Abstract: A thermal regulation device for a member to be heated or to be cooled includes a fluid-circulation conduit having at least one flexible part able to deform according to the pressure of the fluid within the conduit, and at least one contact zone coming into contact with said member when the pressure of the fluid in the conduit is higher than a given pressure and which is moved away from said member when the pressure of the fluid in the conduit is below the given pressure, the thermal regulation device including regulation means able to vary the pressure of the fluid in the conduit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal-management system for a vehicle comprising: at least one calories storage and/or frigories storage (S1, S2), at least one element of the vehicle to be heated or cooled, at least one source of calories or frigories, detection means adapted to detect whether calories or frigories are available at one of the said sources, control means able to distribute the calories or frigories available at the sources to the elements to be heated or cooled, according to transient and nominal needs. characterized in that it comprises prediction means capable of making at least one prediction aimed at determining: whether calories or frigories will be available at a later date from any of the said sources and/or, whether a need for calories or frigories will exist at a later date at one of the said elements to be heated or cooled.

Abstract: A three-dimensional vacuum thermal insulation element having a compressed three-dimensional porous structure and a shell closed in an airtight manner. The shell includes a thermoformable barrier wall and encloses the porous structure arranged between two major surfaces of said barrier wall. The porous structure has a pressure of between less than 105 Pa and more than 10-2 Pa at ambient external temperature and pressure. The barrier wall is thermoformed at the site of said two major surfaces, between which the porous structure has a curved shape and/or reliefs and/or depressions.

Abstract: An assembly comprising a housing (6) having walls (11) and containing groups of electrical cells (7). Each wall contains at least one space in which, at a given time, a flow of thermal fluid (F2) can be present. The said space, and thus the corresponding wall (11), has a flow of fluid inlet and outlet. In a flow of fluid-tight manner, the flow of fluid inlet and outlet communicate with, respectively, a supply (25a) of thermal flow of fluid and a discharge (25b) of said flow of fluid, so that the flow of fluid can circulate in said space. Through the surrounding wall and said sealed communications, said space is physically isolated from the cells, so that the flow of fluid (F2) therein and the interior space (9) of the housing do not communicate. The wall (11) extends parallel to at least one of the lateral faces of at least one said cell (7).

Abstract: The invention concerns an installation for the thermal conditioning of a passenger compartment and/or at least one component of a motor vehicle, comprising a first circuit (1) for circulating a heat transfer fluid, a second circuit (2) for circulating a refrigerant fluid, capable of forming a heat pump type circuit, the heat transfer fluid circuit comprising heating and/or cooling means (M1, M2, M3) for at least one component of a motor vehicle, means (S1, S2) for storing calories and/or frigories, a first exchanger (E1) forming an evaporator and capable of exchanging heat with the refrigerant circuit, and means for circulating the heat transfer fluid capable of drawing the frigories and/or calories from the storage means (S1, S2) or the first exchanger (E1), so as to transfer them to the heating and/or cooling means (M1, M2, M3).

Abstract: A modular block for storing thermal energy having a bottom wall and lateral walls defining a chamber. The lateral walls are made from a mouldable material. First thermal management elements are disposed in the chamber, which has at least one communication passage to the outside environment to allow a refrigerating fluid or a heat-transfer fluid a in heat exchange relationship with the first thermal management elements to pass into and out of the chamber. The modular block has second thermal management elements arranged laterally around the lateral walls or included in the mouldable material of the lateral walls for the thermal management of the chamber. The first thermal management elements are separated from the second thermal management elements by a part of the mouldable material of the lateral walls.

Abstract: The invention relates to a porous thermoelectric material (5; 5a, 5b): having, at 20° C. and at atmospheric pressure, a thermal conductivity of less than 100 mW/(m·K) and an electrical conductivity of between 20 S/m and 105 S/m, and comprising a matrix of a thermal insulating material which has a porosity of more than 70%, and which may be filled at least locally with an electrically conductive material (5b), the content of the electrically conductive material being comprised between 0% and 90% by weight of the total weight of the thermal insulating material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material including a support consisting of a porous composite material including at least one polymer phase forming a binder based on at least one polymer selected from thermoplastic polymers, elastomers, and elastomer thermoplastics, and at least one filler selected from thermally conductive fillers, the pores of the support consisting of the porous composite material being partially or entirely filled with at least one phase-change material. The invention also relates to a method for producing said material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a first free space (7) for a first fluid (3), a thermally conductive wall (11) which, at least locally, delimits said first free space (7), in such a way that an exchange of heat can occur between the first fluid and the thermally conductive wall (11) which is hollow and encloses a material (13) for storing thermal energy by accumulation of latent heat, by heat exchange with at least the first fluid. The first free space (7) is divided into at least two separated channels (7a, 7b) in which two streams of the first fluid (3) can circulate at the same time but separately, the thermally conductive wall (11) which encloses the thermal energy storage material (13) being interposed between the two channels (7a, 7b).

