US 12,000,327 B2
Grille shutter control device
Kazuhiro Suzuki, Fujisawa (JP)
Assigned to ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/437,913
Filed by ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/011028
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/184701, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 17, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-046467 (JP), filed on Mar. 13, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0145793 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. F01P 7/00 (2006.01); B60K 11/08 (2006.01); F01P 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC F01P 7/10 (2013.01) [B60K 11/085 (2013.01); F01P 2025/13 (2013.01); F01P 2025/32 (2013.01); F01P 2025/60 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A grille-shutter control apparatus that controls opening and closing of a grille shutter of a vehicle in which an internal combustion engine is mounted, the grille-shutter control apparatus comprising a processor configured to:
select a logic from among a plurality of opening-degree determination logics that are stored in a memory, based on a temperature of an atmosphere inside an exhaust pipe of the internal combustion engine or a temperature of a catalyst inside an aftertreatment apparatus of the internal combustion engine, the plurality of opening-degree determination logics being for determining an opening degree of the grille shutter; and
control the opening and closing of the grille shutter by executing the selected logic selected by the processor.