US 12,297,923 B2
Multi-port thermal module
Ravinder Singh Gill, Chatham (CA); Mohammad Abu Jubbeh, Chatham (CA); Alexander Dragojlov, Chatham (CA); Jörg Eissler, Wiesbaden (DE); Mitchell Koupal, Pontiac, MI (US); Peter Welteroth, Glashütten (DE); and Armin Seeger, Glashütten (DE)
Assigned to Vitesco Technologies USA, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed by Vitesco Technologies USA, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI (US)
Filed on Jan. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/156,041.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/266,996, filed on Jan. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0235832 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. F16K 11/08 (2006.01); F16K 11/085 (2006.01); F16K 27/06 (2006.01)
CPC F16K 27/065 (2013.01) [F16K 11/0856 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a multi-port thermal module, including:
a central housing;
a plurality of flow cavities integrally formed as part of the central housing;
a first inner housing portion connected to a first side of the central housing;
at least one inner flow channel integrally formed as part of the first inner housing portion and in fluid communication with at least one of the plurality of flow cavities;
at least one valve located in the central housing;
a first outer housing portion connected to the first inner housing portion;
at least one flow channel, a portion of the first inner housing portion being part of the at least one flow channel, and a portion of the first outer housing portion being part of the at least one flow channel such that the at least one flow channel is in fluid communication with the at least one inner flow channel;
wherein the at least one valve selectively directs fluid between two or more of the plurality of flow cavities.