A frame device for a fan module for a main cooler and for a charge air cooler of a motor vehicle, comprising a main frame for the main cooler and a charge air cooler, separate from the latter, for the charge air cooler, wherein a seal is provided between the main frame and the charge air frame. Furthermore, the invention relates to a fan module with such a frame device.

A thermal management system for a hybrid vehicle includes an expander, a heat exchanger, a condenser, a water tank, a pump, a heat exchanger for a battery pack, a heat exchanger for a motor, a water cooling jacket for an engine, an exhaust gas heat exchanger for an engine, a valve, and so on. According to the present disclosure, in thermal management loops, different operating modes of the system can be switched by controlling the open-close and opening of the valve. In this way, a series/parallel connection of thermal management branches of an electrical system and an engine system is fulfilled to meet the requirements for heat dissipation and preheating, and flux in each branch is regulated to fulfill thermal management according to different driving conditions of a hybrid vehicle.

A cooling system for a motor vehicle may include a first circuit, a second circuit, a first heat exchanger incorporated in the first circuit, and a second heat exchanger incorporated in the second circuit. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger may be flowed through by ambient air and a coolant. The first heat exchanger may be arranged, relative to an airflow direction, in front of and directly adjacent to the second heat exchanger. The first circuit and the second circuit may be fluidically connected to one another at an upstream distribution point and at a downstream collection point such that a part mass flow of the coolant is flowable from the second circuit into the first circuit at the distribution point, from the first circuit into the first heat exchanger, and out of the first heat exchanger back into the second circuit at the collection point.

The disclosure relates to a method for operating a drive device of a motor vehicle, wherein the drive device has at least one heat-generating device and a cooling circuit for cooling the heat-generating device, and at least one first coolant cooler of the cooling circuit and at least one second coolant cooler of the cooling circuit are fluidically connected to the heat-generating device. It is thereby provided that the first coolant cooler and the second coolant cooler are fluidically connected in parallel to the heat-generating device, and that coolant arriving from the heat-generating device be divided by means of a control mechanism between the first coolant cooler and the second coolant cooler. The disclosure furthermore relates to a drive device of a motor vehicle.

A heat exchanger arrangement includes a heat exchanger having a front, a rear, and a side between the front and the rear, a fan arranged to direct an airflow from the front to the rear of the heat exchanger, and a screen disposed over at least the front and side of the heat exchanger and attached to a structure at or behind the rear of the heat exchanger.

This cooling structure 1 comprises: a first heat exchanger 11 which is provided on a vehicle; a second heat exchanger 12 which is provided on the vehicle so as to be located anterior to the first heat exchanger 11 in the front-back direction of the vehicle; and a third heat exchanger 13 which is provided on the vehicle so as to be located anterior to the second heat exchanger 12 in the front-back direction of the vehicle. The upper end of the first heat exchanger 11 is positioned above the upper end of the second heat exchanger 12 in the height direction of the vehicle; and the upper end of the third heat exchanger 13 is positioned between the upper end of the first heat exchanger 11 and the upper end of the second heat exchanger 12 in the height direction of the vehicle.

Cooling systems for cooling various heat generating components of a vehicle are provided. A cooling system for a vehicle, according to one embodiment, includes a primary cooling assembly arranged near the front of the vehicle. The primary cooling assembly may include at least one of an air conditioning condenser configured for cooling an interior passenger space of the vehicle and a radiator for cooling a power source of the vehicle. The cooling system also includes a first electronics radiator arranged near the front of the vehicle in front of and/or adjacent to the primary cooling assembly and a second electronics radiator arranged in front of and/or adjacent to the primary cooling assembly. One or more cooling lines are operable for carrying a cooling fluid between the first and second electronics radiators and one or more electronic components disposed in the vehicle remote from the first and second electronics radiators.

An internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a coolant, a liquid/gas heat exchanger, a coolant-temperature-dependent control element, an equalizing tank, fluidic connections between the components, and a coolant pump. At least one direct or at least one activation-dependent fluidic connection or at least one force-transmitting connection is set up between a medium in the equalizing tank and a medium of at least one other media path or media circuit of the motor vehicle.

In an engine, a cylinder block and a cylinder head are connected with a crankcase in a forwardly inclined posture. A dual clutch connects or disconnects a transmission path of power of the engine to a transmission. An actuator chamber houses an actuator that controls a hydraulic pressure of the dual clutch. The actuator chamber is disposed on an upper surface of the cylinder block at a position posterior to the cylinder head and anterior to the crankcase in a vehicle longitudinal direction.

An engine and cabin thermal management system for use with a vehicle having an engine, a cabin heating system configured to thermally heat a cabin of the vehicle, a coolant system operably coupled to the engine and to the cabin heating system to thermally manage a temperature of the engine and a temperature of the cabin. The coolant system having one or more coolant thermal storage units fluidly coupled with a radiator and heater core of the coolant system forming a coolant loop. The system further having a control system configured to monitor and maintain at least a predetermined coolant temperature at the cabin heating system even during a coolant temperature decrease at the engine stops.