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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2013
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Mark G. Smith, Canton, MI (US);
James George Gebbie, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Franco Ragazzi, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Clay Wesley Maranville, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/04 (2006.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/04 (2013.01); B60H 1/00921 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00928 (2013.01);
Abstract
A climate control system having a coolant subsystem, a heat pump subsystem, and an intermediate heat exchanger. The intermediate heat exchanger may transfer thermal energy from the heat pump subsystem to the coolant to increase the temperature of the coolant when the climate control system is in a heating mode.