A method for controlling an air-conditioning unit which air-conditions the interior of a vehicle includes using a control facility to control the air-conditioning unit in order to air-condition the interior of the vehicle. In order to improve the operation of the air-conditioning unit, a computing…
An in-vehicle environment control method includes: acquiring environmental information around a vehicle; inputting the environmental information into a preset first environmental prediction model, to obtain a first environmental parameter; inputting the first environmental parameter and the…
A method is provided for operating an electrical flow heater in a vehicle, in particular an electric vehicle, wherein the flow heater has multiple electrical heating circuits for electrically generating a respective heating power in a heating section through which a medium to be heated flows, and a…
A predictive air conditioning control system for a bus includes a passenger heat calculation part calculating heat acquired from passengers at each bus stop on a bus route, an outside air heat calculation part calculating heat acquired from an inflow of outside air at each bus stop, a heat…
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to idea incubation during a commute. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to identifying one or more conditions where an occupant of a vehicle is capable of commuting and participating in idea incubation, communicating…
A method for individualized setting of an air conditioner in a vehicle for a user using a control architecture is provided. Data relating to setting the air conditioner is acquired for all users and all vehicles and an average basis model is trained in an AI unit using the data acquired for all…
An air conditioner for a vehicle (10) includes: a compressor (21) that compresses a heat exchange medium; an internal heat exchanger (14) that performs heat exchange between the heat exchange medium expelled from the compressor (21) and air for air conditioning introduced inside a vehicle…
The air conditioner has an air duct distribution system having air outlets and a temperature device. A control device adjusting the interior temperature, has a mathematical model based controller for distributing the air mass flow from the individual air outlet according to a desired value. The…
A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting the flow rate of engine coolant through a heater core in an automobile by automatically determining a temperature difference between the temperature of coolant at a first flow rate before it enters a heater core and a temperature of air exiting the…
The invention relates to a method for estimating a heater-core air discharge temperature of an HVAC system. According to the invention, the method uses a model of the heat exchanger. This heat exchanger efficiency model maps a heat exchanger efficiency to a set of actual operating parameters by…
The invention relates to a method for controlling the air discharge temperature of an HVAC system which comprises means for controlling air flows. According to the invention, the method is characterised by the following steps: calculating air flows and pressures inside the HVAC system based on…
A motor vehicle automatic climate control determines the heating or cooling influence of the deep mass components of the cabin (10) and compensates the climate control to offset the thermal effects of the deep mass components on the cabin air temperature. The deep mass temperature is either…
An improved motor vehicle automatic climate control methodology develops HVAC commands for transient phase operation independent of the HVAC commands calibrated for steady-state phase operation. At system activation, a transient phase indicator is initialized based on the cabin temperature and the…
The method of regulating motor vehicle air conditioning involves cooling air in a heat exchanger and passing it through a nozzle into the passenger compartment. A comfort value is determined from the skin temperature of a passenger to control the temperature. The skin temperatures of all passengers…
A cooling device (22) with controllable cooling power is used in air-conditioning equipment (10) for a vehicle (12). Cooling power is adjusted so that heat energy needed to heat up pre-cooled air is as low as possible. This minimum heat energy is determined by controlling blow-through temperature…
An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle is constituted by including a blower (5) provided in the air conditioning duct of vehicle, a blower motor for driving the blower, a motor control circuit for controlling the voltage applied to the blower motor and a microcomputer (11) for controlling the…
The air conditioning control for a motor vehicle air conditioning has a computer to evaluate a comfortable temperature (Tco) for a passenger in a predetermined region of the vehicle compartment. The air conditioning control selectively modifies the conditioning operation dependent on the evaluation…
The system comprises an air-conditioning system (3) including a duct (4) for taking in air from outside the passenger compartment (1) and at least one duct (5) for taking in air from inside the passenger compartment (1), devices (10,11) for heating the air-flow taken in and devices (7-9) for…
An improved performance and cost-effective control for an automatic motor vehicle HVAC system in which the system variables are controlled without regard to a measured in-car temperature during steady-state conditions, and in which the steady-state control is modified during transient conditions by…