Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above problems, embodiments of the present invention are provided to provide an electric vehicle thermal conductive cable and a corresponding method for preparing an electric vehicle thermal conductive cable, which overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.
In order to solve the above problems, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a heat conducting cable for an electric vehicle, including:
the protective sleeve is attached to the heat insulation layer, and the protective sleeve is wrapped on the heat insulation layer in a closed manner;
the heat insulation layer is coated with at least two power cables which are not in contact with each other;
the power cable comprises a heat dissipation pipeline and a conductor wire which are packaged into a whole, specifically, the pipeline cavity of the heat dissipation pipeline is not completely filled with the conductor wire and/or the outer wall of the heat dissipation pipeline is coated with the conductor wire, and the outer layer of the conductor wire is further coated with an insulating heat conduction layer;
a pipeline cavity in the heat dissipation pipeline is filled with heat dissipation cooling liquid;
the heat-conducting material and the auxiliary cable are arranged in the gap part of the inner cavity of the heat-insulating layer;
one end of the electric automobile heat conduction cable is provided with a terminal connected with the charging pile base, the other end of the electric automobile heat conduction cable is provided with a charging gun, and the charging gun is electrically connected with a conductor wire of the power cable;
the terminal is connected with the heat dissipation pipeline and used for forming a liquid loop.
Furthermore, the pipe wall of the heat dissipation pipeline is provided with small holes.
Further, the heat dissipation cooling liquid in the heat dissipation pipeline is non-conductive or conductive liquid.
Further, the conductor wire includes an inner layer and an outer layer;
the inner layer is a stranded conductor wire layer;
the outer layer is a braided conductor wire layer.
Further, the conductor wire is packaged in the insulating heat conduction layer to serve as a power cable and the heat dissipation pipeline for split packaging, wherein the number of the power cable and the number of the heat dissipation pipeline are at least two.
Further, the heat conduction material is heat conduction glue or heat conduction mud or AB glue with the heat conduction coefficient larger than 1W/mK.
Further, the sheath is an insulating rubber plastic layer.
Furthermore, a reinforcing structure is arranged in the insulating rubber-plastic layer;
the reinforcing structure is spiral or linear.
The embodiment of the invention discloses a preparation method of a heat conducting cable of an electric automobile, which comprises the following steps:
implanting conductor wires which are not completely filled in the pipeline cavities of the heat dissipation pipelines into the pipeline cavities of at least two preset heat dissipation pipelines to form a power cable; or laying the conductor lines on the outer walls of at least two preset heat dissipation pipelines to form a power cable; or at least two conductor wires and at least two heat dissipation pipelines are packaged in the heat conduction material together, and the conductor wires are used as power cables;
performing outer layer treatment on the power cables, specifically, injecting a heat conduction material into the outer layer space of the power cables, and performing insulation treatment on the outer layer of each power cable;
carrying out heat insulation packaging on the processed power cable to obtain a power cable containing a heat insulation layer;
and (4) carrying out sheath encapsulation on the power cable containing the heat insulation layer to obtain the heat conduction cable of the electric automobile.
Further, the outer-layer processing of the power cable further includes: the pipeline wall of the heat dissipation pipeline is provided with a plurality of small holes for communicating the pipeline cavity and the outer layer of the heat dissipation pipeline;
and laying an auxiliary cable in the outer space of the power cable.
The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:
the conductor of the power cable is designed to be a stranded conductor wire layer on the inner layer and a braided conductor wire layer on the outer layer, and the braided layer can prevent the conductor wire from loosening in the processing and using processes; the heat dissipation pipeline is filled with the heat conduction material between the liquid cooling pipeline and the wire core in a liquid cooling mode, so that heat emitted by the conductor is quickly transferred to liquid in the pipeline longitudinally through the heat conduction material, and then is taken away through liquid flowing, and the longitudinal heat conduction efficiency is improved; the cable sheath layer is coated with a layer of heat insulation material, so that heat emitted by the conductor is prevented from being transversely transferred to the cable sheath layer, and the transverse heat conduction efficiency is reduced; the cable has fast longitudinal heat conduction and slow transverse heat conduction, thereby improving the charging efficiency and ensuring the safety of a user; the pipe wall is provided with a proper amount of small holes, so that liquid can be directly contacted with the conductor, and the heat conduction efficiency is improved.
