Abstract:
A vehicle including an engine at a rear, and a clutch system including a hydraulic conduit passing below the vehicle and connecting a master cylinder placed at the front of the vehicle and a slave cylinder located at the rear thereof. The hydraulic conduit is positioned in a vicinity of a pre-existing heat source in the vehicle, to be heated by the heat source.
Abstract:
A device for hydraulic control of a clutch for a motor vehicle, including a master cylinder controlled by a clutch pedal, a mechanism supplying the master cylinder with hydraulic fluid, a receiving cylinder for actuation of the clutch, the master cylinder linked to the receiver cylinder by a hydraulic pipe, the cylinder for actuation of the clutch being positioned in a rear of the vehicle and the pedal and the master cylinder being placed at a front of the vehicle, the hydraulic pipe linking the front and rear of the vehicle including a plurality of pipe offset devices along its length to encourage return of air bubbles to the mechanism supplying the master cylinder with hydraulic fluid.
Abstract:
A device that controls a temperature of a battery onboard a motor vehicle includes an air-conditioning circuit of the motor vehicle in which circulates, as a first heat-transfer fluid, an air-conditioning fluid. The air-conditioning circuit includes at least one evaporator for direct transfer of heat emitted by the battery to the air-conditioning fluid and a compressor to increase a pressure and a temperature of the air-conditioning fluid. The device also includes a cooling circuit in which circulates, as a second heat-transfer fluid, a cooling fluid. The cooling circuit includes at least one first heat source to heat the cooling fluid and at least one main radiator to cool the cooling fluid that can be short-circuited. The cooling circuit also includes a battery radiator to directly transfer heat conveyed by the hot cooling fluid to the battery when the main radiator of the cooling circuit is short-circuited.
Abstract:
An air guide is assembled on a structural component of a motor vehicle by at least two fasteners that each include a first component and a second component. The fasteners project laterally from a frame defined by lateral edges of the structural component in a direction substantially perpendicular to the fastening direction. The first component is joined to the air guide by a retainer that breaks following an impact directed substantially parallel to the fastening direction. Lateral edges of the air guide exhibit guide parts situated substantially opposite second components. Each guide part guides a lateral edge of the structural component supporting a second component inside the air guide following a breakage of the retainer of the first component working together with the second component, the breakage resulting in movement of the air guide towards the structural component in a direction substantially parallel to the fastening direction.
Abstract:
A vehicle including an engine at a rear, and a clutch system including a hydraulic conduit passing below the vehicle and connecting a master cylinder placed at the front of the vehicle and a slave cylinder located at the rear thereof. The hydraulic conduit is positioned in a vicinity of a pre-existing heat source in the vehicle, to be heated by the heat source.