Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rankine cycle system for vehicle
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Application No.: US15335987Application Date: 2016-10-27
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Publication No.: US10253656B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Manabu Tateno
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
- Priority: JP2015-244960 20151216
- Main IPC: F01K23/06
- IPC: F01K23/06 ; H02K7/18 ; F01K23/10

Abstract:
A Rankine cycle system includes a boiler configured to apply waste heat to refrigerant circulating in an internal-combustion engine to vaporize the refrigerant; a gas-liquid separator configured to separate gas-liquid two-phase refrigerant, sent from the boiler, into gas phase fluid and liquid phase fluid; a superheater configured to superheat the gas phase fluid, sent from the gas-liquid separator, through heat exchange with exhaust gas of the internal-combustion engine; an expander configured to expand the gas phase fluid, passing through the superheater, to recover thermal energy, and a condenser configured to condense the gas phase fluid, passing through the expander, to return the gas phase fluid to liquid phase fluid. The gas-liquid separator is fixed to a cylinder head of the internal-combustion engine. It is preferable that the gas-liquid separator is configured to include a bracket, and is fixed to the cylinder head via the bracket.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170175587A1 RANKINE CYCLE SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2017-06-22
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