The disclosure relates to a method for operating a portable input device to control a motor vehicle. The input device has a pressure-sensitive touchscreen. The input device generates control signals to control the motor vehicle, and transmit said signals to the motor vehicle. The control signal has at least one determinable parameter. The input device is designed to capture a pressure value of an actuating force of the touchscreen, and determine the parameter according to the captured pressure value.

An air quality system includes an air precleaner, a filter identification component, and a control module. The air precleaner has a precleaner housing and a filter disposed inside the precleaner housing. The filter identification component is positioned within the precleaner housing at a first position and is mounted on the filter. The control module is positioned within the precleaner housing at a second position and is configured to emit an electrical field and communicate with the filter identification component via the emitted electrical field.

A thermal management system for a vehicle includes a connection interface that is coupled with a compartment of the vehicle and is in fluid communication with a climate control system of the vehicle. A container is movably disposed in the compartment and is in fluid communication with the climate control system via the connection interface. At least one alignment feature is coupled with the compartment and engages at least one sidewall of the container to align the container with the connection interface while the container moves in the compartment.

Example apparatus and methods are disclosed for a vehicle-based smart cooler. An example disclosed cooler includes an electric cooling unit, a plurality of sensors, a wireless node, and a cooling control unit. The example wireless node communicatively couples to the vehicle. The example cooling control unit monitors a charge margin of the vehicle and, in response to the charge margin being below a threshold, activates a power management technique.

Disclosed is a device to be utilized in a vehicle to prevent a computing unit from overheating. The device includes a holder having a plurality of air vents, a plastic flexible hose, a shade, a reducer, and a plurality of alligator clips. The reducer is mounted on an air conditioning (AC) vent by utilizing the plurality of alligator clips. The holder includes a front portion and rear portion to accommodate the computing unit. The reducer is mounted in a way to guide the cool air to the plurality of air vents of the holder through the plastic flexible hose. The plurality of air vents is configured at a front portion of the holder to prevent the battery of the computing unit from overheating. Further, the shade is configured on a top portion of the holder to protect the computing unit from the sun.

The vehicle includes a thawing compartment configured to thaw a commodity housed therein, an acquisition device configured to obtain information including a thawing time limit set based on a request from a user, and a controller configured to control the thawing operation of the thawing compartment. The controller controls the thawing compartment so as to complete the thawing operation of the commodity housed therein by the thawing time limit.

A vehicle mounted refrigeration device comprising an outer shell, an inner shell nested in the outer shell, one or more heat sink plates attached to the inner shell, one of an insulating material and a vacuum spacing the inner shell from the outer shell, a control unit, and a compressor mounted to a vibration isolator.

A carbon dioxide concentration control device (10) is provided with a control unit (15) that controls an absorption amount of carbon dioxide of a carbon dioxide absorbent (16) per unit hour, and a regeneration control unit (14) that generates the carbon dioxide absorbent (16), and a second drive energy supply unit (13) which is different from a first drive energy supply unit (11) that supplies power to the control unit (15) supplies power to the regeneration control unit (14), and thus a carbon dioxide concentration in a space is controlled to be an appropriate value for long periods of time.

A rubber body as an elastic body for closure closes a gap between a partition plate in which a through-hole is formed and refrigeration piping inserted through the through-hole. The rubber body for closure includes a pressurized insertion receiving portion having formed therein an opening into which the refrigeration piping is pressed and inserted, the pressurized insertion receiving portion elastically pressing and contacting in a liquid-tight manner an external surface of the refrigeration piping; a fitting portion fitted in a liquid-tight manner the peripheral edge portion of the through-hole in a state in which an inner circumferential surface of the through-hole is elastically pressed; and a displacement allowance portion that closes a gap between the pressurized insertion receiving portion and the fitting portion, and to allow a relative displacement of the pressurized insertion receiving portion and the fitting portion in a direction parallel to the partition plate.

The invention is one or more battery operated air controller systems integrated in motor vehicles to generate air flow. It includes a sensor car key pad. The air controller system is separate from the engine's based heating and cooling system. It is an independent system.