Flowguide Grille with Vertical Guide Vanes for Uniform Battery Cooling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current energy storage devices face uneven air distribution and insufficient heat dissipation due to floor-mounted air conditioners with outlets lower than the battery assembly, leading to significant temperature differences and impaired device operation.
Innovation Solution
A flowguide grille with adjustable guide vanes and a mounting bracket is mounted on the air conditioner to expand the air outlet range vertically, ensuring uniform air distribution and improved heat dissipation by guiding cold air to higher positions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Temperature
If the air conditioner is floor mounted with a low air outlet, then the installation is simple and compact, but the cold air distribution in the height direction of the battery assembly is uneven, leading to insufficient heat dissipation at higher positions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dimensionality change by extending the air outlet from a single low-level opening to multiple levels vertically. The flowguide grille divides the air outlet into upper and lower outlets at different heights, allowing cold air to be discharged at multiple vertical positions. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining the floor-mounted compact installation while achieving uniform temperature distribution throughout the battery assembly's height direction.
Solution Approach 2:
The flowguide grille segments the single air outlet into multiple separate outlets at different heights. The grille structure with guide vanes creates distinct upper and lower discharge channels, enabling independent control of air flow at different vertical levels. This segmentation allows the system to maintain simple installation while improving heat dissipation uniformity across the battery assembly.
2Temperature
If guide vanes are added to expand air outlet range, then heat dissipation at higher positions is improved, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The flowguide grille performs multiple functions simultaneously: it extends the air outlet range vertically, guides cold air flow direction, distributes air uniformly across different heights, and maintains structural compactness. By integrating these functions into a single component, the patent improves heat dissipation efficiency without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide vanes are strategically positioned at specific locations within the flowguide grille to redirect air flow where needed. Rather than uniformly complicating the entire structure, the patent applies local modifications - adding guide vanes only in positions where flow direction control is necessary - thereby achieving improved heat dissipation with minimal increase in overall structural complexity.
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 solution enhances heat dissipation efficiency and uniformity, improving the air conditioner's practicability and reliability by evenly distributing cold air across the battery assembly, reducing energy consumption, and optimizing heat dissipation.
Implementation Method 1
multiple guide vanes are connected to the mounting bracket at intervals, the guide vane includes a drainage plate and a guide plate, the drainage plate is extended along an air outlet direction of the air conditioner, and is bent upwards to be connected with the guide plate, The guide vanes are used for expanding the air outlet range of the air conditioner in the up-down direction
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AI summary
A flowguide grille, an air conditioner and an energy storage device are disclosed according to the present disclosure, the flowguide grille comprises a mounting bracket and a plurality of guide vanes, the mounting bracket is mounted on the air conditioner and covers an air outlet of the air conditioner, the mounting bracket is extended along an up-down direction of the air conditioner; the plurality of guide vanes are connected to the mounting bracket at intervals, the guide vane comprises a drainage plate and a guide plate, the drainage plate is extended along an air outlet direction of the air conditioner, and is bent upwards to be connected with the guide plate, the guide vanes are used for expanding the air outlet range of the air conditioner in the up-down direction.