Vehicular heat management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9994087-B2
Application number	US-201414898718-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2014
Priority date	Jun 18, 2013
Publication date	Jun 12, 2018
Grant date	Jun 12, 2018

Abstract

A vehicular heat management system has a compressor, a heat-medium heating heat exchanger, and a flow adjustment part. The compressor draws and discharges a refrigerant. The heat-medium heating heat exchanger causes a heat exchange between the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and a heat medium other than air and heats the heat medium. The flow adjustment part causes a flow of a cooling fluid cooling the refrigerant when the compressor is stopped. The vehicular heat management system further has a refrigeration cycle unit and a refrigerant-flow-path forming member. The refrigeration cycle unit includes devices configuring a refrigeration cycle. The refrigerant-flow-path forming member (i) is disposed in a low-temperature area having an air temperature that is lower than an air temperature in an area in which the refrigeration cycle unit is disposed, and (ii) passes a refrigerant in the refrigeration cycle flows.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicular heat management system comprising:
a compressor that draws and discharges a refrigerant;
a heat-medium heating heat exchanger that causes a heat exchange between the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and a heat medium other than air, and that heats the heat medium;
a decompression part that decompresses and expands the refrigerant after exchanging heat in the heat-medium heating heat exchanger;
a heat-medium cooling heat exchanger that cools the heat medium by causing a heat exchange between the refrigerant decompressed and expanded in the decompression part and the heat medium;
a heat-medium-air heat exchanger that causes a heat exchange between the heat medium and air;
a pump that circulates the heat medium to the heat-medium cooling heat exchanger and the heat-medium-air heat exchanger;
a pump control section; and
a determination section that determines whether a pressure or a temperature of the refrigerant is determined to be higher than a predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value, wherein
the pump control section is configured to operate the pump in response to the compressor being stopped and the determination section determining that the pressure or the temperature is higher than a predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value.

2. A vehicular heat management system comprising:
a compressor that draws and discharges a refrigerant;
a heat-medium heating heat exchanger that causes a heat exchange between the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and a heat medium other than air, and that heats the heat medium;
a heat-medium-air heat exchanger that causes a heat exchange between the heat medium and air;
a pump that circulates the heat medium to the heat-medium heating heat exchanger and the heat-medium-air heat exchanger;
a pump control section; and
a determination section that determines whether a pressure or a temperature of the refrigerant is determined to be higher than a predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value, wherein
the pump control section is configured to operate the pump in response to the compressor being stopped and the determination section determining that the pressure or the temperature is higher than a predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value.

3. A vehicular heat management system comprising:
a compressor that draws and discharges a refrigerant;
a heat-medium heating heat exchanger that causes a heat exchange between the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and a heat medium other than air, and that heats the heat medium;
a decompression part that decompresses and expands the refrigerant after exchanging heat in the heat-medium heating heat exchanger;
a heat-medium cooling heat exchanger that cools the heat medium by causing a heat exchange between the refrigerant decompressed and expanded in the decompression part and the heat medium;
a heat-medium-air heat exchanger that causes a heat exchange between the heat medium and air;
a pump that circulates the heat medium to the heat-medium-air heat exchanger,
a switching part that switches between a state in which the heat medium circulates between the heat-medium-air heat exchanger and the heat-medium heating heat exchanger and a state in which the heat medium circulates between the heat-medium-air heat exchanger and the heat-medium cooling heat exchanger;
a pump control section; and
a determination section that determines whether a pressure or a temperature of the refrigerant is determined to be higher than a predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value, wherein
the pump control section is configured to operate the pump in response to the compressor being stopped and the determination section determining that the pressure or the temperature is higher than a predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value.

4. The vehicular heat management system according to claim 3 , wherein
the switching part sets the state in which the heat medium circulates between the heat-medium-air heat exchanger and the heat-medium cooling heat exchanger when the compressor is stopped and when the pressure or the temperature of the refrigerant is determined to be higher than the predetermined temperature or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value.

5. The vehicular heat management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the pump control section stops the pump when the pressure or the temperature of the refrigerant becomes lower than or equal to the predetermined value after the pump is operated.

6. The vehicular heat management system according to claim 1 , wherein
the pump control section stops the pump when a predetermined time elapses after the pump starts.

7. The vehicular heat management system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a blower blowing air to the heat-medium-air heat exchanger; and
an air-blow control section that operates the blower, wherein
the air-blow control section operates the blower when the compressor is stopped and when the pressure or the temperature of the refrigerant is determined to be higher than the predetermined value or is estimated to exceed the predetermined value.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Enomoto Norihiko
• Kakehashi Nobuharu
• Katoh Yoshiki
• Kishita Hiroshi
• Makihara Masamichi

Classifications

• B60H1/32284

  comprising two or more secondary circuits, e.g. at evaporator and condenser side · CPC title

• F25B2600/13

  Pump speed control · CPC title

• F25B2700/1933

  Suction pressures · CPC title

• F25B2700/21151

  at the suction side of the compressor · CPC title

• B60H1/22 Primary

  the heat source being other than the propulsion plant {(B60H1/00492 takes precedence)} · CPC title