Curable Composition for Thermal Management of Heating Elements

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies face challenges in uniformly maintaining temperature and preventing the spread of abnormal heat, explosions, or fires in products composed of multiple heating elements.

Innovation Solution

A curable composition that exhibits latent heat in a predetermined temperature range, allowing for efficient heat management and uniform temperature maintenance in products with multiple heating elements, while also minimizing the impact of abnormal heat events on adjacent elements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If a material with excellent thermal conductivity is used to discharge heat, then heat dissipation efficiency is improved, but the ability to maintain uniform temperature and prevent heat propagation to adjacent elements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat dissipation efficiencyVSAvoidheat propagation to adjacent elements
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different thermal property regions within the same thermal management material. The material comprises a first region with first thermal properties and a second region with second thermal properties, where the thermal properties differ between regions. This allows the material to simultaneously conduct heat away from heat-generating elements while maintaining uniform temperature distribution and preventing heat propagation to adjacent elements, resolving the contradiction between heat dissipation efficiency and heat isolation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Temperature

If cooling media or heat dissipation materials are applied, then heat treatment capability is improved, but the ability to maintain uniform temperature across multiple heating elements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveheat treatment capabilityVSAvoiduniform temperature maintenance
Core Design Contradiction:
TemperatureVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the thermal property parameters of the thermal management material by creating multiple regions with different thermal properties. The first region has thermal properties optimized for heat dissipation, while the second region has thermal properties optimized for temperature uniformity maintenance. This parameter differentiation allows the material to simultaneously achieve effective heat treatment and uniform temperature distribution across multiple heating elements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If thermal management materials are used to prevent abnormal heat events, then safety is improved, but the material complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety against abnormal heat eventsVSAvoidmaterial structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a composite thermal management material structure consisting of multiple regions with different thermal properties. This composite structure integrates heat dissipation functionality and heat isolation functionality within a single material system, providing safety against abnormal heat events such as chain ignition or explosion while maintaining reasonable structural organization rather than using multiple separate components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The curable composition effectively controls heat and maintains uniform temperatures in products with multiple heating elements, while preventing the propagation of abnormal heat events, and does so stably over a long period.

Implementation Method 1

A curable composition that exhibits latent heat in a predetermined temperature range

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLatent heat: Latent Heat

Implementation Method 2

a method of discharging the heat generated from the product to the outside using a material with an excellent thermal conductivity

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectThermal conduction: Conduction (thermal)

Data Source

PatentUS20250129235A1Curable Composition
Publication Date: 2025.04.24 LG CHEM LTD
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AI summary

A curable composition and a use thereof. As the curable composition is applied to a product that generates heat during the driving or maintenance process, it is possible to provide a curable composition that can be used as a material capable of treating the heat. The curable composition is applied to a product in which a plurality of elements generating heat are integrated, whereby it can efficiently treat the heat generated by the element while maintaining a uniform temperature of the product. In addition, even when the abnormal heat, explosion or ignition occurs in any one of the plurality of elements, the curable composition is applied to such a product, so that the effect of such heat, explosion or ignition to other adjacent elements can be prevented or minimized. The curable composition of the present application can also stably perform such a function over a long period of time.