Cooling device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorTomoaki Yageta
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Abstract
A cooling device includes a refrigerant flow path provided in a propulsion system of a ship; an electric pump configured to cause a refrigerant or a cleaning medium to flow through the refrigerant flow path; and a control unit configured to control operations of the propulsion system and the electric pump. The control unit executes each of a plurality of operating modes including a first operating mode (normal operating mode) which drives the propulsion system and the electric pump and causes the refrigerant to flow through the refrigerant flow path, and a second operating mode (maintenance mode) which drives the electric pump without driving the propulsion system and causes the cleaning medium to flow through the refrigerant flow path.
Claims4
A cooling device comprising:
- a refrigerant flow path provided in a propulsion system of a ship and cooling the propulsion system;
- a refrigerant supply path configured to take seawater or fresh water around the ship as a refrigerant;
- a cleaning flow path configured to take water for cleaning the refrigerant flow path as a cleaning medium;
- a valve configured to switch between the refrigerant supply path and the cleaning flow path;
- an electric pump configured to cause the refrigerant and the cleaning medium to flow through the refrigerant flow path;
- a control unit configured to control operations of the propulsion system and the electric pump;
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- a power storage device configured to supply an electric power to the electric pump,
- wherein the control unit executes each of a plurality of operating modes by controlling the valve, the plurality of operating modes including a first operating mode which causes the refrigerant to flow through the refrigerant flow path by driving the electric pump and the propulsion system, and a second operating mode which causes the cleaning medium to flow through the refrigerant flow path by driving the electric pump and stopping the propulsion system,
- the cooling device further comprising:
- a display device controlled by the control unit,
- wherein when the second operating mode is executed, the control unit displays information indicating that the second operating mode is being executed and countdown information about a residual operating time of the second operating mode depending on a residual capacity of the power storage device, on the display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.