Behr Gmbh & Co.

Mahle International Gmbh

Behr Gmbh Co. Kg

Sueddeutsche Kuehlerfabrik Julius Fr. Behr Gmbh & Co. Kg

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Behr-hella Thermocontrol Gmbh

Mahle Behr Gmbh & Co. Kg

Mahle Behr France Rouffach Sas

Wilhelm Baruschke

Karl Lochmahr

Oliver Kaefer

Roland Burk

Hans-Joachim Krauss

Michael Kohl

Kurt Hauser

Klaus Voigt

Dietrich Klingler

Hans Kampf

Thomas Strauss

Joachim Treier

Werner Helms

Michael Sickelmann

Michel Brun

Reinhold Weible

Dieter Schmadl

Jean-Philippe Gries

Josef Kern

Markus Flik

Matthias Banzhaf

Dieter Bauer

Hans-Joachim Ingelmann

Jochen Eitel

Tilo Rinckleb

Eric Pitz

Ottokar Kunberger

Andreas Kemle

Armin Britsch-Laudwein

Arthur Heberle

Rolf Wallner

Werner Rojnica

Joachim Raimann

Alexander Boehlendorf

Matthias Kies

Markus Speer

Juergen Barwig

Ralf Manski

Thomas Gerken

Sascha Lindauer

Erwan Gogmos

Rolf Müller

Andreas Liermann

Thomas Dipl-Ing Finkeldei

Karl Dipl-Ing Lochmahr

Michael Dipl-Ing Brun

Erwan Dipl-Ing Gogmos

Jürgen Otto

Thomas Dipl-Ing Strauss

Laurent Gautsch

Oliver Lubritz

Jérôme Heitz

Michael Dipl-Ing Kohl

The invention relates to a method for operating a circuit having a heat accumulator, having a coolant circuit, having a heat accumulator in a line of the circuit and having at least one valve and one pump, wherein, when the valve is open, the heat accumulator can be charged with coolant from the coolant circuit by means of the pump, or coolant can be discharged from the heat accumulator into the coolant circuit, wherein the charging or discharging of the heat accumulator takes place in an open-loop-controlled or closed-loop-controlled manner as a function of a temperature difference of a temperature of the coolant in the circuit and a temperature of the coolant in the heat accumulator.

Method for a circuit with heat accumulator

The invention relates to a method for regulating a coolant circuit () of a vehicle air conditioning system (). According to said method, a target value (SW(VT)) for an evaporator temperature (VT) is predetermined in a base control circuit. Said value is used to determine a control value (U) for controlling the evaporator temperature (VT) by means of an evaporator temperature regulator (). Said control value is also fed to a ventilator fan controller ().

Method and device for regulating a coolant circuit of a vehicle air conditioning system

The invention relates to a method and system for controlling a compressor in a refrigerant circuit of an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle. The instantaneous load torque is determined and compared with a maximum limiting torque prescribed by an engine controller, and the compressor is controlled depending on the comparison value resulting therefrom. In order to avoid complete shutdown of the compressor, the instantaneous load torque is represented as a function of variables, such as compressor speed and high pressure of the refrigerant, and, using an inverted function belonging to this function, a control signal for the compressor, for example, a set-point value for the high pressure of the refrigerant, is determined as a function of the maximum limiting torque and employed to control the compressor.

Method and system for controlling a compressor

The invention relates to a sensor for detecting the direction and intensity of solar insolation, particularly, for controlling an air conditioning system, having at least two sensor elements that, are assigned to the left-hand and right-hand sides of the vehicle, respectively, and are arranged on a respective face whose surfaces are, at least partially, subject to the solar insolation entering the vehicle from the left-hand and right-hand sides, respectively. To provide an improved sensor that is particularly cost effective and can be fitted simply into a vehicle to control an air conditioning system, the sensor elements are designed as temperature sensors and are each connected in a heat conducting manner to their associated surfaces, which surfaces absorb, at least, most of the solar insolation which is incident thereon.

