US 11,884,131 B2
Thermal-management system for a vehicle
Fabrice Chopard, Saint Martin D'Heres (FR); Hélder Filipe De Campos Garcia, Chalette sur Loing (FR); and Ibrahim Abdallah, Montargis (FR)
Assigned to HUTCHINSON, Paris (FR)
Appl. No. 17/290,613
Filed by HUTCHINSON, Paris (FR)
PCT Filed Oct. 25, 2019, PCT No. PCT/FR2019/052555
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 30, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/089551, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1860089 (FR), filed on Oct. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0394580 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. B60L 53/10 (2019.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); B60L 58/16 (2019.01); B60L 1/02 (2006.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2023.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/0073 (2019.05) [B60H 1/00492 (2013.01); B60H 1/00735 (2013.01); B60H 1/00878 (2013.01); B60L 1/02 (2013.01); B60L 53/10 (2019.02); B60L 58/12 (2019.02); B60L 58/16 (2019.02); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01); G07C 5/08 (2013.01); G08G 1/143 (2013.01); G05B 2219/50333 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A thermal-management system for a vehicle comprising:
at least one calories and/or frigories storage (S1, S2) forming a source of calories or frigories,
at least one element of the vehicle to be heated or cooled,
at least one additional source of calories or frigories,
detection means adapted to detect whether calories or frigories are available at one of the said sources,
control means able to distribute the calories or frigories available at the sources to the elements to be heated or cooled, according to transient or nominal needs,
characterized in that it comprises prediction means capable of making at least one prediction aimed at determining:
whether calories or frigories will be available at a later date from any of the said sources and/or,
whether a need for calories or frigories will exist at a later date at one of the said elements to be heated or cooled,
and in that it comprises management means capable of:
defining a thermal need for one or more of the elements of the vehicle to be heated or cooled and/or an electrical need for one or more of the elements of the vehicle to be supplied electrically, on the basis of input data relating to the state of the elements of the vehicle to be heated or cooled, and relating to the state of the sources of calories or frigories, of a request from a user and/or of a prediction,
defining an operating mode of the system on the basis of the said thermal need, the said electrical need and/or a prediction,
operating the system's actuators, so as to operate the system according to the chosen operating mode.