TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR VEHICLE TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE

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A temperature control device, in particular a vehicle temperature control device, comprises at least one temperature control body (12) which can be flowed through and/or flowed around by a heat carrier medium, constructed with magnetocaloric material, preferably of ring-like design, a magnetic field arrangement (24) rotatable about a rotation axis (A), wherein the magnetic field arrangement (24) provides magnetic field heating regions (36) arranged successively in the circumferential direction about the rotation axis and cooling regions (38) between magnetic field heating regions (36), wherein a plurality of heat carrier medium flow zones (40) arranged successively in the circumferential direction is provided with the temperature control body (12), wherein at least two heat carrier medium flow zones (40) adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction are assigned to a heat carrier medium circulation sector (S), wherein at least one heat carrier medium flow zone (50) can be flowed through and/or flowed around by heat input fluid for introducing heat into this heat carrier medium flow zone (50), and/or wherein at least one heat carrier medium flow zone (52) can be flowed through and/or flowed around by heat removal fluid for removing heat from this heat carrier medium flow zone (52).

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