Sensor for detecting solar insolation

A process and an arrangement for controlling an air conditioner utilize an evaporator protected against icing and a refrigerant circulating system which includes at least one compressor and the evaporator. The evaporator temperature is sensed continuously and the compressor is deactivated when the evaporator temperature falls below a defined switch-off temperature. The compressor is activated again when the evaporator temperature exceeds a defined switch-on temperature which is at least equal to the switch-off temperature. The evaporator temperature gradient is determined by a corresponding control unit from the continuous sensing of the evaporator temperature. The switch-off temperature is variably defined as a function of the determined temperature gradient and is selected so as to rise with a negative evaporator temperature gradient, having an amount which increases, during operating phases with an activated compressor and/or with a falling positive evaporator temperature gradient during operating phases with a deactivated compressor.

Process and arrangement for an air conditioner control with an

A rotary fluid-control valve for controlling fluid flow has a cylindrical valve chamber, a dove-tail shaped valve body mounted rotatably in the valve chamber and movable between an open position and a closed position, and four fluid passages extending from the valve chamber. The passages are arranged essentially parallel with respect to one another and the valve body is pivotally connected to the valve chamber with a pivot pin extending in the axial direction of the valve chamber. The passages extend perpendicular to the pivot pin. The valve chamber has a convex section that, when the valve body is rotated out of the closed position, causes an asymptotic rise in the throughflow quantity. A stop or pressure equalizing projection projects into the valve chamber and is dimensioned so that a pressure drop in the closed position of the valve body corresponds to a pressure drop of the radiator in the open position of the valve body. The valve body further has a concave portion extending along one side of the first and second valve arms to provide a homogenous bypass flowthrough through the valve chamber.

Rotary valve

A device and method for controlling air conduction in a vehicle includes an air conduction element. The air conduction element is controlled as a function of the moisture in the vehicle interior, intermediate positions of the air conduction element being possible between a maximum proportion of circulating air and a maximum proportion of fresh air. In this way, the proportion of fresh air is increased only gradually when there is a high pollution impact if the interior moisture does not exceed a maximum moisture value .PHI..sub.max. Control of the moisture in the vehicle interior increases the comfort of the vehicle occupants. A circulating-air dryer makes it possible, in principle, to continue in circulating-air operation for an unlimited period.

Device and method for controlling air conduction elements of a vehicle

A method and circuit are provided for on/off control of the compressor of a motor vehicle air conditioner, in which the compressor is shut off when the evaporator temperature measured by an evaporator temperature sensor drops below a presettable shutoff temperature value located above 0.degree. C. The shutoff temperature value is set to fall as a function of the evaporator blower power and/or the temperature of the air drawn in by the evaporator blower with rising blower power or with rising intake air temperature. The circuit includes a control stage whose output signal is fed to an on/off switching element of the compressor and depends on the voltage level at an input node, which varies with the supply voltage of the evaporator blower and/or the output voltage of the intake air temperature sensor.

Method and circuit for on/off control of the compressor of a motor

Device for cooling drive components and heating a passenger compartment

A cooling system for a vehicle having an internal-combustion engine has a plurality of cooling circuits with heat exchangers for each circuit. The temperatures of different cooling media are measured and processed in a switching device to form an output signal which serves to control a fan. In this way, the air flow through the heat exchangers can be varied depending on measured temperature conditions. Individual capacity control of each cooling circuit is possible, thereby preventing unfavorable operating conditions in the individual circuits. The cooling capacity demand of the individual cooling circuits is determined by a central control unit which receives signals from temperature sensors in each circuit. The central control unit includes a microprocessor. Each cooling circuit has an actuating means for individually controlling the capacity of the relevant heat exchanger.

Cooling system for a vehicle having an internal-combustion engine

A method for controlling a motor vehicle air conditioning system is described. The motor vehicle air conditioning system comprises a refrigeration circuit including a refrigerant compressor, a condenser, an evaporator and a throttle device arranged upstream of the evaporator. The condenser is associated with a ventilating fan and the evaporator is associated with a blower. The compressor capacity, the condenser capacity and the evaporator capacity are directly or indirectly sensed by sensor means and supplied as electrical variables to an electronic control circuit which logically combines these input signals and generates output signals in dependence on at least two of these capacity values and including further parameters. The control circuit acts on electrically controllable acturators for influencing the compressor capacity, the condenser capacity and/or the evaporator capacity.

Method for controlling a motor vehicle air conditioning system

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Wilhelm Baruschke