F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 01 – P
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
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P
F01P 7/14 (2006.01) B60K 11/02 (2006.01) F01P 7/16 (2006.01) F01P 3/02 (2006.01) B60K 6/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2360702
This invention relates to a hybrid electric vehicle component coolant control system and method. The coolant system has an electric pump to move coolant through a closed system including engine and motor components. Such components to be cooled can include any electric motors, power electronics, engine, and transmission. The preferred embodiment controls coolant flow to the vehicle engine and motor in a single closed loop. Vehicle components have temperature sensors that send temperature signals to an electric coolant pump duty cycle control strategy. The control strategy makes a determination of a duty cycle of the electric coolant pump as a function of the temperatures of vehicle components and orders the duty cycle of the electric pump. In the preferred configuration, engine temperature sensors can acquire either engine coolant temperature or engine cylinder head temperature. The preferred configuration includes a heater core in the coolant flow path connected between vehicle components and the electric coolant pump return, whereby passenger heating requests are facilitated. Several coolant flow paths among the vehicle components are possible including a parallel and series configuration. The control system can also use a rolling average filter routine connected between the temperature sensor for the motor and the control strategy to determine the average temperature of the motor.
Boggs David Lee
Kotre Stephen John
Peters Mark William
Ford Motor Company
Sim & Mcburney
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