Denso Corporation

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

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Hiroshi Kishita

Yasushi Yamanaka

Nobuharu Kakehashi

Yoshiaki Takano

Yasuhiko Niimi

Keiichi Uno

Hironori Asa

Hiroshi Ogawa

Kenichi Fujiwara

Atsushi Inaba

Koichi Ban

Yasumitsu Omi

Shigeo Numazawa

Yasuhiro Takeuchi

Yasuyuki Nishi

Kurato Yamasaki

Masayuki Takeuchi

Michio Nishikawa

Toshinobu Homan

Hideaki Okawa

Yoshimitsu Inoue

Shigeki Iwanami

Takashi Yamanaka

Kazuhide Uchida

Norihiko Enomoto

Masamichi Makihara

Hideji Yoshida

Yoshitaka Tomatsu

Yuichi Shirota

Hideki Suzuki

Mitsuyo Oomura

Akihiro Imura

Tadashi Nakagawa

Takeshi Wakisaka

Satoshi Mizutani

Kouji Miura

Masaki Morita

Yukihiro Yamashita

Hikaru Sugi

Yoshiki Katoh

Takayoshi Kawai

Jun Hasegawa

Hajime Ito

Mikio Matsuda

Satoshi Itoh

Takashi Fujiwara

Seiji Inoue

Makoto Yoshida

Koji Miura

Hiroshi Nonoyama

Satoshi Izawa

Takeshi Sakai

Hirohito Matsui

Koji Takahashi

Toshihiko Muraki

Yasutaka Kuroda

Keita Honda

Masafumi Nakashima

Kiyoshi Usami

Kazuhito Miyagawa

Takayoshi Matsuno

Yasuhiro Kawase

Hiroyasu Kato

Kouji Yamashita

Yasukazu Kitamine

Hirofumi Mokuya

Keigo Satou

Masayoshi Enomoto

Kideki Suzuki

Kouji Takahashi

Masayoshi Naka

Masashi Iwai

Yashushi Yamanaka

A vehicular temperature regulation device includes a refrigeration cycle, a high-temperature cycle, and a low-temperature cycle. The refrigeration cycle includes a heating heat exchanger configured to heat the heat medium in the high-temperature cycle by exchanging heat between the refrigerant and the heat medium, and a cooling heat exchanger configured to cool the heat medium in the low-temperature cycle by exchanging heat between the refrigerant and the heat medium. The vehicular temperature regulation device includes a connection portion that connects the high-temperature cycle and the low-temperature cycle, a regulation portion configured to regulate a flow of the heat medium, and a controller. After the controller stops the compressor, or after the controller receives a stop command of stopping the compressor, the controller controls the regulation portion, a first pump, and a second pump to exchange the heat medium between the high-temperature cycle and the low-temperature cycle.

Vehicular temperature regulation device

An air conditioner for a vehicle includes a pump that draws and discharges a heat medium, a cooler core that exchanges sensible heat between the heat medium and ventilation air into a vehicle interior to cool and dehumidify the ventilation air, a heat-medium and outside-air heat exchanger that exchanges sensible heat between the heat medium and outside air, a compressor adapted to draw and discharge a refrigerant in a refrigeration cycle, a heat-medium cooling heat exchanger that cools the heat medium by exchanging heat between a low-pressure side refrigerant in the refrigeration cycle and the heat medium, and first and second switching valves that switch between a first dehumidification mode for circulation of the heat medium between the cooler core and the heat-medium cooling heat exchanger and a second dehumidification mode for circulation of the heat medium between the cooler core and the heat-medium and outside-air heat exchanger.

Air conditioner for vehicle

A vehicular heat management system has a compressor, a heat-medium heating heat exchanger, and a flow adjustment part. The compressor draws and discharges a refrigerant. The heat-medium heating heat exchanger causes a heat exchange between the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and a heat medium other than air and heats the heat medium. The flow adjustment part causes a flow of a cooling fluid cooling the refrigerant when the compressor is stopped. The vehicular heat management system further has a refrigeration cycle unit and a refrigerant-flow-path forming member. The refrigeration cycle unit includes devices configuring a refrigeration cycle. The refrigerant-flow-path forming member (i) is disposed in a low-temperature area having an air temperature that is lower than an air temperature in an area in which the refrigeration cycle unit is disposed, and (ii) passes a refrigerant in the refrigeration cycle flows.

Vehicular heat management system

A vehicle temperature control apparatus for controlling temperature of a temperature control object, which is at least one of inside air of a vehicle compartment and a vehicle component, includes a heat capacitive element capable of storing heat, a refrigeration cycle in which heat is absorbed from a low temperature side and is dissipated to a high temperature side, a heat exchanger that causes the heat capacitive element to exchange heat with refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle, and a heat dissipation portion which dissipates heat in the refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle to the temperature control object. Thus, a temperature control by using the heat capacitive element can be effectively performed.

Vehicle temperature control apparatus and in-vehicle thermal system

A battery temperature regulating device is applied to a battery pack configured by parallely connecting battery groups, each of which is a series connection of battery cells capable of charge and discharge. The device regulates temperatures of the battery groups. The battery temperature regulating device includes a heat transfer unit that transfers heat of a part of the battery groups to another battery group.

