Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
发明人:
ZHOU Feng,Dede Ercan Mehmet
申请号:
US201514931525
公开号:
US2017125866(A1)
申请日:
2015.11.03
申请国别(地区):
美国
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要:
A thermally managed electrical supply unit is provided. The unit contains an energy unit comprising a battery or a battery pack; a casing of a porous thermally conductive framework comprising a phase change material on at least one surface of the energy unit; at least one heat flux rectifier unit on the thermally conductive framework casing; wherein a surface of the heat flux rectifier opposite to the PF/PCM casing is subject to cooling. Also provided is a method for thermal management of an energy unit comprising absorption of heat from the energy unit within a phase change material, transfer of the heat energy from the phase change material through a heat flux rectifier and removal of the heat transferred across the heat flux rectifier. The flow of heat across the heat flux rectifier is irreversible and the heat flux rectifier acts as an on/off switch to control the heat flow.