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.

Abstract: An assembly comprising at least one first pocket (3) which contains a thermally insulating material (5) and in which a first controlled atmosphere prevails, and at least one second pocket (7) which surrounds the first pocket and in which a second controlled atmosphere prevails. The first controlled atmosphere is different from the second one and corresponds to a vacuum of 10 Pa or less. The thermally insulating material (5) preferably has open cells with a diameter greater than or equal to 1 micron.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heat exchange. At a first point in time, in a thermal energy storing device, at least part of the previously accumulated thermal energy is discharged to a first fluid by heat exchange, and subsequently, at a second later point in time, when the first fluid has been heated to a temperature higher than the temperature of a second fluid, the second fluid receives heat energy by heat exchange with said first fluid which then circulates on the other side of a first wall that prevents the first and second fluids from mixing.

Abstract: A device for heat exchange and positioning in a pipe. The device includes a central body containing a material for storing thermal energy by latent heat accumulation, to be placed in thermal exchange with a circulating surrounding fluid. The device also includes structure for positioning the central body in the volume. The positioning structure is connected to, and extends around, the central body The position structure is also connected to reserving passages that enable contact between the central body and the surrounding fluid and the circulation of the surrounding fluid.

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, so that the composite body is self-supporting regardless of the phase of the phase change material contained, and/or a plastic or metal bag, gas-tight and under partial internal vacuum, having a shape maintained by the internal vacuum, the composite body (3) and/or the bag being shaped so as locally to present externally at least one elongated cavity (11) which by itself defines a channel wall (13) suitable for the circulation of a fluid.

Abstract: A thermal barrier for helping to maintain a temperature in volumes and/or at least one internal structural component surrounded by the barrier. The barrier has a first component containing at least one phase change material (PCM) that changes its state at a first temperature, a second component containing a PCM that changes its state at a second temperature which is different from the first temperature, and a third, thermally insulating component that is disposed between the first and second components containing a PCM or outside the second component.

Abstract: A thermal device comprising thermal means for dissipating thermal energy, means for thermally managing the thermal means, comprising an enclosure having a volume in which a heat absorbing substance is disposed for exchanging heat with said thermal means. A channeling is provided with which the volume of the enclosure communicates in order, in an abnormal overheating situation of the thermal means to discharge at least part of said substance to the outside that is further away from the thermal means than said volume is.

Abstract: A three-dimensionally shaped assembly comprising fibres in a three-dimensional structure, and a sleeve comprising a polymeric film and which encloses the fibrous structure, the shape of which is followed by the polymeric film.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermal management aimed at maintaining the temperature inside a space. The proposed assembly includes the space and a device arranged around same, placed in an outdoor environment exposed to a non-constant temperature and including at least one thermally insulating element inserted between the inner space and the outdoor environment and, from the inside towards the outside: an inner heat-storage element made of PCM material and an outer thermal barrier containing several PCMs. The invention also includes a cooling unit for provisionally providing, in the inner space, a charge fluid, at least at a temperature that is different from those of the temperature to be maintained, in heat transfer with the PCM of the inner element, so as to store thermal energy.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermal management of the passenger compartment of a vehicle comprising an air conditioner in the passenger compartment, suitable for heating, cooling and propelling air. At least one of the walls limiting the passenger compartment is provided, from the inside towards the outside, with an internal thermal barrier (containing at least one PCM material having a temperature at change of state between liquid and solid between 15° C. and 40° C. and preferably between 17° C. and 35° C., and at least one thermally insulating element.

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 unit for storing and releasing thermal energy including a plurality of blocks each having a body the lateral walls of which delimit a chamber suited to receiving storage and release elements of PCM type, to be placed in heat exchange relationship with a refrigerating or heat-transfer fluid circulating between the chambers via passages; and elements for the thermal management of the chambers arranged around said chambers and at least some of which include a thermally insulating material and others a PCM.

Abstract: An assembly comprising at least one first pocket (3) which contains a thermally insulating material (5) and in which a first controlled atmosphere prevails, and at least one second pocket (7) which surrounds the first pocket and in which a second controlled atmosphere prevails. The first controlled atmosphere is different from the second one and corresponds to a vacuum of 10 Pa or less. The thermally insulating material (5) preferably has open cells with a diameter greater than or equal to 1 micron.

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: 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 a device for heat exchange and positioning in a volume, the device comprising: a central body containing a material for storing thermal energy by latent heat accumulation, to be placed in thermal exchange with a circulating surrounding fluid, and a structure for positioning the central body in the volume, the positioning structure being connected to the central body around which it extends and reserving passages enabling contact between the central body and the surrounding fluid and the circulation of said fluid.

Abstract: The invention relates to the thermal creation of a part, including steps of: using at least one first and one second metal plate (30, 31), hollow-forming the first plate so as to form at least part of said inner wall, and hollow-forming the second plate (31) so as to form at least part of said outer wall. During the forming, the shapes of the first and second plates are adjusted such that they can be placed in contact with each other while leaving a space therebetween inside said periphery, and then the first and second plates are placed in a low-pressure and/or controlled-atmosphere chamber (65), where said plates are brought together and peripherally sealed together such that, in said space, a low-pressure and/or controlled-atmosphere enclosure is created.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for heat exchange and positioning in a pipe, the device comprising: a central body containing a material for storing thermal energy by latent heat accumulation, to be placed in thermal exchange with a circulating surrounding fluid, and a structure for positioning the central body in the volume, the positioning structure being connected to the central body around which it extends and reserving passages enabling contact between the central body and the surrounding fluid and the circulation of said fluid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heat exchange. At a first point in time, in a thermal energy storing device, at least part of the previously accumulated thermal energy is discharged to a first fluid by heat exchange, and subsequently, at a second later point in time, when the first fluid has been heated to a temperature higher than the temperature of a second fluid, the second fluid receives heat energy by heat exchange with said first fluid which then circulates on the other side of a first wall that prevents the first and second fluids from mixing.

Abstract: This concerns a thermal insulation system interposed between a first volume and a second volume to be thermally managed relative to the first volume, the system comprising a series of parts providing thermal bridges between them and which are: arranged on several layers along a thickness and direction passing through the first and second volumes; and/or, transversely to these directions and thicknesses, offset two by two transversely from one said layer to the adjacent layer; and/or engaged at least two by two, transversely to the direction and thickness to force a heat flow generally provided in the direction, along the thermal bridges, to change direction towards an isotherm.