US 12,168,384 B2
Vehicle cooling device
Nariyuki Yoshinaga, Tokyo (JP); Kanae Okuma, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Koizumi, Tokyo (JP); and Yasutomo Kimura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/680,342.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-048802 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0305873 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00028 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00278 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00085 (2013.01); B60H 2001/00128 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle cooling device comprising:
a duct communicating with a heating element disposed in a vehicle;
an opening provided in the duct, positioned below a seat surface part of a seat disposed above a floor panel, and opening to a passenger compartment; and
a fan supplying air suctioned into the duct from the opening to the heating element, wherein
the opening is positioned on a vehicle-body rear side with respect to a seat fixing part on a vehicle-body front side among seat fixing parts for fixing the seat to the floor panel in a state in which it is disposed on a vehicle-body rear side of a front end of the seat surface part,
the opening is an intake port for suctioning air in the passenger compartment,
the duct is an intake duct for guiding the air suctioned from the intake port to the heating element,
the intake port is positioned on a vehicle-body rear side with respect to a protruding part protruding in a vehicle-body upward direction from the floor panel below the seat surface part,
the protruding part is provided above a pressure valve which is provided in the fuel tank provided below the floor panel, and
the intake port is positioned on a vehicle-body rear side of the protruding part.