Patent Document:

in fig1 designates a six - cylinder engine with a coolant inlet conduit 2 from an oil cooler 3 and an outlet conduit 4 to a thermostat 5 , which distributes the coolant from the engine 1 between a conduit 6 to a radiator 7 and a by - pass 8 which , as does a conduit 9 from the radiator 7 , communicates with a suction conduit 10 to a coolant pump 11 , the pressure conduit 12 of which opens into the oil cooler 3 . together with a coolant circuit 13 , 14 via an expansion tank 15 , the coolant system shown and described above is a conventional system . from the coolant inlet conduit 2 of the engine , there branches off a coolant inlet conduit 20 to a cooling element 21 , through which exhaust , recirculated to the engine intake side , passes for exhaust cooling with the engine coolant . the design , function and connection to the exhaust conduit of the cooling element are known and do not need to be shown and described in more detail here . from the conduit 13 to the expansion tank 15 , a conduit 22 branches off to a heater element 23 , which is placed in a known manner in or near the vehicle cab . an outlet conduit 24 is connected to the suction conduit 10 of the pump 11 via conduit 14 from the expansion tank 15 . in the conduit 22 to the heater element 23 there is coupled in a known manner a control valve 25 , by means of which the output of the heater element can be regulated by controlling the coolant flow to the heater element . the valve 25 can be a pwm - valve , known in this context . instead of connecting in a known manner the cooling element 21 outlet directly via the engine coolant outlet to the suction side of the coolant pump 11 , in accordance with the invention an outlet conduit 26 is connected directly to the inlet conduit 22 of the heater element 23 , so that coolant , heated by the recirculated exhaust , is circulated through the heater element 23 . the hot exhaust heats the coolant in the cooling element much more rapidly than the engine can heat the coolant in the engine coolant channels , and thus the heater element is supplied with hot coolant in a fraction of the time it takes to reach the same temperature via the engine . fig1 shows a preferred embodiment of an installation according to the invention , which is particularly , but not exclusively , intended for heavy diesel vehicles , which have , in their existing heater units , a pwm - control valve in the coolant supply conduit 22 to the heater element 23 . here , a thermostatic valve 27 is arranged in the outlet conduit 26 from the cooling element 21 . the thermostatic valve 27 regulates the temperature of the coolant flowing out from the cooling element 21 , and is suitably set so that the temperature is somewhat higher than the coolant temperature in the engine . a suitable temperature can be about 95 ° c . from cold start and until the engine has reached working temperature , the valve 25 regulates the flow through it in relation to the thermostatic valve 27 , so that the flow through the valves 25 , 27 is approximately the same , which means that practically all of the outflow from the cooling element 21 will go to the heater element 23 and that there will be no or practically no added flow from the engine outlet side via the conduit 22 . fig2 shows an embodiment of an installation according to the invention which differs from that described above in that it lacks , firstly , a valve corresponding to the pwm - valve 25 and , secondly , a thermostatic valve corresponding to the thermostatic valve 27 . instead , a valve 30 is arranged in the engine coolant outlet to the thermostatic valve 5 . the installation in fig2 is primarily , but not exclusively , intended for passenger cars , in which the air temperature in the passenger compartment is controlled by mixing cold air and heated air , in contrast to the preceding example , where the air temperature was controlled by the coolant temperature . in passenger car heaters , there is in general a valve ( not shown ), which closes off the coolant flow entirely when no heating is desired . when cold - starting , the valve 30 is kept closed or essentially closed . the valve 30 can be controlled by the coolant temperature of the engine and , in this case , a minimal flow is required for the control function , but the valve 30 can also be controlled by other control parameters , and it can be , in this case , kept completely closed during a short period after engine start . with the valve 30 completely or practically completely closed at cold - starting , only a small amount of the total coolant in the system will circulate through the cooling element 21 and the heating element 23 . in an engine installation with a total coolant amount of about 5 liters , we are dealing here with about 1 liter . in addition to a very rapid heating of the heating element 23 , there is also achieved a more rapid heating of the walls of the combustion chamber , since no coolant is circulating through the engine when the valve 30 is closed . the pump only needs to circulate a fraction of the total amount of coolant , in the example shown only a fifth of the total amount of coolant . the pump power is reduced , which saves fuel . in a passenger car installation , the time from cold start to a noticeable warming of the air was reduced from about three minutes to less than 30 seconds . in a passenger car it is not always necessary to have an oil - cooler 3 , but if it is required , it can be placed as shown in fig2 . in order to prevent coolant circulation through the engine at cold - start , as an alternative to the valve 30 , a valve 31 can be arranged as shown in fig3 in the coolant inlet to the engine .

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