Systems and methods are provided for determining a temperature of a thermal system that includes fluid conduits. A sensor monitors a current state of the temperature. A controller receives a signal from the sensor that is representative of the current state; determines a flow in the fluid conduits; determines a noise covariance of the thermal system; processes a thermal model of the thermal system; predicts a next-step state of the parameter at a time after the current state; and corrects the next-step state based, at least in-part, on the noise covariance resulting in a corrected next-step state.

A vehicle propulsion system includes an engine having a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet, a coolant pump having an outlet in communication with the engine coolant inlet, a pressure sensor in fluid communication with the engine coolant outlet and that generates a pressure signal indicative of a pressure in the engine coolant outlet, and a controller in communication with the pressure sensor and the coolant pump. The controller is programmed to control a flow of coolant through the engine from the coolant pump based upon the pressure signal.

The invention relates to an outer pipe (1) of an outlet (4) of a volute (3) of a heat transfer pump (2), particularly arranged in a recess defined in a heat engine of a vehicle, the outer pipe (1) being provided on an outer surface (9) of the cylinder housing (8) of the engine and comprising a first component (5a) capable of guiding the heat-transfer fluid from said outlet (4) to an inlet (6) of an inner circuit (7) for circulating the heat-transfer fluid defined in the cylinder housing (8).

A coolant pump for a vehicle includes an impeller mounted at one side of a shaft and configured to pump a coolant, a pulley mounted at the other side of the shaft and configured to receive torque, a pump housing including an inlet into which the coolant inflows and an outlet of which the coolant flows out, a slider disposed to be movable in a longitudinal direction of the shaft so as to selectively block or open the outlet and a driver configured to move the slider, where a passage which supplies the coolant to at least one heat exchange element is formed on the pump housing.

At cold start of an internal combustion engine having an EGR system configured to recirculate, to an intake system, a portion of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, supply of a coolant to an EGR cooler and an air conditioning heater which are provided in a coolant circuit for circulating the coolant through the internal combustion engine and an outside thereof is shut off, when a temperature of the coolant is less than a predetermined temperature, and supply of the coolant to the air conditioning heater is allowed and supply of the coolant to the EGR cooler is shut off until the EGR system is activated, when the temperature of the coolant is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature.

An internal combustion engine with coolant jackets is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head coupled to a cylinder block to form a first cylinder, an upper head-associated coolant jacket including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head, a lower head-associated coolant jacket fluidly separated from the upper cylinder head coolant jacket and including a coolant conduit traversing the cylinder head vertically below the upper head-associated coolant jacket, and a block-associated coolant jacket including, a first coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with a coolant pump outlet and an outlet in fluidic communication with an inlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket, and a second coolant passage having an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of the lower head-associated coolant jacket and an outlet in fluidic communication with a heat exchanger.

The present invention relates to a liquid-cooled internal combustion engine comprising an engine block, which includes a plurality of cylinders, and cylinder heads closing the cylinders, wherein each cylinder is surrounded by a respective cooling liner and each cylinder head has provided therein at least one separate cooling chamber connected to the cooling liner of the associated cylinder via at least one transition channel, wherein the transition channels of at least two cylinders are interconnected via a pressure compensation chamber.

A cylinder block assembly may include a cylinder block, a cylinder body disposed in the cylinder block, with a plurality of cylinder bores formed in the cylinder body, a fluid jacket, which is formed between an inner circumferential surface of the cylinder block and an outer circumferential surface of the cylinder body, and through which coolant flows, and a block insert disposed in the water jacket and configured to guide a flow of coolant, wherein the cylinder block may include a second block coolant outlet, which is formed at a second side in a surface of an exhaust side of the cylinder block, and through which the coolant in the water jacket is discharged, and wherein the exhaust side may include a side at which combustion gas is exhausted out of the cylinder body.

An integrated flow control valve apparatus configured to control a flow rate of coolant in an engine cooling system for cooling an engine may include a cylinder block and a cylinder head mounted above the cylinder block, the integrated flow control valve apparatus may include a valve housing; a plurality of coolant ports formed at the valve housing and provided as inlets and outlets through which the coolant flows into and out of the valve housing; and valves configured for opening and closing the coolant ports, wherein the coolant ports include a first inlet port for introduction of the coolant from the cylinder block and a second inlet port for introduction of the coolant from the cylinder head into the valve housing; and the flow of the coolant at the first and second inlet ports is controlled by the valves configured to vary the flow of the coolant in the cylinder block and the cylinder head.

A cooling water control valve device includes a housing and a valve. The housing includes a planar attachment surface, a first inlet port, a second inlet port, and at least one outlet port. The first inlet port and the second inlet port are open on the planar attachment surface. The housing is attached to the engine such that the first inlet port and the second inlet port are fluidly connected to a first outlet and a second outlet, respectively, and the planar attachment surface comes into contact with an outer wall of either one of an engine block or an engine head of the engine.