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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110233287 | THERMOSTAT DEVICE Provided is a thermostat device which improves the assembling work, reduces the manufacturing cost, and transfers heat to a temperature sensing/operating part more efficiently. The thermostat device includes a cylindrical high-temperature-coolant rectification part whic... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20100095908 | Multi-thermostat engine cooling system A cooling system for an engine is disclosed. The cooling system may have a pump driven by the engine to pressurize coolant, a single heat exchanger configured to cool pressurized coolant, and an aftercooler configured to transfer heat from air entering the engine to pre... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20090242652 | Power saving compressor and control logic An air conditioner control method may entail measuring an evaporator first temperature at an exit side of the evaporator, maintaining the evaporator first temperature, measuring a length of time that the evaporator maintains the evaporator first temperature, providing a... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090140055 | Thermostat Device The thermostat device is installed in a coolant circuit of an engine 1, and is provide with an operating member 7 containing a thermal expansion element 15 which expands and contracts according to a temperature change of coolant to change a longitud... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090114183 | Transmission Thermostat Device A transmission thermostat device includes a body having first and second input ports and first and second output ports. A first fluid path extends between the first input port and the first output port. A second fluid path extends between the second input port and the s... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090020079 | CIRCULATION SYSTEM, MIXING ELEMENT The invention relates to a circulation system with at least one first partial flow which can flow through a first heat exchanger and a second partial flow of a first medium. According to the invention, said system comprise also at least one second heat exchanger, in par... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080135633 | Thermostat Valve Arrangement Thermostat valve arrangement for the cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine in which a main valve member of a main valve is movably mounted in a housing which may be pressed against a main valve seat by a spring, in which a bypass valve member of a bypass valv... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20070290056 | Flow control thermostat for internal combustion engines and method of use of same A thermostat for an internal combustion engine. The thermostat includes a tube type bypass valve member; a spring to keep said valve member in a closed position and a temperature sensitive actuator to move said valve member to an open position. A flow control element is... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070175414 | Cooling apparatus for internal combustion engine A cooling apparatus includes a thermostat that adjusts a feed rate of coolant to a radiator, estimating means that estimates a coolant temperature simulated value at least based on the detection value of an intake-air temperature sensor, and diagnosis means that diagnos... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070074681 | Engine cooling apparatus An engine cooling apparatus includes a cooling water outlet communicating with a water jacket provided in a cylinder block and a cylinder head provided on an intake port side of the cylinder head. A thermostat switches a path for cooling water discharged from the coolin... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070029396 | Method for triggering a thermostat The invention relates to a cooling system with pulse-width triggering for the operating elements on the valves of the thermostat being subjected to closed-loop control in an adaptive manner. The aim is to reach the required temperature level in the coolant circuit as qu... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060214017 | Control valve with improved sealing for a fluid circulation system A control valve (10) for a fluid circulation circuit comprises a body (12) which is equipped with a fluid inlet (18) and with at least two fluid outlets (20, 22, 24) and which delimits a housing of revolution for an adjusting element (26 | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060201455 | Control valve for cooling circuit A control valve that forms part of a cooling circuit comprising a first branch which contains a radiator and a second branch that constitutes a bypass of a radiator, and its method of use, are described. When used in a motor vehicle combustion engine cooling circuit, th... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060016900 | Oil cooler bypass valve A valve actuating mechanism for a transmission/engine fluid cooler bypass valve of the type in which a responsive element expands to urge a valve member against a valve seat and thereby causes transmission fluid to flow through an oil fluid cooler. A cast valve housing ... | 01/26/2006 |
| 20050268866 | Thermostatic valve for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine In a thermostatic valve for a cooling system of an internal combustion engine with an inlet connection, a first outlet connection and a second outlet connection, and first, second and third valve elements for closing and opening the inlet and first and second outlet con... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050252462 | Water outlet box provided with a thermostat and manufacturing process A water out-let box comprising a regulating thermostat principally made up of a valve to block an opening of a passage emerging in the box, the valve being stressed against its seat, formed by the peripheral edge of the above-mentioned opening, by an elastic loading mea... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050161519 | Thermostat-control valve for heat exchanger A control valve for a heat exchanger adapted to temper the temperature of a first fluid by heat exchange with a second fluid. The control valve includes a housing adapted to fasten adjacent a wall of the heat exchanger, with the housing defining a chamber separate from ... | 07/28/2005 |
