Vehicle air-conditioning system
US10486489B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 15, 2016 |
| Grant date | Nov 26, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 15, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB60H1/00964
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A vehicle air-conditioning system capable of reducing energy consumed during traveling while preventing a significant uncomfortable feeling of a user. An inside-vehicle environment predicting unit calculates, by using inside-vehicle sensor information and outside-vehicle sensor information being output from an environmental sensor device and a predicted travel time acquired by a predicted travel information acquisition unit, at least one predicted environmental characteristic which is an environmental characteristic inside a vehicle after a predicted travel time on an assumption that an air-conditioning device is operated in each of at least one candidate mode which has lower intensity than intensity of a selection mode among a plurality of operation modes. A mode controller resets the selection mode to one of the at least one candidate mode, in which the predicted environmental characteristic being within the allowable range is calculated by the inside-vehicle environment predicting unit.
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