Patent ID: 9701191
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B60K,Y02T

Claim:
1. A grille shutter device for a vehicle, the vehicle having an engine placed in an engine room provided in a front part of the vehicle, the engine including a cylinder head and a cylinder block, a grille opening being provided at a front side of the vehicle and communicating with the engine room, and a radiator constituting a cooling device of the engine being provided in correspondence with an entire region in an upper and lower direction of the grille opening, wherein the grille shutter device includes: the grille shutter device further includes a block lower-part temperature detecting unit configured to detect a temperature of a lower part of the cylinder block, the grille shutter is positioned to control the running air flowing to the lower part of the cylinder block of the engine, and the control unit is configured to control the drive unit to control the opening degree of the grille shutter according to a detected temperature of the lower part of the cylinder block.