# US 12,594,826 B2 · Cooling module and vehicle provided with air guide > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,594,826 B2 - Document ID: US12594826B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/148,114 - Filed: 2022-12-29 - Published: 2024-01-04 - Granted: 2026-04-07 - Earliest claimed: 2022-06-29 - Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation - Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation - Inventors: Hyung Suk Byun - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12594826B2 ## CPC - B60K 11/04: Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds - B60K 11/08: Air inlets for cooling; Shutters or blinds therefor - B60L 1/02: to electric heating circuits - B60L 50/72: Constructional details of fuel cells specially adapted for electric vehicles - B60L 58/33: by cooling - H01M 8/04014: Heat exchange using gaseous fluids; Heat exchange by combustion of reactants - B60L 50/70: using power supplied by fuel cells (in combination with batteries B60L50/75) - H01M 2008/1095: {Fuel cells with polymeric electrolytes} - H01M 2250/20: Fuel cells in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane - B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - H01M: PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY ## Abstract An embodiment vehicle includes a vehicle body and an air guide disposed in a space between a radiator grille and a cooling module in a front end portion of the vehicle body, the air guide being configured to guide air introduced through the radiator grille to flow to a radiator of the cooling module, wherein the air guide includes a first guide member fixed to a grille side structure of a front surface portion of the vehicle in which the radiator grille is positioned in the front end portion of the vehicle body and a second guide member installed in a cooling module side structure and spaced apart from the first guide member at an interval. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle comprising: a vehicle body; and an air guide disposed in a space between a radiator grille and a cooling module in a front end portion of the vehicle body, the air guide being configured to guide air introduced through the radiator grille to flow to a radiator of the cooling module, wherein the air guide comprises: a first guide member fixed to a grille side structure of a front surface portion of the vehicle in which the radiator grille is positioned in the front end portion of the vehicle body; and a second guide member installed in a cooling module side structure and spaced apart from the first guide member at an interval, wherein the cooling module side structure comprises a mounting member that fixes and mounts the radiator to a fixed vehicle body portion of the front end portion of the vehicle body while being coupled to the radiator. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle of claim 1, wherein the grille side structure comprises a front panel that is a front surface portion in a cab on which a driver rides, wherein the cab is a movable vehicle body part, and is configured to be tiltable in the vehicle body. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The vehicle of claim 2, wherein: the second guide member is installed to be disposed along an outer circumferential portion of the radiator while being coupled to the mounting member; and the first guide member is installed to an inner side surface of the front panel. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The vehicle of claim 3, wherein the first guide member and the second guide member are disposed to partially overlap each other in a front-rear direction of the vehicle or an up-down direction of the vehicle and are spaced apart from each other so as not to collide with each other even when the cab moves. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The vehicle of claim 1, wherein one of the first guide member and the second guide member is provided with a spacer configured to maintain the interval while preventing contact between the first and second guide members while being positioned between the first and second guide members. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The vehicle of claim 1, further comprising a cooling fan configured to suck air in the cooling module, the cooling fan comprising a motor direct-connected electric cooling fan in which a blade is directly connected to a rotor shaft of a fan motor. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The vehicle of claim 1, further comprising an undercover mounted on a lower end portion of the front end portion of the vehicle body at a rear of the cooling module, the undercover comprising a plurality of air passage holes provided therein so that air passing through the cooling module passes through the air passage holes. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The vehicle of claim 7, wherein the plurality of air passage holes are each spaced apart from each other at an interval in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, and each air passage hole has a slit shape extending long along a left-right direction of the vehicle. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The vehicle of claim 8, wherein, in the undercover, vanes for guiding the air passing through the cooling module downward and backward are provided at positions of each air passage hole in a shape protruding downward, and the air passage holes are provided on rear surfaces of each vane. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The vehicle of claim 1, wherein an air flap device configured to selectively block a flow of air introduced through an opening under the radiator grille is installed in the front end portion of the vehicle body. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The vehicle of claim 1, wherein a surge tank in which a coolant is stored is disposed above the radiator. ### Claim 12 A vehicle comprising: a vehicle body; an air guide disposed in a space between a radiator grille and a cooling module in a front end portion of the vehicle body, the air guide being configured to guide air introduced through the radiator grille to flow to a radiator of the cooling module, wherein the air guide comprises: a first guide member fixed to a grille side structure of a front surface portion of the vehicle in which the radiator grille is positioned in the front end portion of the vehicle body; a second guide member installed in a cooling module side structure and spaced apart from the first guide member at an interval; and a cross member disposed to extend along a left-right direction of the vehicle from a rear of a blade of a cooling fan configured to suck air in the cooling module, the cross member being installed to be supported, via a fixed bracket, between two vehicle body frames on left and right sides disposed to extend long along a front-rear direction of the vehicle on left and right sides of the vehicle body, respectively. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the cross member is disposed to cross a rear space of the blade in the left-right direction of the vehicle at a position higher than a lower end of the blade of the cooling fan. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The vehicle of claim 12, wherein the cooling fan comprises a motor direct-connected electric cooling fan in which the blade is directly connected to a rotor shaft of a fan motor, and wherein the fan motor and an inverter of the cooling fan are installed to be supported by the cross member via a fan mounting bracket. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The vehicle of claim 14, wherein the fan mounting bracket is installed to be supported on an upper surface of the cross member with an insulator interposed therebetween. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The vehicle of claim 14, wherein the radiator is mounted on the two vehicle body frames on the left and right sides via a mounting member, and wherein the fan mounting bracket comprises: a bracket body to which the fan motor and the inverter of the cooling fan are fixed and mounted; and a supporter installed to support the bracket body in the mounting member and the cross member. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The vehicle of claim 16, wherein the supporter comprises: a frame coupled to the bracket body and installed to be supported with an insulator interposed on an upper surface of the cross member; and a rod type bracket in which a plurality of rods connecting between the mounting member and the frame are installed in a combined configuration to support the frame on the mounting member. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The vehicle of claim 16, wherein side guide members disposed on the left and right sides of the cooling fan are installed in the mounting member or the fan mounting bracket so that air passing through the cooling fan by the side guide members is guided to a rear of the cooling fan without flowing back to a front of the radiator. ### Claim 19 A fuel cell electric vehicle equipped with a fuel cell stack, the vehicle comprising: a vehicle body; a radiator grille in a front end portion of the vehicle body; a cooling module in the front end portion of the vehicle body, the cooling module comprising a radiator, wherein the radiator comprises: a power electric (PE) component radiator configured to radiate heat of a coolant for a PE component that cools a driving motor for driving the vehicle, the PE component comprising an inverter for the driving motor; and a stack radiator configured to radiate heat of a coolant for a stack configured to cool the fuel cell stack; and an air guide disposed in a space between the radiator grille and the cooling module in the front end portion of the vehicle body, the air guide being configured to guide air introduced through the radiator grille to flow to the radiator of the cooling module, wherein the air guide comprises: a first guide member fixed to a grille side structure of a front surface portion of the vehicle in which the radiator grille is positioned in the front end portion of the vehicle body; and a second guide member installed in a cooling module side structure and spaced apart from the first guide member at an interval. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The vehicle of claim 19, further comprising a surge tank in which a coolant is stored disposed above the radiator. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The vehicle of claim 20, wherein the surge tank comprises an integrated surge tank in which an inner space of a container is partitioned by a partition wall into a space in which the coolant for the PE component and the coolant for the stack are each stored.