Abstract: A heat pump system for a vehicle cools or heats the vehicle interior by using a natural refrigerant, and efficiently adjusts the temperature of a battery module by using a single chiller that exchanges heat between refrigerant and coolant.

Abstract: A cooling arrangement for conditioning air within a cabin of an underground work machine includes blowers to generate an air flow, a first evaporator, and a second evaporator. The first evaporator provides passage to a first portion of the air flow and receive a first coolant to facilitate a first heat transfer from the first portion of the air flow to the first coolant. The second evaporator provides passage to a second portion of the air flow and receive a second coolant to facilitate a second heat transfer from the second portion of the air flow to the second coolant. A receipt of the first coolant into the first evaporator for the first transfer and a receipt of the second coolant into the second evaporator for the second transfer occurs either independently or simultaneously with each other for supplying conditioned air flow into the cabin to cool the cabin.

Abstract: An arrangement for a temperature control circuit including a housing in which at least one channel is formed for transporting temperature control media, wherein the wall of the housing is formed from sheet metal.

Abstract: A temperature-control container for a motor vehicle having a first heat exchanger for temperature control of the cooling container, a temperature-control container coolant circuit which is connected to the first heat exchanger and which has a coolant com-pressor and an expansion valve assigned to the first heat exchanger, and having a heat exchanger arrangement which has at least one heat exchanger which is connected to a coolant circuit of the motor vehicle. The coolant circuit is connected to at least one electrical drive or storage component for its cooling, and the coolant circuit has a chiller, which is connected to a vehicle coolant circuit, and/or has a low-temperature cooler cooled via ambient air. Furthermore, a cooling container coolant circuit and a motor vehicle having a cooling container are described.

Abstract: A vehicular air conditioning system having an air inlet and an air outlet includes a first heating heat exchanger configured to heat air introduced through the air inlet, a second heating heat exchanger configured to heat air passing through the first heating heat exchanger or bypassing the first heating heat exchanger, and a control part configured to control the first heating heat exchanger and the second heating heat exchanger according to a passenger room heating load so that when the heating load decreases to below a preset value in a heating mode in which the first heating heat exchanger and the second heating heat exchanger are operated simultaneously, the first heating heat exchanger is first turned off and only the second heating heat exchanger is operated.

Abstract: An air register including a blade member including a plurality of vertical blades and a side wall defining a rear opening, a shutter rotatably coupled to the blade member, the shutter including a shutter gear, and a shaft rotatably coupled to the blade member, the shaft including a shaft gear engaging the shutter gear. Rotation of the shaft in one of a rotation direction and a counter-rotation direction opposite the rotation direction results in rotation of the shutter in the other of the rotation direction and the counter-rotation direction.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a kinematics module (1) for an air diffuser of a vehicle. The kinematics module (1) can be accommodated as a modular component at least partly or in certain regions in an air diffuser housing, preferably to be possible to be replaced, in order to form the air diffuser.

Abstract: A glass-diaphragm-equipped vehicle body structure includes a glass diaphragm including a window glass that closes an opening portion of a vehicle body, a resin layer attached to a peripheral edge of a surface of the window glass on a vehicle interior side, and an exciter attached to the surface of the window glass on the vehicle interior side. Then, a lowest resonance frequency obtained based on a spring constant of the resin layer, a spring constant of the exciter, and a mass of the exciter is 200 [Hz] or less.

Abstract: This invention improves work efficiency of a detachment work of detaching a door hole cover from a door inner panel. The door hole cover is to be attached to a door inner panel of a vehicle's door, the door hole cover including: recessed portions each allowing a clip to be housed therein, the clip being used to attach the door hole cover to the door inner panel; a pair of guide walls connected to an end portion of each recessed portion which end portion has an opening, the guide walls facing each other, the guide walls guiding the clip to an inside of the recessed portion; and a protruded portion protruding from one of the guide walls, at least part of a first one of the guide walls protruding, more than a second one of the guide walls, in a direction for narrowing a space between the guide walls.

