises a number of individual channels that is greater than the number of individual cooling channels of the first cooling segment.