Methods and systems are provided for providing thermal management for components of a vehicle. In one example, a method may include exchanging heat between different coolant systems via a heat exchanger using predicted data indicating estimated coolant temperatures for a vehicle trip and measured data indicating dynamic conditions for the vehicle trip.

An air conditioning and battery cooling assembly with an A/C coolant circuit and an E-drivetrain coolant circuit as well as a refrigerant circuit, wherein the A/C coolant circuit and the E-drivetrain coolant circuit are coupled together across a 4/2-way coolant valve in such a way that the A/C coolant circuit and the E-drivetrain coolant circuit can be operated separately or can receive a flow in serial manner.

A door of an air conditioner for a vehicle, which can prevent damage and distortion by bending during assembly and reinforce strength due to a plate-shaped sliding door with flexibility. The door is disposed inside an air-conditioning case to adjust the degree of opening of an air passageway, and includes a door body formed in a plate shape and formed to be able to slide in the air-conditioning case, and a reinforcing part formed from at least one side of the door body in a thickness direction and extending in an axial direction, which is perpendicular to a sliding direction of the door body.

An air conditioning system for a vehicle and a control method thereof may include a temperature detector; an air conditioning actuator including a cooling device and a blower; and a controller connected to the temperature detector and the air conditioning actuator and including: a load determination portion determining an air conditioning load based on factors including an internal temperature or an external temperature of a vehicle detected by the temperature detector; a storage portion storing a control map that controls the air conditioning actuator according to the air conditioning load; and an update portion updating a control value, pre-stored in the control map, of the air conditioning actuator for the air conditioning load to a demand value of a user when receiving the demand value of the user for the air conditioning actuator.

An inspection system includes a thermal camera and an inspection processor. The thermal camera is mountable on a vehicle and configured to perform imaging of a heat transfer part of heating and cooling equipment mounted on the vehicle. The inspection processor is configured to execute, after causing the heating and cooling equipment to start operation, operation check inspection of determining whether the heating and cooling equipment normally operates on the basis of an image of the heat transfer part obtained by the imaging by the thermal camera, and to, in executing the operation check inspection, perform a modification process of modifying an imaging state of the thermal camera to enable the heat transfer part to be imaged by the thermal camera.

In order to provide a method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exchanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle, which method is insensitive to external parameters influencing the air flow through the evaporator, and with which method unnecessary defrosting processes can be avoided, wherein a fan is assigned to the heat exchanger, wherein a power consumption and/or a speed of the fan is monitored, a defrosting process is initiated when the power consumption and/or the speed exceeds and/or falls below a threshold value, and the threshold value is determined as a function of a parameter, wherein the parameter is an indicator of a current relative air speed of the ambient air in relation to the motor vehicle.

In order to provide a method for initiating a defrosting process of a heat exchanger of a heat pump of a motor vehicle, which method is insensitive to external influences and can also be used in combination with other methods, wherein the heat exchanger and a coolant heat exchanger of a cooling circuit of the motor vehicle are arranged in a common air path, a coolant outlet temperature of a coolant from the coolant heat exchanger is determined, and a state of icing of the heat exchanger is determined using the coolant outlet temperature, and initiating a defrosting process of the heat exchanger if icing of the heat exchanger is determined.

Systems and methods for random vehicle movement to prevent theft are disclosed. The vehicle system may automatically reposition to make it seem like the user is home and to reduce battery drain and flat spots on the tire. The system may randomize the start time based on the preferences of the user. At the randomly decided time, the vehicle may start up on its own and reposition itself. In addition, the system may learn a driving behavior pattern of the vehicle via machine learning based on driving behavior associated with the vehicle, such that the vehicle may perform vehicle movement based on the learned driving behavior pattern.

Vehicle comprising a passenger compartment and a system for cleaning the passenger compartment comprising at least one measuring member for measuring the level of dirtiness of said passenger compartment, at least one heating member configured to heat the ambient air of the passenger compartment to a temperature higher than 40° C. in order to desorb the impurities in the passenger compartment, at least one ventilation member configured to remove the ambient air and the desorbed impurities to outside the passenger compartment and at least one control member configured to activate the heating member if the measured level of dirtiness is above a predetermined maximum level of dirtiness.

An alertness maintenance apparatus includes a stimulation controller that is configured to cause a stimulation device to generate multiple types of temperature stimuli maintaining an alert state of a subject person, the temperature stimuli including a temperature stimulus to a hand of the subject person and also including a temperature stimulus to a face of the subject person or a temperature stimulus to a torso of the subject person via a seat on which the subject person sits.