Abstract: An embodiment relates to a tailgate hinge mounting structure that includes a roof rail disposed in a width direction of a vehicle body, a rear end module connected with the roof rail, a tailgate hinge connected with the roof rail and the rear end module, and a bracket bolt connecting the roof rail. The rear end module and the tailgate hinge in a vertical direction of the vehicle body. A bracket reinforcement is provided between the roof rail and the tailgate hinge. The bracket reinforcement is insert-injected together with the rear end module.

Abstract: A sunroof assembly includes a bracket configured for attachment to a sunroof panel. The sunroof assembly also includes a guiderail supporting movement of the bracket, whereby movement of the bracket causes movement of the sunroof panel. The sunroof assembly further includes a housing defining a housing wall, wherein the housing wall and the guiderail form a boundary wall separating a wet area of the sunroof assembly from a dry area of the sunroof assembly, and wherein the bracket straddles the boundary wall such that a first side of the bracket is located in the wet area and a second side of the bracket is located in the dry area.

Abstract: A roof system for a vehicle has a fixed roof with a roof opening that may be closed by roof panel. The roof system including a pair of parallel guide rails and an operating mechanisms for each of the guide rails. Each operating mechanism includes a front mechanism, a tilting mechanism, and a locking mechanism for locking the tilting mechanism. Wherein the locking mechanism is slidably guided in the guide rail and is rearward of and remote from the tilting mechanism seen in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. An effect thereof is that the package of the front mechanism may be reduced and along therewith the space required therefor inside the guide rail, allowing for a smaller cross-section of the guide rail.

Abstract: A roof system for a vehicle has a fixed roof with a roof opening that may be closed by roof panel. The roof system including a pair of parallel guide rails and at least one transverse guide rail extending at an angle to the pair of parallel guide rails. Further including operating mechanisms for each of the guide rails, each operating mechanism including a front mechanism, a tilting mechanism, and a locking mechanism for locking the tilting mechanism. And wherein the parallel guide rails each slidably supporting the front mechanism and the tilting mechanism, and the at least one transverse guide rail slidably supporting the locking mechanism of each respective operating mechanism.

Abstract: In the information processing device, weather information predicts rain or snow around the parking location of the target vehicle, the control unit determines whether there is a roof at the parking location. Further, when it is determined that there is no roof at the parking location, the control unit sends inquiry information for inquiring whether to close the open and close roof to the user of the target vehicle. When the control unit receives an instruction to perform close control of the open and close roof, the control unit closes the open and close roof of the target vehicle by remote control. On the other hand, when it is determined that there is a roof at the parking location, the control unit does not send the inquiry information.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle roof module for a sensor, configured to be mounted on a roof of a vehicle. The roof module including a roof skin having an opening and defining an exterior side and an interior side of the roof module. Further including a sensor mounting location, arranged at the interior side, having a visor providing a field of view through the opening; a cover panel movable along a sliding path; and a kinematic mechanism for moving the cover panel along the sliding path between: a closed position wherein the cover panel covers the opening and blocks the field of view of the visor and a retracted position wherein the cover panel uncovers the opening and clears the field of view of the visor.

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a retractable tonneau cover for a vehicle that has been modified in order to generally minimize the size of a housing of the tonneau cover, providing more vehicle cargo space for a user. The modified retractable tonneau cover can be automatically closed through an electronic system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a folding roof and a vehicle. A middle roof portion is connected between a front roof portion and a rear roof portion, and the front roof portion and the rear roof portion are foldable relative to each other through the middle roof portion; the front roof portion is a hard shell portion, the rear roof portion is a hard shell portion, the middle roof portion includes a canopy cloth, the canopy cloth is made of a soft material, and the canopy cloth is a soft roof portion. The soft roof and the hard roof can be quickly convertible, the hard roof is used as a connection portion with the vehicle body, and the lock catch is used for fit to facilitate disassembly, and the hard roof is combined with the soft roof, so that the overall space of the folded roof is small.

