US 11,850,913 B2
Air conditioning system for vehicle
Gee Young Shin, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Seung Sik Han, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Dong Ho Kwon, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Myung Hoe Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/015,756.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0046855 (KR), filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0323374 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00564 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00021 (2013.01); B60H 1/00328 (2013.01); B60H 1/00664 (2013.01); B60H 1/00807 (2013.01); B60H 1/00842 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00092 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00721 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle air conditioning system, comprising:
a heating duct configured to receive internal air and external air;
a cooling duct configured to receive internal air and external air;
a condenser disposed in the heating duct;
an evaporator disposed in the cooling duct and connected to the condenser via a refrigerant line;
a phase change material (PCM) stored in a housing that is separate from the refrigerant line, wherein the housing is within the heating duct and the cooling duct, and wherein the PCM stores thermal energy of the internal air passing through the heating duct and the cooling duct;
internal/external air doors configured to open and close so as to control the mixing of the internal air and the external air introduced into the heating and cooling ducts; and
first and second phase change material (PCM) doors configured to open and close so as to control the external air introduced through the heating and cooling ducts whether to pass through the PCM;
wherein the first and second PCM doors are disposed between respective internal/external air doors and the PCM.