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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2020
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Takayuki Shimauchi, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/32 (2006.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00278 (2013.01); B60H 1/004 (2013.01); B60H 1/3205 (2013.01); B60H 1/3227 (2013.01); B60H 2001/3241 (2013.01); B60H 2001/3255 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle air conditioner includes a heat pump system and an air conditioner ECU that controls the heat pump system. An operation mode of the heat pump system includes an air cooling mode, an air heating mode, a serial dehumidification air-heating mode, a parallel dehumidification air-heating mode, a battery-only cooling mode, and an air-cooling battery-cooling mode. The air conditioner ECU separately sets conditions for permitting cooling of a battery, depending on the operation mode.