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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Jaguar Land Rover Limited, Warwickshire, GB;
William Hutchins, Coventry, GB;
Stuart Briscoe, Coventry, GB;
JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITED, Whitley, Coventry, GB;
Abstract
A method of controlling the temperature of an engine of a vehicle, such as an internal combustion engine and/or the temperature of one or more auxiliary components of the vehicle, such as a cabin heater for the vehicle includes monitoring one or more parameters of the engine including the temperature of the engine. Optionally data relating to the temperature of the engine is feedback to a control unit. The method includes monitoring one or more requirements of the one or more auxiliary components of the vehicle and/or monitoring one or more parameters of the one or more auxiliary components of the vehicle. In dependence upon said monitoring, the method includes selecting a cooling mode for a cooling system disposed about said engine and said one or more auxiliary components.