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly comprising a plurality of cells (10) of an electric vehicle battery (1) between which a first passage (17) may receive fluid via a first supply (27). On another side (11b) of the cells, a second passage (19) may receive fluid via a second supply (29). Around the cells, a peripheral passage (21) may also receive fluid via another supply (25). The second passage (19) and/or the peripheral passage (21) is interposed between a thermal insulator (33) and two successive cells. Flow control means (47) provide a thermal exchange fluid flow through at least one of the first, second and additional fluid supplies during a first time period and through at least two of the first, second and additional fluid supplies during a second time period.

Abstract: A cooling circuit comprising a liquid circulation path and arranged on the path: in series, an engine and a radiator, mounted on a first branch in parallel between the inlet and outlet of the radiator, a store-exchanger containing at least one volume: enclosing elements for storing and releasing thermal energy, involving a phase change material PCM, placed in a heat exchange relationship with said liquid, and around which are arranged at least one first layer containing a PCM and one second layer containing a porous thermally insulating material, and valves so positioned as to direct the circulation of the liquid arriving from the engine toward the radiator and/or the store-exchanger.

Abstract: An assembly having a structure provided with an interior volume in which is present for example at least one fluid capable of circulating in said volume and under the action of circulation means. Thermally insulating elements of VIP construction are arranged around a layer containing a PCM and extending around the peripheral wall that surrounds the volume. Protrusions fixed to the peripheral wall delimit spaces in which the thermally insulating elements are positioned. A sleeve extends around the protrusions and the insulating elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal-management system for a vehicle comprising: at least one calories storage and/or frigories storage (S1, S2), at least one element of the vehicle to be heated or cooled, at least one source of calories or frigories, detection means adapted to detect whether calories or frigories are available at one of the said sources, control means able to distribute the calories or frigories available at the sources to the elements to be heated or cooled, according to transient and nominal needs. characterized in that it comprises prediction means capable of making at least one prediction aimed at determining: whether calories or frigories will be available at a later date from any of the said sources and/or, whether a need for calories or frigories will exist at a later date at one of the said elements to be heated or cooled.

Abstract: An assembly comprising a structure provided with an interior volume in which is present for example at least one fluid capable of circulating in said volume and under the action of circulation means. Thermally insulating elements of VIP construction are arranged around a layer containing a PCM and extending around the peripheral wall that surrounds the volume. Protrusions fixed to the peripheral wall delimited spaces in which the thermally insulating elements are positioned. A sleeve extends around the protrusions and the insulating elements.

Abstract: The invention concerns an insulating part comprising a sealed casing defining an inner enclosure (7), the part having thermal conductivity of less than 100 mW/m.K, the sealed casing (3) comprising at least one thin metal sheet (30, 31) having a thickness of less than 1 mm and welded peripherally to keep the enclosure under low pressure and/or controlled atmosphere, the weld, which is produced in a chamber under low pressure and/or controlled atmosphere, having a leakage rate of less than 10?6 Pa·m3/s, after a first thermal treatment according to the standard RTCA-DO 160-G, section 5, Cat A (from ?55° C. to 400° C.) and a second thermal treatment at ?196° C. for 1 hour.

Abstract: A thermal barrier to maintain the temperature of a battery. The barrier includes elements with respectively cold and hot PCM materials, and elements, thermal isolators, arranged at least in case of some between two of the PCM material elements.

Abstract: A three-dimensional vacuum thermal insulation element having a compressed three-dimensional porous structure and a shell closed in an airtight manner. The shell includes a thermoformable barrier wall and encloses the porous structure arranged between two major surfaces of said barrier wall. The porous structure has a pressure of between less than 105 Pa and more than 10-2 Pa at ambient external temperature and pressure. The barrier wall is thermoformed at the site of said two major surfaces, between which the porous structure has a curved shape and/or reliefs and/or depressions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a structure comprising at least one thermal management element comprising: a composite body (3) containing at least one phase change material (PCM) in a structuring rigid matrix, such that the composite body is self-supporting regardless of the phase of the phase change material contained, the composite body (3) being shaped to locally externally present at least one elongated depression (11) which by itself defines a channel wall (13) suitable for the circulation of a fluid.

Abstract: A three-dimensional, vacuum thermal insulating element comprising a compressed three-dimensional porous structure, an envelope closed in an airtight manner comprising a thermoformable barrier wall, enclosing the porous structure, which is interposed between two major surfaces of the barrier wall, and where, at outside ambient temperature and pressure, a pressure between less than 105 Pa and more than 10?2 Pa prevails. The barrier wall is thermoformed at said the two major surfaces, between which the porous structure is bent-shaped and/or has reliefs and/or depressions.

Abstract: A vehicle having a passenger cabin to be maintained within a temperature range, the vehicle comprising a vehicle body and an assembly defining the passenger cabin, the assembly including: a structural lining panel having a surface and being non-planar, fixation means for attaching the structural lining panel to the vehicle body, and a modular assembly including a plurality of side-by-side modules, each module extending in a non-planar surface and including: an under vacuum envelope and, a layer of a thermally insulating material, the side-by-side modules being arranged side by side in a direction parallel to the surface of the structural lining panel. The side-by-side modules are joined to said structural lining panel while being joined to said vehicle body only by said fixation means.