Detailed Description
In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, the present invention is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description thereof.
One of the core ideas of the embodiment of the invention is that a liquid cooling pipeline is embedded in the cable, and a heat conducting material is filled between the liquid cooling pipeline and the wire core, so that heat emitted by the conductor is transferred to liquid in the pipeline through the heat conducting material, and then the heat is taken away through liquid flowing; the power line conductor is designed to be stranded on the inner layer and woven on the outer layer, so that the conductor cannot be loosened in the processing and using processes; the pipe wall is provided with a proper amount of small holes, so that liquid can be in direct contact with the conductor, the heat conduction efficiency is increased, and the liquid loop is connected with the terminal and the pile seat by virtue of the insulation or the sheath layer.
Referring to fig. 1, a schematic cross-sectional structure diagram of an embodiment of a thermal conductive cable for an electric vehicle according to the present invention is shown, and specifically, the thermal conductive cable may include:
the heat insulation layer 3 is coated with the sheath 4 in a closed manner; the heat insulation layer 3 is wrapped with at least two power cables which are not in contact with each other; the power cable comprises a heat dissipation pipeline 1 and a conductor wire 2 which are packaged into a whole, specifically, as shown in fig. 1, a pipeline cavity 11 of the heat dissipation pipeline 1 is not completely filled with the conductor wire, as shown in fig. 1a, or the outer wall of the heat dissipation pipeline 1 is coated with the conductor wire 2, and the outer layer of the conductor wire is further coated with an insulating heat conduction layer 7, as shown in fig. 1 b; the pipeline cavity 11 in the heat dissipation pipeline 1 is filled with heat dissipation cooling liquid, wherein when the conductor wire 2 is arranged in the heat dissipation pipeline, heat dissipated by the conductor can be directly taken away through the heat dissipation cooling liquid, and the heat dissipation efficiency is improved; the heat-conducting material 5 and the auxiliary cable 6 are arranged in the gap part of the inner cavity of the heat-insulating layer 3; one end of the electric automobile heat conducting cable is provided with a terminal connected with the charging pile base, the other end of the electric automobile heat conducting cable is provided with a charging gun 8, and as shown in fig. 4, the charging gun 8 is electrically connected with the conductor wire 2 of the power cable; the terminal is connected with the heat dissipation pipe 1 of the power cable and used for forming a liquid loop.
The heat conducting material 5 is filled between the heat dissipation pipeline 1 in the inner cavity of the heat insulation layer 3 and the power cable, so that when the heat conducting cable works, heat emitted by the conductor wire 2 is longitudinally and quickly transferred to liquid in the heat dissipation pipeline 1 through the heat conducting material 5, and then the heat is taken away through the flowing of heat dissipation cooling liquid, and the longitudinal heat conducting efficiency is improved; a heat insulation layer 3 made of heat insulation materials is coated in a sheath 4 of the cable, so that heat emitted by the conductor wire 2 is prevented from being transversely transmitted to the cable sheath 4, and transverse heat conduction efficiency is reduced.
In the above embodiments, since the charging of the automobile may require the use of a large current for charging; the conductor wire 2 is formed to have a resistance value which is fixed according to the resistance characteristic of the conductor according to the heat power calculation formula I2R shows that when a large current passes through the conductor wire 2, a large amount of heat is generated, the heat is transferred to the heat dissipation pipeline 1 through the heat conduction material 5, and the heat is longitudinally conducted and output by the heat dissipation cooling liquid in the heat dissipation pipeline 1; meanwhile, the heat insulation layer 3 arranged in the cable sheath 4 of the heat conduction cable prevents heat from being dissipated from the cable sheath 4, and the temperature of the outside of the whole heat conduction cable is not too high when the heat conduction cable is used, so that the problem of cable overheating can not occur when the heat conduction cable is used for a long time.
In one embodiment, the heat dissipation coolant of the pipe cavity 11 is a non-conductive or conductive liquid.
