Valeo Systemes Thermiques

Daniel Neveu

Josselin Gour

Stefan Karl

Mohamed Yahia

Didier Loup

Didier Barat

Georges De Pelsemaeker

Xavier Rousseil

Sophie Bede

Lucas Trevalinet

Vincent Feuillard

Thierry Elbhar

Klaus Wittmann

Laurent Rede

Thomas Carton

Jean-Luc Thuez

Mohamed-Amine Boubaker

Gilles Rivet

Jean Luc Thuez

Clement Bassignani

Jeremie Zoubairi

Omar Zoubairi

Moussa Nacer-Bey

The invention relates to a thermal management system for a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, the system comprising a processing unit designed to determine an operative temperature setpoint TOC(t), also referred to as the operative comfort temperature, at a given time, and to use this operative temperature setpoint to manage the thermal comfort in the passenger compartment, said operative temperature setpoint TOC(t) at the given time (t) being a function of a reference operative temperature value (TOCRef), a variation DeltaCORP(t) of a physical build value CORP(t) of a person at the time (t) relative to a reference physical build value, a variation DeltaCLO(t) of a clothing value CLO(t) at the time (t) relative to a reference clothing value and a variation DeltaMET(t) of a value of the metabolic activity MET(t) at the time(t) relative to a value of the reference metabolic activity.

Thermal management system for a motor vehicle

The invention concerns a ventilator for a motor vehicle passenger compartment, intended to deliver an air flow towards a space to be conditioned, which comprises: an opening through which an air flow flows during operation, a flared guiding surface (S), extending from the opening, a needle valve () comprising a needle valve head () with: a tip () situated at the end of the needle valve (), a maximum width portion corresponding in shape to the opening (O), with dimensions of between 80% and 100% of those of the opening (O), a base () flared in the direction of flow linking the head () to an elongate body (), the needle valve () being able to move in translation between two end positions including: a deployed end position in which the widest portion of the needle valve head () is downstream from the opening (O) in the direction of the space to be conditioned, the air flow then being laminar and guided by the guiding surface (S) in a divergent flow, a retracted end position in which the widest portion of the needle valve head () is upstream from the opening (O), the air flow then being laminar and guided by the tip () of the needle valve () in a convergent flow.

Motor vehicle ventilator, thermal management device and method using such a motor vehicle ventilator

The invention concerns a device for identifying a clothing family index (Clo), the index in particular representing the type and level of clothing of a passenger of a motor vehicle, comprising: —at least one camera () designed to capture at least one image of a part of the clothing of the passenger (P), —a processing unit () designed to determine at least one clothing family index (Clo) by using a recognition algorithm based on a neural network model, trained in particular on a library () of representative images captured by the camera, images preferably categorised beforehand by a human operator.

Device for detecting the type and the level of clothing of a passenger of a motor vehicle utilizing a neural network

A heat control method for a heat control device, particularly for a vehicle interior, is disclosed. The method involves detecting, delimiting and positioning various parts of the body of an occupant (U), measuring thermal or physiological parameters regarding various parts of the body of the occupant (U) and/or the vehicle interior around the occupant (U), establishing a plurality of thermal comfort indices (I), each thermal comfort index (I) corresponding to one of the parts of the body of the occupant (U) taking into account a feeling of warmth or of cold in the associated body part, and of which the absolute value is at a minimum in a comfortable situation, and regulating the operation of a heat control device () to minimize a sum of the absolute values of the comfort indices (Σ|I|) in order to create a regulated thermal environment around the occupant (U).

Heat control method for a heat control device, particularly for a vehicle interior

The present invention relates to a system () for managing the thermal comfort of a person, in particular on board a motor vehicle, this system being designed to use at least one state characteristic of the person and/or of their thermal environment, this characteristic being able to adopt a plurality of values, this system being designed to: acquire, using a sensor, data relating to the person and/or to their thermal environment, this sensor being in particular a camera designed to acquire an image of the person and/or of their thermal environment, evaluate, on the basis of these acquired data, the probability of the state characteristic adopting a first value by associating a first confidence level with this first value.

System for managing the thermal comfort of a person

The invention relates to a device () for analysing infrared radiation emitted or reflected by at least one surface () of a motor vehicle () passenger compartment (), characterised in that said device comprises at least one infrared camera () arranged and oriented such as to measure at least part of the infrared radiation emitted or reflected by the at least one surface () of the passenger compartment ().

Device for analysing infrared radiation from a surface of a motor vehicle passenger compartment

The invention relates to a thermal management system () for a motor vehicle, comprising:

Thermal management system for a motor vehicle and corresponding thermal management method

The present invention relates to a control system () for the heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system of a motor vehicle, said control system () comprising: a first camera () sensitive to wavelengths in the mid-infrared spectrum, and a device () for processing and analysis of images, capable of performing temperature measurements on the images of the first camera () and of calculating, from said measurements, at least one thermal comfort coefficient of at least one occupant () of the motor vehicle, the thermal comfort coefficient being used for regulating the air temperature, the air flow rate and the air distribution within the heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system, the control system () further comprising a second camera () sensitive to wavelengths in the visible and/or near-infrared spectra.

Control system for air conditioning system of a motor vehicle

The invention relates to a thermal management system () for a motor vehicle, comprising: According to the invention, the control device () comprises at least one processing means () for: The invention also relates to a thermal management method implemented by such a system ().

The invention relates to a system for the heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning of a motor vehicle passenger compartment. The system includes at least one heat exchanger through which there flows a heat-transfer fluid. The system is equipped with at least one means for pumping the heat-transfer fluid at a flow rate of between 40 1/h and 200 1/h, in such a way that a temperature difference of the heat-transfer fluid between an outlet and an inlet of the heat exchanger is greater than 45&#xb0; C.

System for the heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning of a vehicle, comprising at least one heat exchanger through which a heat-transfer fluid flows

A heating and air conditioning devicefor an automotive vehicle, including a refrigerant circuitin which a refrigerant circulates between three distinctive unitsexchanging with respective secondary liquid loops. An evaporating unitis dedicated to the evaporation of the refrigerant when operating in a cooling mode. A cooling unitis dedicated to the cooling or condensation of the refrigerant when operating in the cooling mode as well as operating in the heating mode. A reversible unitis dedicated to the evaporation of the refrigerant when operating in the heating mode and dedicated to the cooling or condensation of the refrigerant when operating in the cooling mode.

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Daniel Neveu