Battery Coolant Filling and Cleaning for Leak-Checked Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for filling and maintaining battery cooling systems with coolant are complex and require improved handling and implementation.
Innovation Solution
A device combining coolant filling, checking, and cleaning functions, featuring connections, a conveying arrangement, analysis, leakage-checking, and cleaning arrangements, with a control system for simplified operation, including immersion cooling and mobile unit design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate devices are used for filling, checking, and cleaning coolant, then each function can be performed with dedicated equipment, but the overall system complexity increases and handling becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines filling, checking, and cleaning functions into a single integrated device. The device includes a conveying arrangement for introducing coolant, an analysis arrangement for checking coolant quality, and a cleaning arrangement for removing contaminants, all unified in one system that connects to the battery cooling system through two connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs multiple functions simultaneously: it can fill the cooling system with coolant, analyze coolant quality parameters, clean contaminants from the coolant, and detect leakages. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for separate dedicated equipment for each operation.
2Ease of manufacture
If multiple separate operations are performed for filling and maintenance, then each operation can be optimized independently, but the total time and effort required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device enables continuous operation where coolant is conveyed into the system, analyzed for quality, and cleaned in an integrated workflow. The control arrangement coordinates these operations continuously, allowing the system to be filled and maintained in a single uninterrupted process rather than through separate discrete operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The analysis arrangement checks coolant quality during the filling process itself, and the cleaning arrangement is ready to remove contaminants as they are detected. This preliminary and simultaneous action approach prevents the need for separate post-filling inspection and cleaning operations.
3Ease of operation
If coolant quality is not monitored and cleaned, then the system operation is simpler, but undesired electric currents may develop affecting battery performance
Solution Approach 1:
The analysis arrangement continuously monitors coolant quality parameters including electrical conductivity, and provides feedback to the control arrangement. When contaminants or unwanted electric currents are detected, the system automatically activates the cleaning arrangement to remove these harmful factors, maintaining coolant quality without requiring complex manual monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The device enables the cooling system to self-monitor and self-clean. The analysis arrangement detects contaminants and the cleaning arrangement automatically removes them, allowing the system to maintain its own coolant quality without external intervention, thus preventing harmful electric currents from developing.
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AI summary
A device for filling and maintenance of a system with a battery that is cooled by a coolant is disclosed. The device includes a control arrangement that, for a first filling of the system with the coolant: checks a system path for leakages via a leakage-checking arrangement; in the absence of leakage, fills the system with coolant via a coolant reservoir; flushes the system with coolant such that the coolant circulates along the system path through the system and the device; checks a quality of the coolant via an analysis arrangement during flushing, and cleans the coolant via a cleaning arrangement; and completes the first filling when the quality lies above a predetermined value range.