Motor vehicles – Power – With means to guide and/or control air for power plant cooling
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-11
2006-04-11
Restifo, Jeff (Department: 3618)
Motor vehicles
Power
With means to guide and/or control air for power plant cooling
C180S068500
Reexamination Certificate
active
07025159
ABSTRACT:
A cooling system for a battery in a vehicle does not use air from the vehicle passenger compartment, but rather, takes in ambient air from outside the vehicle. When the temperature of the ambient air outside the vehicle is low enough, the air is moved through a duct system by a pair of fans and blown across a battery assembly. When the temperature of the ambient air outside the vehicle is too warm to cool the battery directly, it is first passed through an evaporator coil where it exchanges heat with a refrigerant, prior to being blown across the battery assembly. The cooling air may be recirculated across the battery assembly, or exhausted from the vehicle through an air extractor.
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Castellano James
Madhavan Ranganathan
Maguire Patrick Daniel
Mathews Jacob
Smith Mark
Brooks & Kushman P.C.
Ford Global Technologies LLC
Kelley David B.
Restifo Jeff
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