Abstract:
A system for controlling a flow rate of air into a vehicle engine compartment, may include a radiator cooling a coolant; a coolant inflow tank provided to one side of the radiator and temporarily storing the coolant that cools an engine; and a coolant exhaust tank provided to another side of the radiator and temporarily storing the coolant circulating past a cooling fin of the radiator from the coolant inflow tank.
Abstract:
A system for controlling an air flow rate into a vehicle engine room may include a fan shroud in which a cooling fan including a fan motor and a fan blade is mounted, a radial portion which is provided in the fan shroud while corresponding to an operation area of the fan blade, including a shutter hub positioned to a center thereof and a plurality of radial units disposed to the shutter hub and including a plurality of radial shutters selectively unfolded from the shutter hub to external circumference directions or selectively folded to the shutter hub direction, and a radial unit operating portion unfolding the plurality of radial units from the shutter hub to the external circumference directions or folding the plurality of radial units to the shutter hub direction.
Abstract:
An air flow control system of a vehicle may include an engine mixing air and fuel and generating a rotation force by combusting the mixture of the air and the fuel in a combustion chamber, main ducts provided in a front side of the vehicle to transmit air to the combustion chamber of the engine, heat dissipation members provided adjacent to the main ducts to cool a fluid flowing inside thereof through heat exchange with external air, assistant ducts branched from the main ducts to transmit air flowing in the main ducts to the heat dissipation members, and control valves provided in the assistant ducts to control air supplied to the heat dissipation members.
Abstract:
A cooling and thermoelectric power generating system for a vehicle may include a low temperature radiator disposed at an ambient air intake which is configured to allow ambient air in front of the vehicle to be introduced to an engine room, a coolant line adapted that coolant passing through the low temperature radiator is circulated again through the low temperature radiator via a water-cooled condenser, a refrigerant line adapted that refrigerant is flowed through the condenser, and a thermoelectric generator adapted that coolant flowing through the coolant line and refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant line are passed therethrough, in which the thermoelectric generator performs thermoelectric generation by using temperature difference between coolant flowing through the coolant line and refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant line.
Abstract:
A vehicle engine cooling system may include a high temperature radiator in which a high temperature coolant for cooling an engine by using ambient air flows, a low temperature radiator in which a low temperature coolant for cooling a water-cooled condenser by using ambient air flows, an integrated cooler configured to cool a low pressure EGR gas and air which has passed through a turbocharger, a high temperature radiator circulation line provided to allow the high temperature coolant to circulate the high temperature radiator, the engine, and the integrated cooler, a low temperature radiator circulation line provided to allow the low temperature coolant to circulate the low temperature radiator, the condenser, and the integrated cooler, and a plurality of control valves provided on the high temperature radiator circulation line and the low temperature radiator circulation line.
Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling air flow to an engine room of a vehicle may include vertical support units provided as a pair, a plurality of flaps provided to be unfolded or folded in the vertical support units, a delivery unit configured to selectively fold or unfold the flaps, a rotary unit configured to selectively rotate the flaps, and a controller configured to control operations of the delivery unit and the rotary unit according to operational states of a vehicle.
Abstract:
An engine room cooling system may include an encapsulation covering an intake manifold and an exhaust manifold of an engine of a vehicle, a main duct guiding traveling wind flowing into the vehicle to a side of the encapsulation, an encapsulation intake duct branched from the main duct and formed toward the intake manifold within the encapsulation, an encapsulation exhaust duct branched from the main duct and formed toward the exhaust manifold within the encapsulation, and an intake duct valve disposed adjacent to the encapsulation intake duct and controlling air flow from the main duct to the encapsulation intake duct or to the encapsulation exhaust duct.
Abstract:
A system for controlling an air flow in a vehicle may include a front air introduction apparatus mounted in front of an engine, a condenser provided to the front air introduction apparatus, an intercooler provided behind the condenser, a radiator provided between the intercooler and the engine, an active air flap for controlling air flow being introduced to the front air introduction apparatus, a side air introduction apparatus mounted to a side of an engine compartment for forwarding air to the engine, a connection line connected between the side air introduction apparatus and the front air introduction apparatus, a control valve for controlling air flow through the connection line, a plurality of sensors for measuring an operation state of the vehicle, and a control unit for determining an operation state of the vehicle based on a plurality of sensor signals, and controlling operation of the control valve.
Abstract:
A variable intake system for a vehicle to regulate an amount of intake air according to driving conditions of an engine may include an air cleaner connected to an intake duct which draws in intake air and forms a flow path for the intake air inside the air cleaner, a battery assembly installed in the flow path inside the air cleaner, which includes a plurality of cooling paths that allow the intake air to flow through the plurality of cooling paths, and a valve body installed in the air cleaner and selectively varying the flow path of the intake air.
Abstract:
A structure of an engine room includes an FEM (front end module) disposed at a front side, a dash panel disposed at a rear side, and housing panels disposed at both lateral sides between the FEM and the dash panel, respectively. The structure may include a housing member including a transverse portion which is disposed to be substantially parallel to the dash panel, and longitudinal portions which are bent forward from both ends of the horizontal portion, respectively, and disposed side-by-side with the corresponding housing panels. The housing member is formed with an open interior.