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Thermal management system for vehicle

US10369866B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 17, 2014
Grant dateAug 6, 2019
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Expiry dateSep 15, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB60L2270/46
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle thermal management system includes a switching portion that switches between a state in which a heat medium circulates through a heat-medium cooling heat exchanger and a state in which the heat medium circulates through a heat-medium heating heat exchanger with respect to each of an engine heat-transfer portion and a heat-generating device, a flow-rate adjustment portion that adjusts the flow rate of the heat medium for each of a heat-medium outside-air heat exchanger and the engine heat-transfer portion, an air-conditioning requesting portion that makes a cooling request for an air cooling heat exchanger to cool the ventilation air as well as a heating request for an air heating heat exchanger to heat the ventilation air, and a controller that controls an operation of at least one of the switching portion, a compressor, and the flow-rate adjustment portion based on presence/absence of the cooling request and presence/absence of the heating request from the air-conditioning requesting portion.

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