Safety device for vehicle
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsBumsuk KIM, Kyunghwan KIM, Namsik YIM, Joohyung KIM, Junggu LEE, Junyoung LIM
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Abstract
A safety device for a vehicle can include an impulse sensor configured to sense an impact to the vehicle and generate an impulse signal based on the impact, a compressor configured to compress refrigerant for a refrigeration cycle of the vehicle, and a safety valve connected to the compressor and configured to receive the impulse signal from the impulse sensor, and in response to the impulse signal exceeding a predetermined value, open the safety valve to place an inner space of the compressor in communication with an outside of the compressor for discharging the refrigerant outside the vehicle.
Claims20
A safety device for a vehicle, the safety device comprising:
- an impulse sensor configured to sense an impact to the vehicle and generate an impulse signal based on the impact;
- a compressor configured to compress refrigerant for a refrigeration cycle of the vehicle;
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- a safety valve connected to the compressor and configured to:
- receive the impulse signal from the impulse sensor, and
- in response to the impulse signal exceeding a predetermined value, open the safety valve to place an inner space of the compressor in communication with an outside of the compressor for discharging the refrigerant outside the vehicle.
A safety device for a vehicle, the safety device comprising:
- a refrigeration cycle unit configured to control a refrigeration cycle for heating or cooling a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
- an electronic control unit provided configured to control functions of the vehicle;
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- a refrigerant discharge unit electrically connected to the electronic control unit to selectively discharge refrigerant of the refrigeration cycle to an outside of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.