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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2017
Applicant:
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL (US);
Inventor:
Thomas Aldridge, Burnie, AU;
Assignee:
Caterpillar Inc., Deerfield, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/32 (2006.01); B60L 11/18 (2006.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01); H02K 9/19 (2006.01); B60K 11/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/323 (2013.01); B60H 1/00278 (2013.01); B60H 1/00378 (2013.01); B60L 11/1874 (2013.01); B60L 11/1875 (2013.01); H02K 9/19 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00307 (2013.01); B60K 11/02 (2013.01); B60L 2200/40 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/41 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/91 (2013.01);
Abstract
A temperature control system includes cooling circuitry, refrigerant circuitry, and flow control circuitry. A valve mechanism in the flow control circuitry is adjustable between a closed state and an open state to transition the cooling circuitry between a series-flow configuration and a parallel-flow configuration, and to thermally decouple and thermally couple the cooling circuitry from the refrigerant circuitry.