Kinetic power converter for occupant heating of vehicle
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorGeorge Samuel Watson, II
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Abstract
A passenger cabin heating system of a vehicle includes: a passenger cabin heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from a fluid within the passenger cabin heat exchanger to air passing the passenger cabin heat exchanger; a blower configured to blow air past the passenger cabin heat exchanger and into a passenger cabin of the vehicle; a housing; the fluid within the housing; and a propeller disposed within the housing and surrounded by the fluid and configured to rotate with a wheel of the vehicle, thereby warming the fluid within the housing.
Claims20
A passenger cabin heating system of a vehicle, comprising:
- a passenger cabin heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from a fluid within the passenger cabin heat exchanger to air passing the passenger cabin heat exchanger;
- a blower configured to blow air past the passenger cabin heat exchanger and into a passenger cabin of the vehicle;
- a housing;
- the fluid within the housing;
- and
- a propeller disposed within the housing and surrounded by the fluid and configured to rotate with a wheel of the vehicle, thereby warming the fluid within the housing.
A passenger cabin heating method for a vehicle, comprising:
- by a blower, blowing air past a passenger cabin heat exchanger and into a passenger cabin of the vehicle, the passenger cabin heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from a fluid within the passenger cabin heat exchanger to air passing the passenger cabin heat exchanger;
- and
- by a propeller disposed within a housing and surrounded by fluid, rotating within the housing thereby warming the fluid within the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.