Back to results
US 8,739,745 B2Granted
Cooling system and method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsHans Guenter Quix, Jan Mehring, Bernd Brinkmann
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A cooling system for an engine. The cooling system includes a flow control element including an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of a cylinder head water jacket, a first outlet port in fluidic communication with a heat exchanger, and a second outlet port in fluidic communication with an inlet of an engine block water jacket.
Claims16
A split coolant circuit in an internal combustion engine comprising:
- a pump;
- a cylinder head water jacket including an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of the pump;
- an engine block water jacket including an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of the cylinder head water jacket;
- a first heat exchanger;
- a second heat exchanger including an outlet in fluidic communication with an inlet of the pump and an inlet in fluidic communication with the outlet of the cylinder head water jacket;
- and
- a flow control element and thermostat coupled to the outlet of the cylinder head water jacket, the flow control element including a first outlet port in fluidic communication with an inlet of the engine block water jacket, a second outlet port in fluidic communication an inlet of the first heat exchanger, a third outlet port in fluidic communication with an inlet of the second heat exchanger, and a fourth outlet port from the thermostat in fluidic communication with the first heat exchanger.
4 more elements
A cooling system in an engine comprising:
- a combined flow control element and thermostat including an inlet in fluidic communication with an outlet of a cylinder head water jacket, a first outlet port in fluidic communication with a first heat exchanger, a second outlet port in fluidic communication with an inlet of an engine block water jacket, a third outlet port in fluidic communication with a second heat exchanger, and a fourth outlet port from the thermostat in fluidic communication with the first heat exchanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.