The disclosure relates to the field of electric vehicles, and in particular provides a vehicle refrigerator control method, a storage medium, and a vehicle, aiming to solve the problems of how to implement the intelligent identification of items stored in a vehicle refrigerator, and of controlling the vehicle refrigerator based on information of the stored item and vehicle state information. To this end, the method of the disclosure includes: obtaining item information of a vehicle refrigerator; obtaining a real-time temperature and a target temperature of the vehicle refrigerator; obtaining vehicle state information; and controlling the vehicle refrigerator based on the real-time temperature, the target temperature, and the vehicle state information. By applying the method of the disclosure, the user can quickly and accurately know the information of the item stored in the vehicle refrigerator, a suitable target temperature can be automatically set based on the item information, and the vehicle refrigerator can be controlled, based on the vehicle state information, to operate in different modes. The method of the disclosure not only optimizes the control over the vehicle refrigerator, satisfies the refrigeration requirement, but also solves the problems of NVH and vehicle energy consumption, etc, thereby providing users with a more comfortable experience.

Disclosed are a vehicle air conditioning control system and method, the vehicle air conditioning control system including a controller configured to receive a target temperature and a sensor value and determine an optimal control variable on the basis of a cost function that reflects energy consumption and following-up performance in following up the target temperature received by using a control model, and a plant configured to receive the control variable determined by the controller and operate to cool or heat a vehicle interior on the basis of the received control variable.

A cooling device for, for example, a cooling object has a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator, in which a cold air flow for the cooling object exchanges heat with the refrigerant, and a defrosting system for de-icing the evaporator. The defrosting system is controlled according to the degree of icing of the evaporator. The degree of icing of the evaporator is determined by the control unit of the defrosting system on the basis of the temperature of the cold air flow from the cooling object to the evaporator, the temperature and/or the operating pressure of the refrigerant upstream of the evaporator and at least one operating parameter of the compressor.

A control system (300) for a transport engineless refrigeration unit (301), the control system including: a controller (302) for communication between a vehicle (307) and a plurality of vehicle devices, the controller comprising: a vehicle data connection (306) for transmitting data to and from a vehicle; a vehicle engine on/off connection (308) for triggering start-up of the vehicle engine; a plurality of device data connections (314), each device data connection transmits data to and from at least one device external to the controller; and a device power connection (313), the device power connection supplies power from the controller to at least one device external to the controller.

A control system (300) for a transport engineless refrigeration unit (301), the control system including: a controller (302) for communication between a vehicle (307) and a plurality of vehicle devices, the controller comprising: a vehicle data connection (306) for transmitting data to and from a vehicle; a vehicle engine on/off connection (308) for triggering start-up of the vehicle engine; a plurality of device data connections (314), each device data connection transmits data to and from at least one device external to the controller; and a device power connection (313), the device power connection supplies power from the controller to at least one device external to the controller.

Disclosed are climate systems for vehicles and methods for controlling the climate systems. In some implementations, a climate system includes: (1) a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature within the compartment of the vehicle; (2) a first compressor powered by an engine of the vehicle to compress a refrigerant; (3) a second compressor driven by an electric motor to compress the refrigerant; and (4) a controller electrically coupled to the first compressor and the second compressor. The controller configured to: (1) calculate a thermal load of the compartment based on a difference between a desired temperature and a measured temperature; and, (2) based on the calculated load, selectively activate: (i) the engine, (ii) the first compressor, and/or (iii) the second compressor.

An abnormality diagnosis device that performs an abnormality diagnosis on a blower system that sends air to a plurality of air receiving objects obtains a target operating state of an airflow control device that controls airflow to the air receiving objects, obtains a temperature detected by a temperature sensor that detects a first temperature as a temperature of air fed to a first air receiving object as one of the air receiving objects or a temperature of the first air receiving object, estimates the first temperature, based on the target operating state of the airflow control device, and performs abnormality diagnosis on the airflow control device. The abnormality diagnosis device determines that there is an abnormality in the airflow control device, when a difference between the detected first temperature and the estimated first temperature is equal to or larger than a predetermined first reference value.

An air conditioning system, a vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle with a vehicle air conditioning system are provided. The vehicle air conditioning system has a refrigeration circuit having a compressor, a condenser, and an evaporator in sequential fluid communication, with a valve assembly and a battery chiller positioned for parallel flow with the evaporator. A cooling circuit in the vehicle has a chiller. A controller is configured to, in response to a temperature of the evaporator being less than a first predetermined value and the compressor operating at a predetermined speed, open the valve assembly to divert a portion of refrigerant through the chiller and away from the evaporator. The refrigerant may be diverted, for example, to raise the temperature of the evaporator and/or prevent cycling of the compressor.

A method for controlling torque of an air conditioner compressor is disclosed. In one example, the air conditioner compressor is a variable displacement compressor. The method may provide smooth transitions between different air conditioner compressor torques.

A transportation refrigeration unit TRU and power system. The TRU (26) and power system including a compressor (58) configured to compress a refrigerant, an evaporator heat exchanger (76) operatively coupled to the compressor (58), and an evaporator fan (98) configured to provide return airflow (134) and flow the return airflow (134) over the evaporator heat exchanger (76). The system also includes a return air temperature RAT sensor (142) disposed in the return airflow (134) and configured measure the temperature of the return airflow (134), a TRU controller (82) operably connected to the RAT sensor (142) and configured to execute a process to determine an AC power requirement for the TRU (26) based on at least the RAT (142); a generator power converter (164) configured to receive a generator three phase AC power and provide DC power (165b) to an energy storage system (150), a power management system (124), the power management system (124) configured to direct power to the TRU (26) based on the AC power requirement.