US 12,420,651 B2
Charge port cooling system for an electric vehicle
Chih-Hung Yen, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US); Satish P. Ketkar, Troy, MI (US); Peter Paul Andruskiewicz, IV, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Seunghwan Keum, Northville, MI (US); Taeyoung Han, Troy, MI (US); Vicente Domenech-Llopis, Rochester Hills, MI (US); and Orlando Saenz Fuentes, St. Clair Shores, MI (US)
Assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed by GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed on Jul. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/872,168.
Prior Publication US 2024/0025278 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/302 (2019.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/16 (2019.02) [B60L 53/302 (2019.02); H05K 7/20936 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charge port for an electric vehicle comprising:
a first charging terminal;
a second charging terminal spaced from the first charging terminal; and
a phase change material (PCM) cartridge including a non-porous housing storing an amount of PCM, the non-porous housing being arranged in thermal contact with one of the first charging terminal and the second charging terminal, wherein the non-porous housing includes a plurality of walls defining a PCM receiving zone, the PCM being stored in the PCM receiving zone, and the PCM cartridge includes a heat spreader extending from at least one of the plurality of walls into the PCM receiving zone, the heat spreader configured to transmit heat into an interior of the PCM cartridge.