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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2004
Applicants:

Atsushi Inaba, Kariya, JP;

Shinichi Hamada, Anjo, JP;

Shigeru Hisanaga, Kariya, JP;

Tadashi Hotta, Okazaki, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Inaba, Kariya, JP;

Shinichi Hamada, Anjo, JP;

Shigeru Hisanaga, Kariya, JP;

Tadashi Hotta, Okazaki, JP;

Assignees:

DENSO Corporation, Kariya, JP;

Nippon Soken, Inc., Nishio, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01K023/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a rankine cycle suitable for a use for a motor vehicle. In a waste heat collecting system having the rankine cycle and a refrigerating cycle, when ECU receives an air-conditioning signal from A/C ECU, the refrigerating cycle is operated, by preceding the operation of the rankine cycle. In the case that there is no air-conditioning signal and a temperature of an engine cooling water is higher than a predetermined value, the rankine cycle is operated.


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