US 2021/0278113 A1 · AIR CONDITIONER FOR VEHICLE

Abstract

The present invention relates to an air conditioner for a vehicle which includes an integrated heat pump system having an electronic part waste heat recovery device to enhance heating performance and which can cool a battery of an electric vehicle using refrigerant in a cooling mode. The air conditioner for a vehicle includes a refrigerant circulation system for performing cooling or heating of the interior of the vehicle by circulating refrigerant. The air conditioner further includes a first refrigerant pipe exchanging heat with a battery system of the vehicle in sequence to selectively exchange heat between refrigerant of the refrigerant circulation system and a coolant of the first coolant pipe.

Claims13

Dependent claims

An air conditioner for a vehicle which includes a refrigerant circulation system having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion means, and an evaporator, the air conditioner for a vehicle comprising:

a first coolant pipe which exchanges heat with a battery system of the vehicle or a drive train component,
wherein refrigerant of the refrigerant circulation system and coolant of the first coolant pipe are heat-exchanged selectively.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/497,110Filed 29 Mar 2018

Priority

KR 10-2017-004607310 Apr 2017

Published

9 Sep 2021

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B60H 1/00899
The components being temperature regulating devices: controlling the flow of liquid in a heat pump system
F25B 41/26
Disposition of valves, e.g. of on-off valves or flow control valves: of fluid flow reversing valves
B60H 1/00057
For sending an air stream of uniform temperature into the passenger compartment: the air being heated and cooled simultaneously, e.g. using…
F25B 13/00
Compression machines, plants or systems, with reversible cycle

Air conditioner for vehicle

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Air conditioner for vehicle

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Abstract

Claims13