US 11,371,417 B2Granted

Installation structure of heat accumulator for vehicle

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsMasaki Nagakura, Hajime Uto, Masanobu Takazawa

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Abstract

Provided is an installation structure of a heat accumulator for a vehicle, provided on a back surface side of a bumper beam of the vehicle in the front portion of the vehicle and accumulates heat by storing a refrigerant. The bumper beam extends in the left-right direction of the vehicle and has a height dimension A in the vertical direction orthogonal to the length direction. The heat accumulator extends along the length direction of the bumper beam in a state of being close to a back surface of the bumper beam, and has a height dimension B in the vertical direction orthogonal to the length direction. The bumper beam and the heat accumulator are arranged with centers in the vertical direction coinciding with each other in the front-rear direction, and the height dimension B is set to A≤B≤1.6A with respect to the height dimension A.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An installation structure of a heat accumulator for a vehicle, which is provided on a back surface side of a component of the vehicle in a front portion of the vehicle and accumulates heat by storing a refrigerant, wherein

the component extends in a direction substantially orthogonal to a front-rear direction of the vehicle, and has a first width dimension A in a width direction orthogonal to a length direction thereof,
the heat accumulator for the vehicle extends along the length direction of the component in a state of being close to a back surface of the component, and has a second width dimension B in a width direction orthogonal to a length direction thereof, and
the component and the heat accumulator for the vehicle are arranged with centers in the width direction coinciding with each other in the front-rear direction, and the second width dimension B is set to A≤B≤1.6 A with respect to the first width dimension A.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/143,168Filed 7 Jan 2021
Priority: JP JP2020-0014878 Jan 2020
Published: US 2021/0207521 A18 Jul 2021
Granted: 28 Jun 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

F01P 3/20
Liquid cooling: cooling circuits not specific to a single part of engine or machine
F01P 11/00
Component parts, details, or accessories not provided for in, or of interest
B60K 11/04
With liquid cooling: arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds
B60R 19/48
Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects: combined with, or…