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US 2012/0234932 A1Published application
Vehicular heating system
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsAsami Okamoto, Koji Ota
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Abstract
A vehicular heating system comprising a passenger compartment air-conditioner and a radiative heater which heats a foot area of a passenger, said vehicular heating system detecting foot vent heat which said foot vent air flow has and controlling said passenger compartment air-conditioner and said radiative heater in accordance with that heat.
Claims18
A vehicular heating system comprising
- a passenger compartment air-conditioner with an air-conditioning unit controlling passenger compartment air-conditioning by calculating a target blowing-out temperature of said air-conditioning unit in accordance with information on the environment inside and outside of the passenger compartment and vehicle operating information, wherein a foot vent air flow of said air-conditioning unit being adjustable, and
- a radiative heater which heats a foot area of a passenger,
- said vehicular heating system detecting foot vent heat which said foot vent air flow has and controlling said passenger compartment air-conditioner and said radiative heater in accordance with that heat.
A vehicular heating system which adjusts a heating element surface member temperature of a radiative heater which warms a passenger in accordance with temperature information inside the passenger compartment, in which vehicular heating system
- before a predetermined time elapses from when heating by said vehicular heating system is turned ON or at the time of elapse,
- said heating element surface member temperature is controlled based on a setting for which a first upper threshold value where the passenger will not suffer high temperature burn injuries is set and which is set to increase proportionally or in a monotone functional way in accordance with temperature information inside the passenger compartment at below that upper threshold value, and
- after a predetermined time elapses from when heating by said vehicular heating system is turned ON,
- said heating element surface member temperature is controlled to not more than a second upper threshold value where the passenger will not suffer low temperature burn injuries.
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