A vehicle traction battery assembly including an array of battery cells, a thermal plate, and a magnetic valve assembly. The thermal plate may be thermal communication with the array and define a flow field therein. The magnetic valve assembly may selectively output a magnetic field to tune a viscosity of magnetic coolant within a vicinity of the magnetic field and flowing within the flow field to promote or inhibit the flowing within the flow field. The flow field may include first and second channels and the magnetic valve assembly may further selectively output the magnetic field to tune the viscosity such that the magnetic coolant flows through the second channel and not the first channel.
Magnetically Controlled Traction Battery Thermal Plate
2017-12-07
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60L PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES , Antrieb von elektrisch angetriebenen Fahrzeugen / H01M Verfahren oder Mittel, z.B. Batterien, für die direkte Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie , PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY |