A heat pump air-conditioning system for a vehicle includes a refrigerant circuit, an auxiliary heater, and a control unit. The control unit compares a difference between a target blowout temperature and an actual blowout temperature with a predetermined first temperature threshold value in magnitudes, The control unit adjusts an opening degree of a first expansion valve and an opening degree of a second expansion valve. The control unit adjusts an output power of the auxiliary heater. The control unit executes a plurality of different modes of a heat pump air-conditioning to control the actual blowout temperature to approach and maintain at the target blowout temperature.

A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a vehicle may include a heating body positioned inside an HVAC duct of the vehicle, formed between a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion having polarities opposite to each other. The heating body is configured to generate heat when the heating body is electrified to increase a temperature of an air being transported through the HVAC duct.

The invention, according to a first aspect, relates to a cover (4) of an electronic interface housing (300) of an electrical heating device for a motor vehicle, the cover (4) comprising at least one pressing member (44a, 44b) and at least one pressing element (45) which are configured to be in contact with a printed circuit board (5) when the cover (4) is fixed on the electronic interface housing (300), a free end of the at least one pressing member (44a, 44b) extending in a first transverse plane (451) and a free end (4501) of the at least one pressing element (45) extending in a second transverse plane (452), the at least one pressing member (44a, 44b) and the at least one pressing element (45) being arranged so that they project, in a direction perpendicular to a reference plane (400) of the cover (4), from an inner face of the cover (4) intended to face toward the inside of the electronic interface housing (300), characterized in that the first transverse plane (451) and the second transverse plane (452) are substantially parallel to one another and to the reference plane of the cover, strictly not coincident with one another or with the reference plane (400) of the cover (4), the second transverse plane (452) being, in a direction perpendicular thereto, closer to the reference plane (400) of the cover (4) than the first transverse plane (451).

A method of providing thermal conditioning for a vehicle occupant according to an example of the present disclosure includes determining a respective target temperature for each of a plurality of discrete OPZs. Each OPZ is associated with a different occupant body area. The determining is based on a difference between a first OTS indicative of a target heat flux for the occupant and a second OTS indicative of an estimated heat flux experienced by the occupant, wherein the respective target temperatures differ between the OPZs. The method includes providing thermal conditioning in each OPZ based on the target temperature for the OPZ, which includes utilizing at least one thermal effector in the OPZ. The method also includes receiving a temperature offset value for a particular one of the OPZs from the occupant, and adjusting the target temperature for the particular one of the OPZs based on the temperature offset value.

An individual air conditioning control system for an electric vehicle, includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) body, an evaporator provided in the HVAC body, a PTC heater, an input unit for receiving set temperature of each of a driver's seat and a passenger's seat, left and right temperature sensing units of sensing an air temperature passing through a left side and a right side of the PTC heater, a control unit of outputting a control signal for controlling the PTC heater based on the set temperature input from the input unit and a measurement temperature measured from each of the left and right temperature sensing units, and a power supply unit of adjusting power supplied to the PTC heater according to the output PWM control signal of the control unit.

Examples of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing cooling and/or heating in a vehicle. For example, the systems and methods may cool and/or heat a vehicle cabin while the vehicle’s engine is not idling or otherwise in operation, without consuming excessive power stored by a vehicle battery. In example implementations, thermoelectric cooling cells may be used.

Systems and methods for operating a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, electric current may be supplied to or withheld from a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater and an electrically heated catalyst. In particular, electric current may be delivered to the PTC heater and withheld from the electrically heated catalyst, or vice-versa, in response to a catalyst temperature and battery state of charge.

A fin element for a heat exchanger, in particular for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system of a motor vehicle, with a plurality of connecting sections and of longitudinal sections, whereby in each case two adjacent longitudinal sections are connected to one another by a connecting section, whereby at least one of the longitudinal sections has gills formed by webs and slots, whereby at least one of the webs has a flared web surface, whereby the web surface is flared out from the at least one longitudinal section, whereby the web surface forms at least two surface sections arranged angled to one another.

A high-voltage heater for a motor vehicle for heating a coolant is disclosed. The high-voltage heater includes at least two flat tubes that are flowable through by the coolant and at least one heating element. The at leas two flat tubes and the at least one heating element are alternatingly stacked on top of one another in a stacking direction to form a stack. The at least one heating element is connected at least to one of the adjacent flat tubes in the stack in a heat-transferring manner.

A PTC heating element comprises at least one PTC element and two conductor paths which are assigned to different polarities and which are electrically conductively connected to the PTC element and are provided with connection elements for the electrical connection of the PTC element. The PTC heating element has improved heat discharge due to the provision of an electromagnetic shielding which is formed from a fluid-permeable metal structure and which surrounds the PTC element and the conductor paths.