Systems and methods for operating a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, the hybrid vehicle may include a plurality of devices for heating a passenger cabin of the hybrid vehicle. A vehicle drive mode may be engaged at an onset of a trip to a pred...

An air conditioner for a vehicle includes: a compressor (11) that compresses refrigerant for conditioning air in a vehicle cabin and defines a refrigeration cycle; a detecting section (22) that detects a thermal load of air-conditioning in the vehicle cabi...

A device and a method of 6-step controlling of an inverter of a motor driving system are provided. The device and method and apply a voltage to a motor by adopting a 6-step control scheme capable of maximally using an input voltage of the inverter to impro...

To improve the accuracy of prediction of the power consumption of the air conditioner units, a power consumption prediction device that predicts an amount of electric power consumed by a vehicle having one or more air conditioner units operable with electr...

When there is a request for heating prior to completion of warm-up of an engine (6), an air-conditioner electronic control unit (10) uses a PTC heater (5) as a heat source for heating and cancels a warm-up request for the engine (6) if the state of charge ...

An air conditioning apparatus cools air sent to a passenger compartment (1) by using a cooling machine (2) which is a vapor compression heat pump. Heating of the air may be implemented by utilizing the heat of an internal combustion engine (7) or via a Pel...

An air conditioner for vehicle is provided for the purpose of space saving, comprising a refrigerant cycle 13 having: an evaporator 2 which is disposed in a blowing duct 1 and cools blowing air with refrigerant evaporation; a compressor 3 of setting the ev...

The system includes at least one transmission belt (7, 7a, 7b) for coupling the shafts (5a, 6a) of auxiliary devices (5, 6) to a pulley (8) which can be coupled for operation to the shaft (2) of the combustion engine (3), and an electromagnetically operate...

A method of thermal management for a thermal management system in a vehicle includes the steps of selecting a thermal management function. The method also includes the steps of adjusting a temperature within the thermal management system using the thermal ...

A hybrid powertrain (10) has a suitable heat engine (12) having rotational output, a multi-speed transmission (14) and a motor/generator (MG) (16). The transmission input or cluster shaft (20) is continuously connected with the MG. One set of ratio gears (...