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Apparatus for controlling the temperature of a vehicle component using an anti-icing unblocking unit

US10697351B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims

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Assignee

Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

Christian Jolk · Cologne, DE
Johann Wegers · Cologne, DE
Helmut Hoyer · Rübhausen, DE
Thomas Nitsche · Eßlingen, DE
Bernd Brinkmann

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 21, 2019
Grant date	Jun 30, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 21, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02T10/88
WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for controlling the temperature of a vehicle component, in particular of an internal combustion engine, by way of a cooling apparatus of the vehicle using at least one moving air guide which controls a cooling air stream. The apparatus has an anti-icing unblocking unit which is designed in such a way that it can release the air guide which has been blocked by ice and/or snow, so that the slats or the like which serve as the air guide are fully operational again. To this end, the anti-icing unblocking unit is designed to melt the ice and/or the snow.

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