Battery temperature regulating device

An engine and an electronic control unit perform cooling capacity increase control for compensating for a insufficiency of the cooling capacity of a cooling device. The electronic control unit performs a variety of control for a vehicle, including control of the cooling device. At that time, the electronic control unit calculates the target value of the cooling capacity of the cooling device, calculates the estimate value of the cooling capacity that will be able to be exerted in the future under the current control, compares the target value and the estimate value, and when it is determined from the result of the comparison that the cooling capacity will be insufficient, performs the cooling capacity increase control. The electronic control unit changes the contents of the cooling capacity increase control according to the degree of insufficiency of the estimate value with respect to the target value.

Control device for vehicle

A vehicular thermo-control device adjusts a temperature of a battery. The device has a primary system through which cooling water circulates, and a secondary system through which a refrigerant circulates. The primary system has a heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the battery and the cooling water, and a heat exchanger which performs heat exchange between the cooling water and an ambient air. The secondary system is a refrigerating cycle. Both heat exchangers on a high temperature side and a low temperature side of the refrigerating cycle are thermally coupled with the primary system. Only one heat exchanger provides heat exchange with the ambient air. The pump of the primary system can switch circulating direction of the cooling water. A controller controls devices to perform cooling and heating operation.

Vehicular thermo-control device

By employing a heat source control section that controls the operating state of an internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle, a necessary heat calculating section that calculates the engine coolant temperature needed by a heater core, which consumes the heat supplied from the engine through engine coolant water, and the time at which this engine coolant temperature becomes necessary, a heat supply estimating section that estimates engine coolant temperature at the aforementioned time in a case in which the engine is operated continuously in the current operating state, and a heat generation increase requesting section that requests the heat source control section to increase heat generation quantity of the engine when the engine coolant temperature estimated by the heat supply estimating section is less than the engine coolant temperature calculated by the necessary heat calculating section, the heat necessary for the heater core is supplied more efficiently and adequately.

A complex fluid machine has an expansion-compressor device, a pump, and a motor generator, wherein the expansion-compressor device, the pump, and the motor generator are operatively connected and arranged in series, and a power transmitting device for disconnecting the pump from the motor generator, when the expansion-compressor device is driven by the motor generator so as to be operated as a compressor device.

Refrigerating apparatus and fluid machine therefor

A waste heat recovery apparatus including a Rankine cycle which includes a heater for heating an operation fluid by waste heat from a heat-generating device, an expansion unit for converting energy of expansion of the operation fluid flowing out from the heater into mechanical energy, and a condenser for condensing and liquefying the expanded operation fluid, a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the operation fluid on the inlet side of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting inlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, a pressure detector for detecting outlet-side pressure of the expansion unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls a command rotational speed of the expansion unit based on superheated degree information at the inlet of the expansion unit obtained from the operation fluid temperature and the inlet-side pressure, and pressure information in which the outlet-side pressure is considered.

Waste heat recovery apparatus

It is an object to provide a fluid machine, which is simple in structure and in which lubricating oil containing smaller amount of the working fluid is supplied to sliding portions of an expansion device. The fluid machine has the expansion device for generating a driving force by expansion of the working fluid, which contains the lubricating oil and is heated to a gas phase condition. The fluid machine further has an electric power generating device driven by the driving force of the expansion device and generating electric power. An oil pooling portion is formed in a fluid passage, through which the working fluid discharged from the expansion device flows, such that the lubricating oil contained in the working fluid is brought into contact with at least one of sliding portions of the expansion device and the electric power generating device. And a heating unit is provided to heat the working fluid in the oil pooling portion.

Fluid machine for rankine cycle

A complex fluid machine has an expansion-compressor device, a pump, and a motor generator. The expansion-compressor device, the pump, and the motor generator are operatively connected and arranged in series. A portion of an outlet side passage formed in the fluid machine, through which the working fluid flows from the expansion device, is arranged adjacent to a portion of a pump outlet-side passage formed in the fluid machine, through which the working fluid flows from the pump, so that heat of the working fluid in the outlet side passage is transferred to the working fluid in the pump outlet-side passage.

Fluid pump having expansion device and rankine cycle using the same

A controller reduces a rotational speed of a Rankine cycle from a predetermined normal rotational speed during an operation of a compressor in a predetermined state when the controller determines that a predicted refrigerant flow quantity, which is predicted by assuming that the compressor is operated in a sole operation of the Rankine cycle at the predetermined normal rotational speed of the Rankine cycle, exceeds a predetermined flow quantity. The predetermined state is a state that satisfies a predetermined condition, which relates to the sole operation of the Rankine cycle.

Refrigeration system including refrigeration cycle and rankine cycle

A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus includes a dehumidification means, which has a compressor and dehumidifies inside of the vehicle, a humidity calculation means, which calculates humidity in the vicinity of an inside surface of the windshield, and a determination means, which determines whether the windshield is fogged on the basis of comparison between the humidity and a predetermined value. A defogging operation for heightening dehumidifying performance of the dehumidification means is performed, when the determination means determines that the windshield is fogged in a state where the compressor is turned on. The dehumidifying performance of the dehumidification means is lowered or condition in which the defogging operation is started is made to be difficult in the next defogging operation, when the windshield is determined to be fogged and the defogging operation is not manually performed in a state where the compressor is turned off.

Vehicle air-conditioning apparatus that can surely defog window

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