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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2023
Applicants:
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/3225 (2013.01); B60H 1/3227 (2013.01); B60H 2001/3251 (2013.01); B60H 2001/3266 (2013.01); B60H 2001/3277 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus including an air conditioner device including a condenser, an expansion valve, an evaporator, and a compressor, a cooling fan configured to cool the condenser, wherein the cooling fan includes a fan motor and a blade, a sensing unit, and a controller configured to determine whether an operating condition of the cooling fan and a flooding condition of a vehicle are satisfied based on driving information of the vehicle detected by the sensing unit and to control an operation of the fan motor of the cooling fan according to whether the vehicle is flooded.