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US 2022/0055451 A1Published application
Cooling system
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKouta MAJIMA, Takashi Yasuda, Takuya Mitsuhashi
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Abstract
A cooling system includes multiple heat exchangers, a shutter, and a controller. The controller determines whether an amount of air flowing to the other heat exchanger needs to be increased and controls an opening degree of the shutter in a closing direction to reduce an amount of air flowing to a specified heat exchanger and increase an amount of air flowing to another heat exchanger upon determining that the amount of air flowing to the other heat exchanger needs to be increased.
Claims10
A cooling system comprising:
- a plurality of heat exchangers configured to exchange heat between a fluid flowing in each of the plurality of heat exchangers and an air flowing outside the plurality of heat exchangers to cool the fluid, the plurality of heat exchangers includes a specified heat exchanger and another heat exchanger that is different from the specified heat exchanger;
- a shutter located to face a core surface of the specified heat exchanger and configured to adjust an amount of air flowing to the specified heat exchanger;
- and
- a controller configured to control the shutter, wherein
- the controller is further configured to:
- determine whether an amount of air flowing to the other heat exchanger needs to be increased;
- and
- control an opening degree of the shutter in a closing direction to reduce the amount of air flowing to the specified heat exchanger and increase the amount of air flowing to the other heat exchanger upon determining that the amount of air flowing to the other heat exchanger needs to be increased.
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A cooling system comprising:
- a first heat exchanger configured to cool a first fluid through heat exchange between the first fluid and an air;
- a second heat exchanger configured to cool a second fluid through heat exchange between the second fluid and the air;
- a shutter located to face a core surface of the first heat exchanger and configured to adjust an amount of air flowing to the first heat exchanger;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to an in-vehicle sensor and coupled to a memory storing program instruction that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to at least:
- determine whether an amount of air flowing to the second heat exchanger needs to be increased based on a vehicle state detected by the in-vehicle sensor;
- and
- control an opening degree of the shutter to reduce the amount of air flowing to the first heat exchanger and to increase the amount of air flowing to the second heat exchanger upon determining that the amount of air flowing to the second heat exchanger needs to be increased.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.