Abstract: A bed cap configured for attachment to a tailgate of a vehicle, the bed cap includes a channel configured to collect fluid and/or debris, the channel comprising a first opening for evacuating the fluid and/or debris from within the channel.

Abstract: The application provides a glass run seal, the glass run seal includes a sealing body and a first sealing component, the first sealing component is located at an end of the sealing body, and provided with a first sealing groove. The first sealing groove is provided with at least two inner sealing walls, the two inner sealing walls are arranged opposite to each other, and a distance between the two inner sealing walls decreases in a direction from an opening of the first sealing groove to interior of the first sealing groove. An outer trim panel, a sealing system assembly of a window glass, a door of a vehicle, and a vehicle are also provided.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame including a pair of spaced apart longitudinal members extending along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. Multiple cross-members extend transverse to the vehicle-longitudinal axis and are fastened at each end to a corresponding one of the pair of longitudinal members. A battery tray is positioned above the multiple cross-members and positioned between the longitudinal members.

Abstract: A mechanical protection device for components of an electrical energy storage system of a vehicle, comprising: a protective barrier for a battery of the energy storage system, for arrangement on the side of the battery situated towards the outside of the vehicle; and an installation frame for a charging connection unit, arranged separately from the battery, of the energy storage system, for arrangement in front of and at a distance in the vehicle longitudinal direction from an end of the protective barrier, wherein the installation frame has a contact face for arrangement in front of the end of the protective barrier, wherein the contact face comprises an outer-side, angled stop for engaging around the outside of the end of the protective barrier at a distance, wherein the contact face together with the outer-side stop comprises a region of the contact face-with an L-shaped cross section; and vehicle frame support having the energy storage system mounted on it and the protection device; and vehicle having suc

Abstract: A fan control system includes a fan, a dust barrier near the fan, a fan actuator to rotate the fan in a normal direction and a reverse direction, a fan controller configured or programmed to control a manner in which the fan actuator is driven, a clogging degree calculator configured or programmed to calculate a clogging degree of the dust barrier based on drive behavior of the fan, and a reverse rotation instructor configured or programmed to instruct the fan controller based on the clogging degree to rotate the fan in the reverse direction.

Abstract: Provided is a lock releasing method including: moving an arm part of a replacement apparatus in a horizontal direction such that a leading-end part of the arm part is located in a position downward from a mounting position of a battery, where the mounting position is a position in which the battery is mounted in a vehicle; moving the leading-end part upward such that the battery is placed on the leading-end part; and releasing a lock of the battery in the vehicle after the battery is placed on the leading-end part.

Abstract: A utility vehicle configured for traveling off-road includes: a chassis; and a drive wheel assembly coupled with the chassis and including: a drive wheel assembly rotatable portion configured for rotating and thereby for enabling the utility vehicle to traverse a ground; a hub carrier coupled with the drive wheel assembly rotatable portion, which is configured for rotating relative to the hub carrier; and an electric motor configured for causing the drive wheel assembly rotatable portion to rotate, the electric motor including a stator which is fixedly coupled with the hub carrier.

Abstract: A wheel assembly for a vehicle has a rotor housing adapted to be supported on wheel bearings of the vehicle, a stator support structure adapted to be affixed to a non-rotatable portion of the vehicle, and an energy storage module affixed to the stator support structure. The rotor housing has a support structure connected to a rotor. The rotor has permanent magnets therein. The stator support structure has windings therein. These windings are spaced from the permanent magnets of the rotor housing by an air gap. The energy storage module is cooperative with the windings of the stator support structure so as to receive energy from the windings and transmit energy to the windings relative to a motion of the vehicle.

