PPS Harmonica Tube Extrusion for Battery Cooling Plates

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current liquid cooling plates for batteries face challenges in material selection, forming processes, and performance metrics, leading to issues such as material breakage, poor extrusion flow, and reduced mechanical properties during extrusion molding, which affect production capacity and product quality.

Innovation Solution

A harmonica tube made of a polyphenylene sulfide composition, comprising a polyphenylene sulfide resin and a toughening agent, such as a copolymer of olefin and glycidyl ester, is used for extrusion molding, enhancing mechanical strength, deformation resistance, and heat dissipation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If conventional materials are used for liquid cooling plates, then material selection and forming processes are limited, but mechanical strength and deformation resistance are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemechanical strengthVSAvoidforming process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses polyphenylene sulfide resin as a composite material that combines high mechanical strength, deformation resistance, and extrusion processability. This single material solution resolves the contradiction by providing both the required strength properties and ease of manufacturing through extrusion molding.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Productivity

If conventional materials are used for extrusion molding, then processing is simpler, but material breakage and poor extrusion flow occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveextrusion flowVSAvoidmaterial breakage
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent optimizes the molecular weight parameters of the polyphenylene sulfide resin to achieve the balance between extrusion flow and material integrity. By controlling the molecular weight within a specific range, the material exhibits both good extrusion flow characteristics and resistance to breakage during processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Strength

If material properties are enhanced for better mechanical strength, then deformation resistance improves, but extrusion flow and processing become difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedeformation resistanceVSAvoidextrusion molding
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent carefully selects and controls the molecular weight parameter of the polyphenylene sulfide resin. By optimizing this parameter, the material achieves high deformation resistance while maintaining good extrusion flow properties, resolving the contradiction between mechanical strength and ease of manufacturing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP4715013A1Harmonica-shaped tube and manufacturing method, liquid cooling plate, battery, and electric device
Publication Date: 2026.03.25 CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

This application discloses a harmonica tube and a preparation method thereof, a liquid cooling plate, a battery, and an electric apparatus, where a material of the harmonica tube includes a polyphenylene sulfide composition, and the polyphenylene sulfide composition includes a polyphenylene sulfide resin and a toughening agent; the toughening agent includes a copolymer of an olefin and a glycidyl ester. By providing the polyphenylene sulfide composition as the material for the harmonica tube, this application facilitates reducing issues such as material breakage or poor extrusion flow during extrusion molding, enabling the formed harmonica tube to exhibit excellent mechanical strength, deformation resistance, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, heat dissipation, and creep resistance, lowering the risk of cracking under pressure during use, and enhancing production capacity and product quality.