US 11,719,350 B2
Coolant flow control module
Alexander Dragojlov, Chatham (CA); Benjamin MacNally, Chatham (CA); Russell M Modien, Chatham (CA); Jeremy Daniel Schmidt, Chatham (CA); Kris Leo Barboza, Chatham (CA); Qingqing Xie, Chatham (CA); David Rene Forgeron, Tilbury (CA); and Jürgen Luft, Macomb, MI (US)
Assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES USA, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed by Vitesco Technologies USA, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/838,665.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/961,961, filed on Jan. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/860,610, filed on Jun. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0393053 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. F16K 11/16 (2006.01); F28F 27/02 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 11/165 (2013.01) [F28F 27/02 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a coolant flow control module, including:
a plurality of outer housings;
a plurality of rotors, each of the plurality of rotors disposed in a corresponding one of the plurality of outer housings;
a plurality of channels, each of the plurality of channels integrally formed as a part of a corresponding one of the plurality of rotors;
a first plurality of ports integrally formed as part of a first of the plurality of outer housings;
a second plurality of ports integrally formed as part of a second of the plurality of outer housings;
an actuator connected to a first of the plurality of rotors; and
a plurality of orientations, the plurality of rotors operable for being placed in one of the plurality of orientations;
a first plurality of channels integrally formed as part of a first of the plurality of rotors; and
a second plurality of channels integrally formed as part of a second of the plurality of rotors;
a tapered portion formed as part of one of the first plurality of channels, the tapered portion able to distribute fluid to, or receive fluid from, two of the first plurality of ports when the first and the second of the plurality of rotors are placed in at least one of the plurality of orientations;
wherein the first of the plurality of rotors is disposed in a first of the plurality of outer housings, the second of the plurality of rotors is disposed in a second of the plurality of outer housings and connected to the first of the plurality of rotors, and the actuator rotates the first of the plurality of rotors and the second of the plurality of rotors to one of the plurality of orientations such that at least one of the first plurality of channels is in fluid communication with at least one of the first plurality of ports, and at least one of the second plurality channels is in fluid communication with at least one of the second plurality of ports.