Abstract: A wheel assembly for a vehicle has a rotor housing adapted to be affixed to a non-rotatable portion of the vehicle, a stator housing adapted to be affixed to a wheel hub of the vehicle so as to be rotatable relative to the rotor housing, and an energy storage module affixed only to the stator housing. The stator housing has a support structure having a wheel rim. The rotor housing has permanent magnets therein. The stator housing has windings therein. The windings of the stator housing and the permanent magnets of the rotor housing define an air gap therebetween. The air gap extends concentric to an axis of rotation of the wheel hub. The wheel assembly is cooperative with the windings of the stator housing so as to receive energy from the windings and transmit energy to the windings relative to a motion of the vehicle.

Abstract: A go-kart includes a frame assembly and a wheel assembly. The wheel assembly is mounted on the frame assembly. The wheel assembly includes a walking wheel and a hub motor connected with the walking wheel, the hub motor is provided with a motor shaft, and the frame assembly is correspondingly provided with a frame sleeve. A first end of the motor shaft is connected with the hub motor, and a second end of the motor shaft passes through the frame sleeve and is fixedly connected with the frame sleeve.

Abstract: An isolator for mounting a heat exchanger is disclosed. The isolator includes a body made of an elastic material, and a core made of non-elastic material. The core is encompassed by the body and includes a through-hole extending along a central axis. The body has a mounting slot extending perpendicular to the central axis.

Abstract: A work vehicle includes a pipe-shaped frame provided in a body along a right-left direction and having a vent hole on at least either of a right portion and a left portion of the pipe-shaped frame. The work vehicle has a communicating opening provided in an intermediate portion of the pipe-shaped frame in the right-left direction and allowing a cooling fan and a cooling object to communicate with an inside of the pipe-shaped frame. The cooling fan is configured to cause air to be supplied to the cooling object or discharged from the cooling object through the vent hole, the pipe-shaped frame, and the communicating opening.

Abstract: In a left-right wheel drive device (10) that accommodates, in a casing (4), two electric motors (1, 2) spaced apart from each other and a planetary gear mechanism (3) arranged so as to be offset on a first side in an axial direction, a pair of motor shafts (11), a pair of counter shafts (12), and two output shafts (13, 14) are arranged in parallel. The first output shaft (13) is arranged on the first side from the planetary gear mechanism (3) and is fixed with a carrier (3C) at an end portion of a second side thereof. The second output shaft (14) is longer than the first output shaft (13) and is fixed with the second sun gear (3S2) at an end portion on the first side thereof. The second output shaft (14) is rotatably supported by roller bearings (35, 36) at the end portion on the second side and a position on the second side from a driven gear meshing with the second counter gear.

Abstract: An electric delivery truck control system is disclosed. Sensors detect hub motor parameters associated with the hub motors. An electric delivery truck control unit detects electric delivery truck control inputs associated with an operation of the electric delivery truck. The electric delivery truck control inputs are generated from an operation of the electric delivery truck. An operation parameter controller automatically adjusts a torque level applied by each hub motor of the electric delivery truck to be within a hub motor operation threshold based on the hub motor parameters thereby enabling each hub motor to operate at an operation torque level as requested from the operation of the electric delivery truck. The operation parameter controller maintains the torque level applied by each hub motor within a current limit allowed by a battery management unit of the electric delivery truck and a torque limit allowed by each hub motor.

Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle. The control device includes circuitry configured to: detect a speed limit of a road on which the vehicle travels based on peripheral information on the vehicle obtained by an external sensor that the vehicle has; present a user of the vehicle, as a suggested speed, either a first speed based on the detected speed limit or a second speed set by the user; and perform travel control of controlling a travel speed of the vehicle in response to the user's approval of the suggested speed, in which the suggested speed is set as a target speed.

Abstract: A system for controlling a vehicle includes a steering actuator, a brake actuator a throttle actuator, an interface device and a control system. The interface device has a drive controller coupled to the brake actuator and the throttle actuator, and a steering controller coupled to the steering actuator. The control system is responsive to actuation of the interface device to change one or both of the speed and direction of the vehicle as compared to the instructions executed by the vehicle controller, and the control system is responsive to actuation of the interface device to adjust the instructions as a function of the actuation of the interface device in at least some operating conditions.