Further, the pipe wall of the heat dissipation pipe 1 is provided with small holes 12, as shown in fig. 2; the heat dissipation cooling liquid can be directly contacted with the conductor wire 2 and the heat conduction material 5 through the small holes 12 in the heat dissipation pipeline 1, so that the heat dissipation can be well performed on the conductor wire 2 of the power cable and the auxiliary cable 6, and the heat dissipation efficiency is further improved; in the present embodiment, the heat dissipation cooling liquid in the conduit cavity 11 is preferably a non-conductive liquid, such as an electronic fluorinated liquid, to prevent short-circuit between the conductor cables.
In one embodiment, the conductor wire 2 includes an inner layer and an outer layer; the inner layer is a stranded conductor wire layer 21; the outer layer is a braided conductor wire layer 22, as shown in fig. 3, the wire conductor 2 of the power cable is designed to have an inner layer which is a stranded conductor layer 21, and the outer layer which is the braided conductor wire layer 22 weaves the conductor wire layer, so that the conductor wire 2 can not be loosened in the processing and using processes through the weaved conductor wire.
In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 1c, the conductor wires 1 are packaged in the insulating and heat conducting layer 7 as power cables and heat dissipation pipes 1 which are packaged separately, wherein the number of the power cables and the number of the heat dissipation pipes 1 are at least two; the power cable and the heat dissipation pipeline 1 are respectively and independently packaged, wherein the outer layer of the power cable is an insulating heat conduction layer 7; many power cables of setting, through its insulating heat-conducting layer 7, conduct the heat to heat conduction material 5, conduct to heat dissipation pipeline 1 by heat conduction material 5 again, because heat dissipation pipeline 1 is equipped with aperture 12 and can makes, heat conduction material 5 directly conducts the heat to the heat dissipation coolant liquid, wherein, many power cables make the calorific capacity that the electric current can shunt reduction branch root power line when charging, cooperate the high-efficient heat dissipation of heat dissipation pipeline 1, make the heat conduction cable keep at relative low temperature state at the during operation, do not make inside and outside overheated, it is safer when using.
In one embodiment, the heat conductive material 5 is heat conductive glue or heat conductive mud or AB glue with a heat conductivity greater than 1W/mK; the use of a heat conducting material 5 with a good heat conductivity coefficient makes the heat conduction more efficient.
In one embodiment, the sheath 4 is an insulating rubber-plastic layer.
Further, a reinforcing structure (not shown in the figure) is arranged in the insulating rubber-plastic layer; the reinforcing structure is spiral or linear.
In the above embodiment, the sheath 4 is made of an insulating rubber-plastic material, wherein a reinforcing structure is used to increase the toughness and strength of the heat conducting cable.
It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the illustrated order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required to implement the invention.
Referring to fig. 5, a flowchart illustrating steps of an embodiment of a method for manufacturing a heat conducting cable for an electric vehicle of the present invention is shown, which may specifically include the following steps:
s100, implanting conductor wires which are not completely filled in the pipeline cavities of the heat dissipation pipelines into the pipeline cavities 11 of at least two preset heat dissipation pipelines 1 to form a power cable; or laying the conductor lines on the outer walls of at least two preset heat dissipation pipelines to form a power cable; or at least two conductor wires and at least two heat dissipation pipelines are packaged in the heat conduction material together, and the conductor wires are used as power cables;
step S200, performing outer layer treatment on the power cables, specifically, injecting a heat conduction material into the outer layer space of the power cables, and performing insulation treatment on the outer layer of each power cable;
step S300, performing heat insulation packaging on the processed power cable to obtain the power cable containing a heat insulation layer;
and S400, sheathing and packaging the power cable containing the heat insulation layer to obtain the heat conduction cable of the electric automobile.
Further, the outer-layer processing is performed on the power cable, and the method further comprises the following steps: the pipeline wall of the heat dissipation pipeline is provided with a plurality of small holes for communicating the pipeline cavity and the outer layer of the heat dissipation pipeline;
and laying an auxiliary cable in the outer space of the power cable.
The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.
While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.
Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.
The electric vehicle heat conducting cable and the preparation method thereof provided by the invention are described in detail, and the principle and the implementation mode of the invention are explained by applying specific examples, and the description of the examples is only used for helping to understand the method and the core idea of the invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.