US 11,850,915 B2
Method for the thermal conditioning of an internal combustion engine and/or of a passenger compartment of a vehicle, and vehicle
Peter Satzger, Landsberg am Lech (DE); and Felix Schedel, Gauting (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on May 4, 2018, as Appl. No. 15/971,604.
Application 15/971,604 is a division of application No. 14/642,070, filed on Mar. 9, 2015, abandoned.
Application 14/642,070 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2013/067283, filed on Aug. 20, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2012 215 971.1 (DE), filed on Sep. 10, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2018/0251003 A1, Sep. 6, 2018
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00921 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00314 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00307 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00928 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00949 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for thermal conditioning within a vehicle, comprising:
providing a fluid circuit that heats and cools a combustion engine of the vehicle, wherein the fluid circuit comprises one or more valves configurable to fluidically separate the fluid circuit into a first sub-circuit and a second sub-circuit, and to fluidically combine the first sub-circuit and the second sub-circuit into the fluid circuit;
providing a heat pump circuit that heats air flowing into a passenger compartment of the vehicle;
transferring heat from the heat pump circuit to the fluid circuit, or the second sub-circuit of the fluid circuit, via configuring the one or more valves, such that the transferred heat heats the air flowing into the passenger compartment; and
transferring heat from the first sub-circuit of the fluid circuit to the heat pump circuit and from the heat pump circuit to the second sub-circuit, via configuring the one or more valves, such that the transferred heat heats the air flowing into the passenger compartment.