Abstract: The control unit of the information processing device detects that a specific switch among the plurality of existing switches for operating each of the plurality of devices existing in the vehicle is operated by a predetermined method in which the function of the corresponding device is not exerted. The control unit of the information processing device transmits a command for causing the user terminal used by the user associated with the vehicle to perform a predetermined operation in response to the detection of the operation of the specific switch by the predetermined method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates a display device and a vehicle equipped with the display device. The display device may include a display driver moving a display, a display winder winding and unwinding the display according to the movement of the display, and a display support unit supporting the display. The display support unit may include a housing supporting the display, a door provided in the housing and movable to enable the display to move into and out of the housing, and a door driver moving the door.

Abstract: A vehicle display device including an image display unit and a control unit is provided. An image includes a both-eye region that is a region visually recognized by both eyes of the driver and a one-eye region that is a region visually recognized by only one eye of the driver. The control unit sets a non-display region at a boundary portion between the both-eye region and the one-eye region and perform control such that at least no static image is displayed in the non-display region.

Abstract: A vehicle display device including an image display unit and a control unit is provided. An image includes a both-eye region that is a region visually recognized by both eyes of the driver and a one-eye region that is a region visually recognized by only one eye of the driver. When displaying a design in the one-eye region, the control unit temporarily displays the design in a cut-in display area provided in the both-eye region and then moves a display position of the design to the one-eye region.

Abstract: A display device including: a road width recognition unit configured to recognize a width of a road on which a vehicle is traveling based on a detection result of a vehicle-mounted external sensor used for at least one of autonomous driving control and driving assistance control of the vehicle including a camera, the camera being configured to capture a surrounding situation image showing a situation around the vehicle; and a display control unit configured to cause a vehicle-mounted display unit to display the surrounding situation image. The display control unit is configured to cause the display unit to display the surrounding situation image when a vehicle speed of the vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined vehicle speed threshold and a predetermined narrow path condition is satisfied, based on at least the width of the road and the vehicle speed.

Abstract: A method for an end-user to perform in-situ calibration of the imagery of a head-up display in a vehicle. A first step comprises obtaining information on the real-world scene within a field of view of the head-up display from a vehicle sensor system of the vehicle. A second step comprises using the information obtained from the vehicle sensor system to identify at least one feature in the field of view satisfying a suitability criterion for the head-up display calibration mode. A third step comprises projecting an image using the head-up display. The image comprises an image element corresponding to each feature. A fourth step comprises receiving at least one first user-input and changing the image in response to each first user-input.

Abstract: A system performs a method of converting regenerative braking energy in an eco-friendly vehicle. When an amount of remaining battery power reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold during regenerative braking, a controller of the system in which a battery pack and a passenger air-conditioning apparatus are connected by a coolant circulation line connected to a battery chiller to which an outer refrigerant line is connected, controls: consumption of the regenerative braking energy by a compressor; switching of the flow of an air-conditioning refrigerant by a 4-way valve toward a condenser or radiator of an outer heat exchanger; evaporation of the air-conditioning refrigerant by expansion operation of an expansion valve in the direction of a battery chiller or an expansion valve in the direction of the outer heat exchanger; and operating of the outer heat exchanger for heat release or absorption to or from the outside.

Abstract: An apparatus for managing a battery includes a voltage sensor that measures a voltage of a battery cell mounted on a vehicle, and a processor that determines a short circuit risk of the battery cell.

