COOLING APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE

• US 20130111926A1
• Filed: 06/07/2012
• Published: 05/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Seunggi
• Granted Patent: US 8,967,307 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 62/5
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 11/10 Guiding or ducting cooling-air, to, or from, liquid-to-air heat exchangers
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 5/02 Pumping cooling-air; Arrangements of cooling-air pumps, e.g. fans or blowers
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 9/00 Cooling having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01P1/00 - F01P7/00 profiting from waste heat of combustion-engine cooling F02G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0431 Details or means to guide the ambient air to the heat exchanger, e.g. having a fan, flaps, a bypass or a special location in the engine compartment
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0456 Air cooled heat exchangers
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/0673 Battery powered
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 25/08 the working fluid being air, e.g. for ventilation
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 27/00 Control, e.g. regulation, of pumps, pumping installations or pumping systems specially adapted for elastic fluids
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A cooling apparatus for a vehicle, may include an electric air compression pump generating compressed air using battery power of the vehicle, a main compressed air tank storing the compressed air generated by the electric air compression pump, a compressed air control valve fluid-connected to the main compressed air tank and controlling the compressed air to be discharged to a radiator when a temperature of cooling water flowing through the radiator exceeds a predetermined value, and an air amplification induction device disposed in front of the radiator and fluid-connected to the compressed air control valve, wherein the air amplification induction device induces compressed air discharged from the compressed air control valve, along an inner circumference of the air amplification induction device, such that the compressed air discharged from the compressed air control valve may be injected to the radiator.

Claims

1. A cooling apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

an electric air compression pump generating compressed air using battery power of the vehicle;

a main compressed air tank storing the compressed air generated by the electric air compression pump;

a compressed air control valve fluid-connected to the main compressed air tank and controlling the compressed air to be discharged to a radiator when a temperature of cooling water flowing through the radiator exceeds a predetermined value; and

an air amplification induction device disposed in front of the radiator and fluid-connected to the compressed air control valve, wherein the air amplification induction device induces compressed air discharged from the compressed air control valve, along an inner circumference of the air amplification induction device, such that the compressed air discharged from the compressed air control valve is injected to the radiator.

2. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 1, further including:

an engine air compression pump driving an air compressor using the power of the engine and generating compressed air; and

an auxiliary compressed air tank storing the compressed air generated by the engine air compression pump.

3. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 2, further including:

an auxiliary air valve mounted between the main compressed air tank and the auxiliary compressed air tank to control fluid-communication therebetween.

4. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 2, further including:

an air supply line fluid-connecting the auxiliary compressed air tank, the auxiliary air valve, the main compressed air tank, the compressed air control valve, and the air amplification induction device in series, for supplying the compressed air of the auxiliary compressed air tank toward a side surface of the radiator.

5. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 4,

wherein the air amplification induction device is formed as a cylindrical shape to encompass the radiator, and includes:

an air inlet formed at a side of an outer circumference of the air amplification induction device, compressed air of the compressed air control valve being flowed therethrough;

a small-diameter portion formed on an inner circumference of the air amplification induction device; and

a large-diameter portion disposed adjacent to the small-diameter portion, wherein an inner diameter of the large-diameter portion increases towards from the radiator, and wherein an outlet is formed between the small-diameter portion and the large-diameter portion and fluid-connected to the air inlet.

6. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 5, further including:

a vortex tube having a space formed to be recessed along the inner circumference of the air amplification induction device between the inlet.

7. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 6, wherein a cross-sectional surface of the vortex tube has a rectangular structure to generate air vortexes.

8. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein a ventilation fan is disposed in the air amplification induction device.

9. The cooling apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein a compressed air control device is electrically connected to the compressed air control valve and receives a signal from a temperature sensor to control an opening degree of the compressed air control valve, the temperature sensor detecting the temperature of the cooling water flowing through the radiator.