ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,996, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle heat exchange" was invented by Xiaogang Zhang (Novi, Mich.), Richard K Werth (Milan, Mich.) and Mark Meinhart (Dexter, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery chiller for a vehicle includes a housing having a first inlet, a second inlet opposing the first inlet, a first outlet having a toroid structure surrounding the second inlet, and a second outlet having a toroid structure surrounding the first inlet. A lattice is disposed within the housing defining a first plurality of channels and a second plurality of channels. The lattice de...