An engine cooling system is provided, which includes a water jacket through which coolant flows, a heat exchanger that cools the coolant, a first bypass passage that bypasses the heat exchanger and recirculates the coolant to the water jacket, a radiator passage that recirculates the coolant to the water jacket via the heat exchanger, and a flow control device that is installed at a location where a coolant passage branches into the first bypass passage and the radiator passage and performs a water flow control to adjust a coolant amount flowing into the water jacket by adjusting a coolant amount flowing through the first bypass passage. A thermally-actuated valve connected with the radiator passage via a second bypass passage is provided to the first bypass passage, and when this valve opens, the coolant flowing through the first bypass passage flows into the radiator passage through the second bypass passage.

An engine cooling system is provided, which includes a water jacket through which coolant flows, a heat exchanger that cools the coolant, a bypass passage that bypasses the heat exchanger and recirculates the coolant to the water jacket, a first radiator passage that recirculates the coolant to the water jacket via the heat exchanger, a flow control device installed at a location where a coolant passage branches into the bypass passage and the first radiator passage, a second radiator passage that bypasses the flow control device and is connected to the first radiator passage, and a thermally-actuated valve installed in the second radiator passage. The flow control device performs a water flow control to adjust a coolant amount flowing into the water jacket by adjusting a coolant amount flowing through the bypass passage. The coolant flows into the first radiator passage through the second radiator passage, when the valve opens.

A cooling system for a power transmission unit that can supply oil properly to a differential mechanism and motors. The cooling system comprises: a first branch passage to supply the oil to the differential mechanism; a second branch passage to supply the oil to the first motor; and a third branch passage to supply the oil to the second motor. The second branch passage includes a first oil feeding section that supplies the oil to a coil of the first motor, and a second oil feeding section that supplies the oil f to a core of the first motor. The third branch passage includes a third oil feeding section that supplies the oil to a coil of the second motor, and a fourth oil feeding section that supplies the oil to a core of the second motor.

Apparatuses and methods are disclosed including heat exchanger for an internal combustion engine. The heat exchanger can include a main body, a manifold and one or more outlet ports. The main body can have an inlet and an outlet to receive/pass a coolant on a first side thereof. The main body can have a fluid inlet and fluid outlet configured to receive a fluid. The main body can pass the fluid in a heat exchange relationship with the coolant. The manifold can be coupled to the main body on a second side. The manifold can be in fluid communication with a main coolant outlet passage to receive a portion of the coolant from the main body. The one or more outlet ports can be fluidly connected to the manifold and passing the portion of the coolant to one or more engine auxiliary systems.

A cooling system includes a first cooler, a second cooler, a fan positioned to drive air through the first cooler and the second cooler, and a baffle system. The baffle system includes a baffle and an actuator. The baffle is positioned to facilitate selectively restricting airflow through at least a portion of the first cooler. The actuator is positioned to facilitate reconfiguring the baffle between (i) a first orientation where the baffle does not restrict the airflow through the portion of the first cooler and (ii) a second orientation where the baffle restricts the airflow through the portion of the first cooler, thereby diverting additional airflow through the second cooler.

A second temperature adjustment medium branches and flows into the first branch flow path and the second branch flow path at the branching portion, the second temperature adjustment medium and the second temperature adjustment medium are merged at the merging portion and flow through the pressure feed flow path to be supplied to the first pump, and the second temperature adjustment medium circulates through the second temperature adjustment circuit. A valve device configured to adjust a flow rate of the second temperature adjustment medium flowing through the second branch flow path is provided in the second branch flow path between the branching portion and the heat exchanger. The control device is configured to control the valve device to block the second temperature adjustment medium from flowing through the second branch flow path when a failure of the heat exchanger is detected.

An oil temperature control assembly mounts on a vehicle's operating group fluidically connected to an oil circulation system and a cooling system. A heat exchanger has plate-shaped exchanger elements defining reciprocally alternate ducts through which oil and refrigerant fluid flow, and a support and oil control device. The support and oil control device has a plate-shaped base element including the oil inlet and outlet ducts having a first surface in contact and engageable by the heat exchanger and a second opposite surface. The support and oil control device includes a control group having a housing body projecting from the first surface next to the heat exchanger having a housing cavity fluidically connected to the inlet and outlet ducts and an exchanger duct and a valve member in the housing cavity including an obturator element and a control element which moves the obturator element according to oil operating conditions.

A heat control device (1) comprises: a radiator (12) that cools cooling water for cooling a vehicle engine (11); a transmission (13) that transmits the power generated at the engine (11); an air-cooling type oil cooler (14) that cools the transmission oil for cooling the transmission (13) by heat exchange with the air outside the vehicle; a water-cooling type oil cooler (15) that cools the transmission oil by heat exchange with the cooling water; and a flow path switching unit (16) that switches between causing the transmission oil to flow into the air-cooling type oil cooler (14), or causing the transmission oil to flow into the water-cooling type oil cooler (15).

The cooling water temperature control device includes a thermo valve 2 that opens a main flow passage R1 when the temperature of a sensed region R1a in the main flow passage R1 reaches or exceeds an operating temperature set in advance, a sub-valve 3 that opens and closes a sub-flow passage R2 bypassing the thermo valve 2, and a control unit 6 that opens the sub-valve 3 when the temperature of the cooling water on an upstream side of the thermo valve 2 is a predetermined temperature. One end on the upstream side of the sub-flow passage R2 is connected to the sensed region R1a in the main flow passage R1 or to a downstream side of the sensed region R1a, and the operating temperature of the thermo valve 2 is set to be equal to or lower than the predetermined temperature.

Provided is a downsizable valve unit. A valve unit 1 includes a valve case 4 including a valve case main body 4A where a thermo valve 2 is housed and a valve seat 4Aa which a valve body 2b unseats from and seats on is formed, and a sleeve 4B formed protruding outward from the valve case main body 4A; a sub-flow path R2 formed to include a cooling water storage chamber S formed inside the sleeve 4B, a lead-out passage 4Ae communicating the upstream side of the valve seat 4Aa in the valve case main body 4A with the cooling water storage chamber S, and a lead-in passage 4Af communicating the downstream side of the valve seat 4Aa in the valve case main body 4A with the cooling water storage chamber S; and a sub-valve 3 attached to a sleeve 4B to open and close a sub-flow path R2.