公开(公告)号：US06176205B1

公开(公告)日：2001-01-23

申请号：US09283455

申请日：1999-04-01

申请人： Gary M. Smith

发明人： Gary M. Smith

IPC分类号： F01P1120

CPC分类号： F01P11/029

摘要： The present invention provides an airtight reservoir in fluid communication with a cooling system of an internal combustion engine. This cooling system allows coolant to flow into the overflow bottle, thereby compressing air therein, and causing increases pressure. When the coolant again cools, the pressurized coolant flows back into the cooling system, thereby maintaining the system pressure above ambient.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供一种与内燃机的冷却系统流体连通的气密容器。 这种冷却系统允许冷却剂流入溢流瓶，从而压缩空气，从而增加压力。 当冷却剂再次冷却时，加压的冷却剂回流到冷却系统中，从而将系统压力保持在环境温度以上。

公开(公告)号：US06230669B1

公开(公告)日：2001-05-15

申请号：US09311768

申请日：1999-05-13

申请人： John W. Evans

发明人： John W. Evans

IPC分类号： F01P1120

CPC分类号： F01P9/00 ,  F01P3/22 ,  F01P7/08 ,  F01P11/0276 ,  F01P11/029 ,  F01P2003/003 ,  F01P2050/24

摘要： In a heat transfer system (10), an upper coolant chamber (31) and a lower coolant chamber (24) of a typical engine, such as an internal combustion engine, fuel cell, boiler, or other engine for converting fuel to thermal energy, are formed adjacent to the heat-rejecting components of the engine and are hermetically sealed to prevent exposure of heat-transfer liquid within the chambers to the engine's ambient atmosphere. The heat-transfer liquid is preferably a substantially anhydrous, boilable liquid having a saturation temperature higher than that of water, and the heat-transfer liquid is pumped at a predetermined flow rate, and distributed through the heat-transfer fluid chamber so that the liquid within the chambers substantially condenses the heat-transfer liquid vaporized by the heat-rejecting components of the engine. Thermally-expanded heat-transfer liquid, non-condensable gas, and trace amounts of vapor, if any, are received within a hermetically-sealed accumulator (78) coupled in fluid communication with a relatively low-pressure area of the heat-transfer fluid chambers (24, 31), and the accumulator (78) defines at least one chamber (86, 88, 90), which may form a liquid-free space (88), for receiving the non-condensable gas and trace vapors. The at least one accumulator chamber defines a predetermined volume (V), which may be a variable volume, selected to maintain the pressure within the accumulator within a predetermined pressure limit (e.g., about 5 psig) during engine operation.

摘要翻译： 在传热系统（10）中，典型发动机的上部冷却剂室（31）和下部冷却剂室（24），例如内燃机，燃料电池，锅炉或用于将燃料转换成热能的其他发动机 形成在与发动机的排热部件相邻的地方，并被气密地密封，以防止腔室内的传热液体暴露于发动机的环境气氛。 传热液体优选是饱和温度高于水的基本上无水的可沸腾液体，并且以预定的流量泵送传热液体，并且通过传热流体室分配，使得液体 在室内大致冷凝由发动机的排热部件蒸发的传热液体。 热膨胀的传热液体，不可冷凝的气体和痕量的蒸汽（如果有的话）被接收在密封的储存器（78）内，该储存器与传热流体的相对低压区域流体连通 室（24,31）和蓄能器（78）限定至少一个室（86,88,90），其可以形成用于接收不可冷凝气体和痕量蒸汽的无液空间（88）。 所述至少一个蓄能器室限定预定体积（V），其可以是可变容积，其被选择以在发动机运行期间将蓄能器内的压力维持在预定压力极限（例如，约5psig）内。

公开(公告)号：US06199528B1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-13

申请号：US09361985

申请日：1999-07-28

申请人： Takayuki Hotta ,  Yasuo Ozawa

发明人： Takayuki Hotta ,  Yasuo Ozawa

IPC分类号： F01P1120

CPC分类号： F01P5/10 ,  F01P5/12 ,  F01P7/164 ,  F01P2005/105 ,  F01P2005/125 ,  F01P2037/02 ,  F01P2060/18

摘要： A cooling device for an internal combustion engine includes a brushless DC motor having a housing, an output shaft, a magnet rotor fixedly mounted on the output shaft, and a stator positioned in the housing and having three phase windings which are arranged in the circumferential direction around the magnet rotor, an impeller connected at an outside of the housing to one end of the output shaft of the motor and circulating a cooling liquid through the engine, and a radiator while the output shaft is being rotated. A device can be provided for generating heat at the phase windings for warming-up the cooling liquid if a temperature thereof is below a set value. A device can be provided for stopping the rotation of the output shaft of the motor without interrupting the energization of the motor when a temperature of the cooling liquid is below a set value.

摘要翻译： 一种用于内燃机的冷却装置，具有：一个无刷直流电动机，其具有外壳，输出轴，固定地安装在输出轴上的磁体转子以及定位在壳体中的定子，具有沿周向布置的三相绕组 围绕磁体转子，在壳体的外部连接到电动机的输出轴的一端并将冷却液循环通过发动机的叶轮和输出轴正在旋转时的散热器。 可以提供一种用于在相绕组处产生热量的装置，用于在其冷却液温度低于设定值的情况下预热冷却液。 当冷却液的温度低于设定值时，可以设置用于停止马达的输出轴的旋转而不中断马达的通电的装置。

公开(公告)号：US06178929B2

公开(公告)日：2001-01-30

申请号：US09295671

申请日：1999-04-21

申请人： Oskar Schatz

发明人： Oskar Schatz

IPC分类号： F01P1120

CPC分类号： B60H1/00492 ,  F01P11/20 ,  F01P2005/105 ,  F01P2007/146 ,  F01P2011/205 ,  F01P2023/08 ,  F01P2025/08 ,  F01P2060/08

摘要： A method of operating cooling fluid circuit of an internal combustion engine for an automotive vehicle at cold start of said engine. Said cooling fluid circuit includes pump means, a heat storage and a cabin heating system heat exchanger interconnected between said heat storage and said engine. The method comprises unloading said heat storage to transfer heat thereof to cooling fluid circulating in said cooling fluid circuit and operating said heat exchanger so as to transfer at least some of the heat of the circulating cooling fluid to heating air of said cabin heating system. Said heat storage is being unloaded in a first unloading phase during which the cooling fluid circulates in said cooling fluid circuit at a flow rate substantially corresponding to the saturation point of said heat exchanger, and thereafter in a second unloading phase during which the cooling fluid circulates in said cooling fluid circuit at a rate reduced such that the temperature of the heating air entering the vehicle cabin remains at a uniform level during said second unloading phase until said engine has reached a temperature sufficient to maintain said uniform level.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在所述发动机的冷启动时对机动车辆的内燃机的冷却液回路进行操作的方法。 所述冷却流体回路包括在所述储热器和所述发动机之间互连的泵装置，储热器和客舱加热系统热交换器。 所述方法包括卸载所述储热器以将热量传递到在所述冷却流体回路中循环的冷却流体，并操作所述热交换器，以将所述循环冷却流体的至少一部分热传递到所述客舱加热系统的加热空气。 所述储热器在第一卸载阶段被卸载，在该第一卸载阶段期间，冷却流体以基本上对应于所述热交换器的饱和点的流量在所述冷却流体回路中循环，然后在冷却流体循环的第二卸载阶段 在所述冷却流体回路中以降低的速率使得进入车厢的加热空气的温度在所述第二卸载阶段期间保持在均匀的水平，直到所述发动机达到足以维持所述均匀水平的温度。