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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2018
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cooling apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes a cooler, a traffic congestion determining unit, a cooling amount calculator, and a cooler controller. The cooling amount calculator calculates first and second cooling amounts respectively based on a heat-generation amount of a heat-generating device and a noise level inside a vehicle. The cooler controller controls the cooler on the basis of a set cooling amount. The cooler controller controls the cooler to cool the heat-generating device on the basis of the set cooling amount larger than the first cooling amount and equal to or smaller than the second cooling amount and limits a decrease rate of the set cooling amount to be smaller than an increase rate of the set cooling amount, on a condition that the traveling road is determined by the traffic congestion determining unit as being congested and the first cooling amount is smaller than the second cooling amount.