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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2019
Apparatus for controlling the temperature of a vehicle component using an anti-icing unblocking unit
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Christian Jolk, Cologne, DE;
Johann Wegers, Köln, DE;
Helmut Hoyer, Königswinter, DE;
Thomas Nitsche, Neuss, DE;
Bernd Brinkmann, Dormagen, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling the temperature of a vehicle component, in particular of an internal combustion engine, by way of a cooling apparatus of the vehicle using at least one moving air guide which controls a cooling air stream. The apparatus has an anti-icing unblocking unit which is designed in such a way that it can release the air guide which has been blocked by ice and/or snow, so that the slats or the like which serve as the air guide are fully operational again. To this end, the anti-icing unblocking unit is designed to melt the ice and/or the snow.