Vehicle air conditioning device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11780290-B2
Application number	US-202217705563-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2022
Priority date	Jun 23, 2021
Publication date	Oct 10, 2023
Grant date	Oct 10, 2023

Abstract

When a temperature of a coolant is a first predetermined temperature or higher, an air conditioner ECU executes a first control that sets a target evaporation temperature higher by a predetermined temperature and the air conditioner ECU executes a second control that changes the target evaporation temperature in accordance with a cooling load inside the vehicle cabin. When the second control is executed after the first control is executed, the air conditioner ECU sets a first target evaporation temperature set by the first control as the target evaporation temperature, and calculates a second target evaporation temperature that is changed by the second control based on the target evaporation temperature immediately before the first control is executed. When the second target evaporation temperature becomes larger than the first target evaporation temperature, the air conditioner ECU sets the second target evaporation temperature as the target evaporation temperature.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle air conditioning device including a condenser provided on an upstream side of a ventilation path of a radiator that dissipates heat of a coolant of an object to be cooled of a vehicle and an evaporator that cools air supplied inside a vehicle cabin, the vehicle air conditioning device comprising a control unit that sets a target evaporation temperature at which a refrigerant is evaporated in the evaporator,
wherein when a temperature of the coolant is equal to or higher than a first predetermined temperature, the control unit executes a first control that sets the target evaporation temperature higher by a predetermined temperature and the control unit executes a second control that changes the target evaporation temperature in accordance with a cooling load inside the vehicle cabin, and
wherein when the second control is executed after the first control is executed, a first target evaporation temperature set by the first control is set as the target evaporation temperature, and a second target evaporation temperature is calculated in which the second target evaporation temperature is changed by the second control based on the target evaporation temperature immediately before the first control is executed, and when the second target evaporation temperature becomes larger than the first target evaporation temperature, the second target evaporation temperature is set as the target evaporation temperature.

2. The vehicle air conditioning device according to claim 1 , wherein when the second control is executed after the first control is executed, and when the temperature of the coolant becomes equal to or less than a second predetermined temperature, the second target evaporation temperature is set as the target evaporation temperature.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hoshino Yu

Classifications

• B60H1/00878 Primary

  the components being temperature regulating devices · CPC title

• B60H1/3227

  characterised by the arrangement or the type of heat exchanger, e.g. condenser, evaporator (condensed liquid drainage means B60H1/3233) · CPC title

• B60H2001/3263

  of the refrigerant at an evaporating unit · CPC title

• B60H1/0073 Primary

  Control systems or circuits characterised by particular algorithms or computational models, e.g. fuzzy logic or dynamic models · CPC title

• B60H2001/00733

  Computational models modifying user-set values · CPC title