Cooling device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuki Jojima
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Abstract
A cooling device for a charger capable of simplifying the device configuration and reducing the power consumption is provided. Cooling device for cooling the charger for charging a battery with use of power supply received from a power source includes a compressor for circulating a cooling agent, a condenser for condensing the cooling agent, a decompressor for decompressing the cooling agent condensed by condenser, an evaporator for evaporating the cooling agent decompressed by the decompressor, and a cooling portion for cooling the charger with use of the cooling agent flowing from the condenser, and the cooling portion is provided on a path of the cooling agent flowing from the condenser to the evaporator.
Claims9
A cooling device for cooling a charger for charging a battery with use of power supply received from a power source, comprising:
- a compressor for circulating a cooling agent;
- a condenser for condensing said cooling agent;
- a decompressor for decompressing said cooling agent condensed by said condenser;
- an evaporator for evaporating said cooling agent decompressed by said decompressor;
- a cooling portion for cooling said charger with use of said cooling agent flowing from said condenser, said cooling portion being provided on a path of the said cooling agent flowing from said condenser to said decompressor;
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- a communication passage for allowing communication between a path of said cooling agent flowing from said cooling portion to said decompressor and a path of said cooling agent flowing from said compressor to said condenser
- said cooling portion being arranged below said condenser.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.