METHOD FOR COOLING COMPONENTS OF A MOTOR VEHICLE
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A method for cooling components of a motor vehicle, the instantaneous cooling capacity being ascertained from an overall cooling requirement, and the overall cooling requirement being composed of the individual cooling requirements of the components. The motor vehicle is driven using an hybrid drive, which has at least one internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine, the electric machine being controlled by a power electronics system; and an electric machine cooling requirement and a power electronics cooling requirement are taken into account, as individual cooling requirements, in the ascertainment of the overall cooling requirement.
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11. A method for cooling components of a motor vehicle driven using a hybrid drive which has at least one internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine, the electric machine being controlled by a power electronics system, the method comprising:
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ascertaining an instantaneous cooling requirement from an overall cooling requirement, the overall cooling requirement being composed of individual cooling requirements of individual components; and taking into account at least one of an electric machine cooling requirement and a power electronics cooling requirement as individual cooling requirements, in the ascertainment of the overall cooling requirement. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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