Patent ID: 8016206
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: B60H,F01P,F02F

Abstract:
1. An automobile having an interior in which heating of the interior is performed by making use of a coolant for cooling an internal combustion engine, comprising: a heating means of the interior for radiating heat absorbed by said coolant after cooling said internal combustion engine and for making use of the radiated heat to heat said interior; and a bubble separating means for removing bubbles included in said coolant and for feeding the coolant without bubbles to said heating means, wherein said bubble separating means comprises a receiving chamber to receive the coolant after cooling the internal combustion engine, the receiving chamber being constructed and arranged for substantially horizontal flow of coolant along a length thereof and comprising an inlet centrally disposed along the length, a first outlet at a first end thereof and connected to a radiator of the automobile, and a second outlet at an opposite end thereof, a feeding chamber to feed the received coolant into the heating means, and a communication portion opened at the second end of the receiving chamber positioned on a downstream side in a main direction of flow of the coolant through the receiving chamber, the communication portion communicating between the second end of the receiving chamber and the feeding chamber, the communication portion having a cross-sectional area which is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the receiving chamber and the feeding chamber, the receiving chamber and the communication portion being arranged such that the coolant flows substantially horizontally into the receiving chamber from the inlet and flows substantially horizontally through the receiving chamber along the longitudinal direction to the communication portion before flowing to the feeding chamber.