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.

A three fluid phase change material (PCM) heat exchanger for a vehicle comprises (i) an intake air channel having a first set of fins disposed therein and configured to receive and output intake air prior to combustion by an engine of the vehicle, (ii) a PCM layer surrounding the intake air channel and configured to cool the intake air, the PCM layer comprising a second set of fins, a PCM fluid that expands when freezing, and a set of elastomeric devices are configured to compress to compensate for the PCM fluid expansion during freezing, and (iii) a refrigerant channel surrounding the PCM layer and configured to circulate a refrigerant to cool the PCM layer to a solid, frozen state.

The present subject matter relates to an electric vehicle thermal management system comprising at least one air conditioning system and a battery thermal management system, with a battery, for being used in hot climate region. The system comprising: a refrigerant cycle comprising a compressor, a first condenser, a second condenser; expansion devices, and an evaporator, wherein the compressor being configured to compress refrigerant vapours by increasing temperature and pressure of a refrigerant; and wherein the first condenser and the second condenser being configured to condense high pressure and high temperature of the refrigerant; and a coolant cycle comprising an electric water pump, a battery heat exchanger, the first condenser, and a heater, wherein the electric water pump being configured to pump a coolant into the coolant cycle, the first condenser being configured to heat the coolant using the heat captured from the refrigerant cycle and configured to transfer the heated coolant to the heater.

A method for directing thermal energy to an evaporator of a transport climate control circuit of a transport climate control system is provided. The method includes a controller determining whether the climate control circuit is operating in a start-stop cooling mode. Also, the method includes the controller determining a thermal energy charge of the thermal storage reservoir when the climate control circuit is operating in the start-stop cooling mode. The method also includes determining whether the thermal energy charge is greater than a charge threshold. Further, the method includes determining whether the climate control circuit is operating in a stop portion of the start-stop cooling mode when the thermal energy charge is greater than the charge threshold. The method further includes transferring thermal energy from the thermal storage reservoir to an evaporator when the climate control circuit is operating in the stop portion of the start-stop cooling mode.

An air purification device includes: a carbon dioxide removal device configured to sorb and remove carbon dioxide contained in air; an air supply duct connected to a first outlet of the carbon dioxide removal device and having a blowing opening 17a for flowing out purified air from which carbon dioxide has been removed by the carbon dioxide removal device 12 into a vehicle cabin; and an exhaust duct connected to a second outlet of the carbon dioxide removal device and having an exhaust opening 18a for discharging the carbon dioxide sorbed by the carbon dioxide removal device to outside of the vehicle cabin 3, wherein the air supply duct is mounted to a front seat of the vehicle so as to be movable vertically with the blowing opening facing forward.

An integrated thermal management system includes a cooling circuit having a component thermal conditioning circuit, a battery thermal conditioning circuit, a cabin heating circuit, a cabin cooling circuit and a valve group configured for selectively interconnecting or isolating the component thermal conditioning circuit, the battery thermal conditioning circuit, the cabin heating circuit and the cabin cooling circuit.

An air-conditioning system is provided for a motor vehicle. That system includes a vacuum enclosure having a refrigerant, a first section and a second section. The system further includes a radiator, a core and a phase change material vessel downstream from the core. A conduit and valve system operate the air-conditioning system in two modes of operation.

The present invention relates to a vehicle thermal management system which is separately provided with the final heat dissipation unit of a cooling system for cooling electronic components required for the autonomous driving of a vehicle, optimizes the modularization of units, and thereby promotes the reduction of a package.

A heat pump system for a vehicle may heat or cool a battery module by use of a chiller in which a refrigerant and a coolant are heat-exchanged, and may improve heating efficiency by use of another chiller that recovers waste heat of electrical equipment.

An accumulator in combination with an internal heat exchanger in a shared housing, the accumulator including a cyclone for separation of the gas and liquid phase of a refrigerant, wherein the cyclone includes two separate, curved flow paths, one of which leads from an inlet on the cover side whose direction of flow is closer to the axial than the radial direction of the cyclone into the accumulator and radially outwards, and the other of which leads outwards from an end facing away from the cover.