Abstract: The invention relates to a protection device for voltage-limiting elements of a low-voltage line that extends out of a vehicle high-voltage region. A vehicle high-voltage device having a high-voltage region (HV), which is arranged in a housing (G), and having at least one low-voltage line (NL) is described. Said low-voltage line leaves the high-voltage region (HV) through an aperture (D). The high-voltage region is provided in the housing (G). The aperture (D) is provided in an outwardly delimiting housing wall (GW) of the housing (G). The at least one low-voltage line (NL) is connected to a ground potential (M) or to a connection therefor via a voltage-limiting element (V) and a current-limiting element (SG) connected in series with said voltage-limiting element.

Abstract: An apparatus for performing regenerative braking by controlling a disconnector of a vehicle includes a computing device to calculate a braking amount necessary for braking, a controller to engage or release the disconnector of the vehicle, based on the calculated braking amount, and a distributing device to distribute a regenerative braking amount necessary for braking into at least one motor included in the vehicle, when the disconnector is engaged or released.

Abstract: A control system for an electrified powertrain of an electrified vehicle includes a controller configured to determine a regenerative torque request and a friction braking torque request to collectively satisfy a braking torque request indicative of a desired braking torque to be applied to a driveline of the electrified vehicle and, when the regenerative torque request is greater than zero, obtain a driveline model configured to model transient dynamics of the driveline including a driveline shaft connected between friction brakes of the electrified vehicle and an electric motor of the electrified powertrain, adjust a motor torque command for the electric motor based on the regenerative torque request, the model, and the speeds and/or positions of the electric motor and the driveline shaft, and control the electric motor based on the motor torque command to perform regenerative braking and thereby improve vehicle regenerative braking performance and/or vehicle drivability.

Abstract: A power supply device for a rail vehicle has a traction battery, a traction intermediate circuit, an on-board network, a bidirectional charging device, which is connected between the traction battery and the on-board network, and a first switching unit between the traction battery and the traction intermediate circuit for switching between a charging operation and a discharging operation of the traction battery. There is also described a power supply provision device, a method for discharging a traction battery of a power supply device, a method for charging a traction accumulator of a power supply device, and a rail vehicle.

Abstract: A system and method in at least one embodiment provides the means for conditioning batteries for increased battery capacity, battery runtime, reduced battery temperature while charging, and/or reduced battery temperature while in use, using current generated from a generator.

Abstract: A system and method in at least one embodiment provides magnetic levitation to a vehicle above and/or partially about a rail or track using a flux field generator having a plurality of members having mated waveform patterns. In a further embodiment, the magnetic levitation also uses a distribution system. In a further embodiment, the plurality of members forms a disk-pack turbine. In a further embodiment, the flux field generator is not vehicle based.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of noise reduction technologies, and specifically a motor noise control method and apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a current driving mode of a vehicle and a total torque required by the vehicle in the current driving mode; acquiring an electric drive noise distribution matrix of the vehicle in the current driving mode, where the electric drive noise distribution matrix includes correspondences among target motor noises, target motor speeds, and target motor torques of respective motors in the current driving mode; and distributing a torque of each motor according to the electric drive noise distribution matrix, where a sum of torques of the respective motors is equal to the total torque required by the vehicle.

Abstract: An electrified vehicle includes: a mode switch that gives an instruction of switching being performed in order of a first mode, a third mode and a second mode, among the first mode, the second mode and the third mode; and a control device that sets a traveling mode to one of the modes in accordance with the mode switch operation and controls a motor and an auxiliary machine in accordance with the traveling mode. When the mode switch has been operated while the traveling mode is the first mode, the control device switches the traveling mode from the first mode to the second mode without the switching to the third mode, if the mode switch has been operated again within a predetermined time, and switches the traveling mode from the first mode to the third mode, if the mode switch has not been operated again within the predetermined time.

Abstract: The motor control unit reduces the drive braking torque for applying the braking force to the drive wheel by the reverse rotation timing predicted by the reverse rotation prediction unit at the latest, and the friction braking unit increases a friction braking force applied to the drive wheel by the friction braking device so that the friction braking force exceeds the braking force provided by the drive braking torque by the reverse rotation timing predicted by the reverse rotation prediction unit at the latest.