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Automobile condenser electric fan controller

Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1993-07-27
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Granted: 1994-02-15
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Expires: 2013-07-27
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Abstract

Abstract An automobile condenser electric fan controller, which includes a high pass filter, an inverted comparator, and a relay, the inverted comparator comparing the signal obtained from the high pass filter with a reference DC level signal made according to predetermined critical speed and then providing a high potential or low potential output according to the comparison result, whereby the relay is controlled to turn on the automobile's condenser electric fan as the output of the inverted comparator and the output of the automobile's compressor both are at high potential; the relay is controlled to turn off the automobile's condenser electric fan as the output of the inverted comparator and the output of the automobile's compressor both are at low potential, or either one is at high potential while the other is at low potential.

Inventors

  • 👤 Che-Tzu Lin

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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CPC Classifications
B; B60; B60H; B60H1/00; B60H1/00642; B60H1/00814; B60H1/00821; B60H1/00828; B60H1/00735; B60H1/00764

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim 347 words
An automobile condenser electric fan controller installed in an automobile for automatically turning off a condenser electric fan of said automobile when a speed of said automobile surpasses a predetermined critical speed and for automatically turning on said condenser electric fan when said speed of said automobile below said predetermined critical speed, said controller comprising a working voltage source signal line connected to a battery of said automobile, a ground wire, a speed signal line connected in parallel to a speedometer of said automobile for providing a speed signal Ai, a compressor signal line connected in parallel to a low pressure switch of a compressor of said automobile for providing a compressor operating signal Bi having a high potential when said compressor is operating and a low potential when said compressor is not operating, an output control relay signal line, a filter for receiving a signal surpassing the predetermined critical speed reference signal Sth and converting the received signal into a corresponding DC level Ei, an inverted comparator for comparing the DC level Ei obtained from said filter with a reference DC level Vref and providing an output F according to the comparison result, said output F of said inverted comparator being at high potential when said DC level Ei is lower than said reference DC level Vref and being at low potential when said DC level Ei is higher than or equal to said reference DC level Vref, a first transistor connected between said inverted comparator and said output control relay signal line, and a second transistor connected between said first transistor and said compressor signal line, whereby said first and second transistor are electrically connected for turning on said condenser electric fan via said output control relay signal line when said output F and said compressor operating signal Bi both are at high potential, and said first and second transistor are electrically disconnected for turning off said condenser electric fan via said output control relay signal line when at least one of said output F and said compressor operating signal Bi is at low potential.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 347 words
An automobile condenser electric fan controller installed in an automobile for automatically turning off a condenser electric fan of said automobile when a speed of said automobile surpasses a predetermined critical speed and for automatically turning on said condenser electric fan when said speed of said automobile below said predetermined critical speed, said controller comprising a working voltage source signal line connected to a battery of said automobile, a ground wire, a speed signal line connected in parallel to a speedometer of said automobile for providing a speed signal Ai, a compressor signal line connected in parallel to a low pressure switch of a compressor of said automobile for providing a compressor operating signal Bi having a high potential when said compressor is operating and a low potential when said compressor is not operating, an output control relay signal line, a filter for receiving a signal surpassing the predetermined critical speed reference signal Sth and converting the received signal into a corresponding DC level Ei, an inverted comparator for comparing the DC level Ei obtained from said filter with a reference DC level Vref and providing an output F according to the comparison result, said output F of said inverted comparator being at high potential when said DC level Ei is lower than said reference DC level Vref and being at low potential when said DC level Ei is higher than or equal to said reference DC level Vref, a first transistor connected between said inverted comparator and said output control relay signal line, and a second transistor connected between said first transistor and said compressor signal line, whereby said first and second transistor are electrically connected for turning on said condenser electric fan via said output control relay signal line when said output F and said compressor operating signal Bi both are at high potential, and said first and second transistor are electrically disconnected for turning off said condenser electric fan via said output control relay signal line when at least one of said output F and said compressor operating signal Bi is at low potential.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 28 words
The automobile condenser electric fan controller of claim 1, wherein said critical speed is 50 km/hr and said reference DC level Vref is set based said critical speed.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 88 words
The automobile condenser electric fan controller of claim 1, which further comprises a converter for directly converting said speed signal Ai into a corresponding pulse signal, and a microprocessor unit for counting a frequency of said pulse signal, comparing the frequency of said pulse signal with a frequency of said predetermined critical speed and providing one of a high potential output and a low potential output based upon the comparison for controlling operation of said condenser electric fan according to the potential of said compressor operating signal Bi.

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