A climate system for providing air to a cab of a vehicle includes a first conduit, an outlet end of the first conduit being adapted to be arranged inside of the cab, a pressurized air source, an inlet end of the first conduit being connected to the pressurized air source for supplying compressed air into the cab by the first conduit.

A refrigerant cycle device includes a compressor, a radiator, a first expansion valve, a second expansion valve, a first evaporator, a second evaporator, and a controller. The controller is configured to switch between a first evaporator priority control and a second evaporator priority control. During the first evaporator priority control, the controller controls a throttle opening of the second expansion valve based on at least one of a temperature of a first evaporator, a temperature of a refrigerant flowing through the first evaporator, and a temperature of an air having exchanged heat in the first evaporator. During the second evaporator priority mode, the controller controls the throttle opening based on a refrigerant state of the second evaporator. When the at least one of the temperatures is equal to or greater than a switching temperature, the second priority mode is switched to the first priority mode.

A vehicle thermal management system includes a vehicle heat pump system, a battery system coolant loop, a drive train coolant loop, and control electronics. The vehicle heat pump system includes a compressor, a cabin condenser, a cabin evaporator, a cabin blower, and a chiller. The battery system coolant loop is in thermal communication with a battery system and with the chiller and selectively in thermal communication with the drive train coolant loop. The control electronics control the components of the vehicle thermal management system to heat the cabin, cool the cabin, heat the battery system, cool the battery system, and cool the drive train. The control electronics may control the compressor to operate in an efficient mode or a lossy mode in which the compressor generates heat. The control electronics may also control the components of the vehicle thermal management system to precondition the battery.

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 climate control system of a motor vehicle having a refrigeration circuit and a coolant circuit. The refrigeration circuit includes a compressor, a refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger operable as a condenser/gas cooler for heat exchange between the refrigerant and the coolant of the coolant circuit, and at least one first refrigerant-air heat exchanger for conditioning intake air for the passenger compartment having a first expansion element upstream in a flow direction of the refrigerant. The coolant circuit includes a conveyor device, a first coolant-air heat exchanger heating the intake air for the passenger compartment, and the refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger. A refrigerant-air heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the refrigerant and ambient air is provided. The refrigerant-air heat exchanger is arranged downstream of the first refrigerant-coolant heat exchanger in the flow direction of the refrigerant. An expansion element is upstream of the refrigerant-air heat exchanger in the flow direction of the refrigerant.

Mice are provided that comprise a reduction or deletion of ADAM6 activity from an endogenous ADAM6 locus, or that lack an endogenous locus encoding a mouse ADAM6 protein, wherein the mice comprise a sequence encoding an ADAM6 or ortholog or homolog or fragment thereof that is functional in a male mouse. In one embodiment, the sequence is an ectopic ADAM6 sequence or a sequence that confers upon a male mouse the ability to generate offspring by mating. Mice and cells with genetically modified immunoglobulin heavy chain loci that comprise an ectopic nucleotide sequence encoding a mouse ADAM6 or functional fragment or homolog or ortholog thereof are also provided.

A vehicular cooling device includes: a main cooling system including a compressor, a condenser, a liquid receiver, an expansion valve, an evaporator, a first refrigerant flow line connecting the compressor and the condenser, a second refrigerant flow line connecting the condenser and the liquid receiver, a third refrigerant flow line connecting the liquid receiver and the expansion valve, a fourth refrigerant flow line connecting the expansion valve and the evaporator, and a fifth refrigerant flow line connecting the evaporator and the compressor; and a sub-cooling system for enabling the refrigerant to flow to including the liquid receiver, the third refrigerant flow line, the expansion valve, the fourth refrigerant flow line, the evaporator, and a pre-cooling means disposed between the evaporator and the compressor, an absorbent tank storing an absorbent and a sixth refrigerant flow line connecting the absorbent tank to the fifth refrigerant flow line.

A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging portion, a reservoir that performs gas-liquid separation on a gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant that flows out from the heat exchanging portion into a gas-phase refrigerant and a liquid-phase refrigerant and stores the liquid-phase refrigerant, and an inflow passage that allows the gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant flowing out from the heat exchanging portion to flow into the reservoir. The inflow passage is connected so as to be in communication with an inlet port of the reservoir which is disposed above a liquid surface of the liquid-phase refrigerant stored in the reservoir.

In a heat pump system, when a heat-shock determination portion determines that a difference between a coolant temperature in a coolant flow path and a coolant temperature in a heat source flow path is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature, a flow-path switching portion mixes the respective coolants flowing through at least a bypass flow path and the heat source flow path together to flow into the coolant flow path.

A method for cooling and/or heating a body or a fluid in a motor vehicle using a system including a steam compression circuit in which flows a first heat transfer composition and a secondary circuit in which flows a second heat transfer composition. Also, an installation for cooling and/or heating a body or a fluid in a motor vehicle, a use for cooling and/or heating a body or a fluid in a motor vehicle, and a heat transfer composition including one or more heat transfer compounds having a boiling point between 0 and 40 C., chosen from among the hydrochlorofluoroolefins, the hydrofluoroolefins and combinations thereof.