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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2002
Reiner Hohl, Stuttgart, DE;
Manfred Schmitt, Heppenheim, DE;
Karsten Mann, Stuttgart, DE;
Oliver Kaefer, Murr, DE;
Reiner Hohl, Stuttgart, DE;
Manfred Schmitt, Heppenheim, DE;
Karsten Mann, Stuttgart, DE;
Oliver Kaefer, Murr, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
The current invention relates to an apparatus for cooling and/or heating a motor vehicle, with at least one coolant pump for circulating a coolant in a cooling and heating system, with a main cooler segment, which has a main cooler inlet and a main cooler outlet, wherein the main cooler inlet is at least intermittently connected to at least one coolant outlet of an engine to be cooled, in particular an internal combustion engine, of the vehicle, and its main cooler outlet is connected to at least one coolant inlet of the engine, and with at least one other, secondary cooler segment provided in addition to the main cooler segment and at least one other unit to be cooled, which is connected to the cooling and heating system, and the apparatus have at least one bypass line with a bypass valve, which is associated with the at least one secondary cooler segment and is disposed parallel to this secondary cooler segment in the cooling and heating system of the motor vehicle.