Thermostat
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsJae Man CHO, Kwang Sik YANG
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Abstract
A thermostat is fitted with a heat sensing portion caused to expand and move by heat transmitted from a coolant, and controlling a flow rate of the coolant flowing into a radiator or an engine by operation of the heat sensing portion. The thermostat includes a flow-changing wall mounted at a lower portion of the thermostat such that the flow-changing wall changes a flow direction of the coolant, towards a vicinity of the heat sensing portion. The flow-changing wall comprises a coupling poriton fixedly coupled to a lower portion of the heat sensing portion, and a skirt extending towards a lower portion of the coupling portion such that the skirt changes the flow direction of the coolant, towards the coupling portion.
Claims5
A thermostat fitted with a heat sensing portion caused to expand and move by heat transmitted from a coolant, and controlling a flow rate of the coolant flowing into a radiator or an engine by operation of the heat sensing portion,
- wherein the thermostat further includes
- a flow-changing wall mounted at a lower portion of the thermostat such that the flow-changing wall changes a flow direction of the coolant, towards a vicinity of the heat sensing portion, and
- wherein the flow-changing wall comprises
- a coupling portion fixedly coupled to a lower portion of the heat sensing portion, and
- a skirt extending towards a lower portion of the coupling portion such that the skirt changes the flow direction of the coolant, towards the coupling portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.