A vehicle control device 40 of a vehicle 200 provided with a cooling circuit 20 using a circulating cooling liquid to cool motors 112, 114 for driving a vehicle or a PCU 118 and a refrigerant circuit 30 discharging heat of the circulating refrigerant for air-conditioning a passenger compartment to the cooling liquid of the cooling circuit 20 and driven by jointly using the outputs of the motors 112, 114 and the output of an engine 12, which control device comprising a cooling mode switching part 42 switching a cooling mode from a normal control mode to a cooling priority control mode cooling the passenger compartment with priority when a predetermined condition stands and a vehicle control part 43 making the outputs of the motors 112, 114 decrease and making the output of the engine 12 increase when the normal control mode is switched to the cooling priority control mode.

A system includes heat generating components in a vehicle and a coolant flow path connected to the heat generating components. The system includes a coolant pump that circulates coolant through the coolant flow path and a reversing mechanism that reverses a direction of circulation of coolant.

Provided is a vehicle including: a vehicle main body including an electrical device that generates heat when the vehicle travels; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between outside air and a refrigerant; and cooling piping that constitutes a flow passage through which the refrigerant circulates between the electrical device and the heat exchanger, with a part of the flow passage being routed on a lower surface side of and in contact with a floor panel that constitutes a part of the vehicle main body.

A transport refrigeration system includes a transport refrigeration unit, an energy storage device, a supply refrigerant tube, a return refrigerant tube and at least one electrical pathway. The transport refrigeration unit is adapted to cool a container. The energy storage device is adapted to provide electrical energy for operating the transport refrigeration unit. The supply refrigerant tube flows a refrigerant from the transport refrigeration unit to the energy storage device, and the return refrigerant tube flows the refrigerant from the energy storage device back to the transport refrigeration unit. The electrical pathway extends between the transport refrigeration unit and the energy storage device, and supplies at least electrical energy to the transport refrigeration unit.

A thermal management system for an electric vehicle, having a control unit, a battery circuit connected to a drive battery of the electric vehicle, a drive circuit connected to an electric drive of the electric vehicle or to a power electronics for an electric drive, and an air conditioning circuit connected for heat transfer to a vehicle interior of the electric vehicle. The battery circuit and the drive circuit are each operable with a coolant and can be connectable from one another for transfer of coolant by an actuatable coolant valve. The air conditioning circuit can be operated with a refrigerant different from the coolant. A heat transfer connection between the battery circuit and/or the drive circuit on the one hand and the air conditioning circuit on the other hand can be established or separated by at least one heat exchange device of the thermal management system.

A system includes a casing configured to allow air to flow towards a vehicle interior or cabin. An air treatment cavity contains a heater core of a cooling circuit. A control unit is provided which is configured to control the temperature of the air. An interface device provides the control unit with a required temperature command. An actuator is configured to adjust, in a controlled way by the control unit, the opening of a flow control valve situated upstream of the heater core. The system further includes a temperature sensor configured to detect temperature data representative of the temperature reached by the air flowing into the air treatment cavity downstream of the heater core. The control unit is also configured to control the actuator also as a function of the temperature data as a function of the temperature command.

A system includes an electric battery. A thermal regulation circuit has liquid pass through the circuit and includes an operative tract in thermal exchange relation with the battery to control battery temperature. A refrigeration circuit has fluid pass through that is subjected to a non-reversible refrigeration cycle. The refrigeration circuit includes a condenser in thermal exchange relation with the thermal regulation circuit heating tract. An evaporator is in thermal exchange relation with the cooling tract of the thermal regulation circuit. A thermal regulation circuit valve assembly is selectively configured in a heating configuration and in a cooling configuration. The valve assembly defines, in the thermal regulation circuit between the operative tract and the cooling tract, a closed heating path for the liquid in the heating configuration, and a closed cooling path for the liquid in the cooling configuration.

The present invention relates to a coolant heater comprising: a heating element for heating coolant; a first housing for accommodating the heating element; a cover plate for sealing the first housing in which the heating element is accommodated; a temperature fuse provided in an external space formed by coupling the first housing and the cover plate, and disposed to be adjacent to the cover plate; and a second housing for pressing the temperature fuse so as to pressurize the same toward the cover plate, wherein overheat sensing responsiveness of the heating element is improved such that the overheat of the heating element can be prevented, and failure factors in a part in which the temperature fuse is coupled are reduced such that a durability is improved.

A method of operating a cooling system for a vehicle including providing a cooling system including a coolant loop having a coolant valve, a first refrigerant loop having a first compressor and a first chiller configured to exchange heat with the coolant loop, a second refrigerant loop having a second compressor and a second chiller configured to exchange heat with the coolant loop, and a cooling system controller operably coupled to the first compressor, the second compressor, and the coolant valve. The coolant valve is configured to selectively direct or prevent the flow of coolant between the battery and each of the first chiller and the second chiller. The method further includes operating the cooling system in one of a second chiller only mode, a first chiller only mode, an air conditioning (AC) only mode, a first refrigerant loop only mode, and a dual refrigerant loop mode.

A vehicle thermal management system including an electric powertrain, a single thermal loop, and a controller is provided. The electric powertrain includes a high voltage battery. The single thermal loop is for managing thermal conditions of the high voltage battery and a vehicle cabin and may include a climate control system, a blower, and a front evaporator in fluid communication with the vehicle cabin. The controller is programmed to, responsive to detection of a climate control system off request, output a command to direct the blower to push air through a heater core to the vehicle cabin at a predetermined temperature such that a temperature within the vehicle cabin is maintained at a predetermined temperature and refrigerant continues to flow through the front evaporator. The system may include a vehicle cabin temperature sensor and an ambient temperature sensor, each in electrical communication with the controller.