The specific embodiment
Fig. 1 illustrates the machine 10 with driving engine 12.Machine 10 can be carried out and for example mining industry, building industry, agricultural, generating or the relevant certain operations of any other industry known in the art.For example, machine 10 specifically can be a kind of muck haulage machine, for example bulldozer, loader, grab excavator, excavating machine, road grader, tip car or any other suitable muck haulage machine.Machine 10 also can be the for example work machine of generator set, pump or another kind of form of a kind of stationary machine.
Driving engine 12 can comprise a plurality of parts, and the collaborative combustion fuel/air mixture of said a plurality of parts also produces horsepower output.Especially, driving engine 12 can comprise engine block 14, and engine block 14 comprises a plurality of cylinder 16, is slidably disposed on each cylinder 16 in-to-in piston 18 and each cylinder 16 cooresponding cylinder cover (not shown).Can expect that driving engine 12 can comprise additional or various parts, the for example corresponding air-valve assembly of each cylinder cover, one or more fuel injector and other parts well known in the art.In order to describe the present invention, driving engine 12 illustrates and is described as a kind of four stroke diesel engine.But, it will be recognized by those skilled in the art that driving engine 12 can be the combustion engine of any other type, for example gasoline or dry gas engine.
Cylinder 16, piston 18 and cylinder cover can form combustion chamber 20.In the embodiment shown, driving engine 12 comprises four combustion chambers 20.But, can expect that driving engine 12 can comprise more or less combustion chamber 20, and combustion chamber 20 can be arranged to inline type structure, " V " shape structure or any other appropriate structures.
Also illustrate as Fig. 1, driving engine 12 can include the one or more systems that machine 10 operations and driving engine 12 power are exported that are beneficial to.Especially; Machine 10 can comprise driving engine 12 air air gulp system 22, driving engine 12 is operably connected to the speed change system 24 of one or more ground engagement device 26, the hydraulic executing system 28 that is installed to the operation tool 30 on the machine 10 and cooling module 32, this cooling module 32 is arranged to be used for removing the heat in driving engine 12, air gulp system 22, speed change system 24 and the hydraulic executing system 28.Can expect; Driving engine 12 can comprise additional system; For example fuel system, lubricating system, brake system, a/c system, control system and the known system of other this type, these systems can be used for the heat that makes things convenient for the operation of machine and cooling module 32 also capable of using to discharge.
Air air gulp system 22 can comprise the device of supercharged air being introduced the combustion chamber 20 of driving engine 12.For example, air air gulp system 22 can comprise the one or more compressors 35 (only showing among Fig. 1) that are communicated with one or more inlet (not shown) fluids of each cylinder cover.Can expect; Can comprise additional parts and/or other parts in the air air gulp system 22; For example, one or more air filters, waste gate or bypass disc, flow regulating valve, recirculation valve and other device that is used for introducing supercharged air as known in the art to combustion chamber 20.
Compressor 35 can arrive predetermined pressure stage with the air compression of inflow engine 12.Compressor 35 can be provided with in parallel connection, and compressor specifically can be the compressor of fixed geometry, the compressor of geometry-variable or the compressor of any other type as known in the art.Can expect that compressor also can change series connection setting into, perhaps air air gulp system 22 can only comprise a compressor 35.
Speed change system 24 comprises that mutual action is to be delivered to the element of ground engagement device 26 from driving engine 12 with power in the scope of an output speed ratio.One of them element can comprise tor-con 34.Tor-con 34 can comprise the for example a pair of relative hydraulic pressure impeller by the pressure oil driving, and said hydraulic pressure impeller makes driving engine 12 be connected with a mechanical stepping speed change system/step change transmission (not shown) selectivity, the part connects and/or releasing connects.Tor-con 34 can allow driving engine 12 to be independent of the speed change system rotation to a certain extent.Oil pressure through adjustment supply tor-con 34 can change the independent rotation amount between driving engine 12 and the said speed change system.
Hydraulic executing system 28 comprises the fluidic component of a plurality of collaborative move operation instruments 30.Especially; Hydraulic executing system 28 can comprise one or more hydraulic linear actuating mechanisms 36 that driven by pressure oil; Hydraulic linear actuating mechanism 36 operation response persons' order and optionally stretch out and withdraw, thus improve and reduce operation tool 30 with respect to machine 10.Can expect; If necessary; Hydraulic executing system 28 also can comprise or comprise alternatively the rotary actuating mechanism (not shown) that is used for rotary manipulation instrument 30; And/or said hydraulic actuating unit 36 can be used for operating machine 10, braking machine 10, perhaps accomplish other the task relevant with machine.
Cooling module 32 can comprise that common cooperation is to take away the parts of heat from driving engine 12, air gulp system 22, speed change system 24 and hydraulic executing system 28.For example, cooling module 32 can comprise coplane heat exchanger first row 38, coplane heat exchanger secondary series 40 and be arranged on driving engine 12 and first row 38, secondary series 40 between cooling fan 42.
Cooling fan 42 can be driven by driving engine 12 indirectly.Especially; As shown in Figure 2; Cooling fan 42 can comprise input equipment 44, and for example belt-driving pulley, hydraulic drive motor or the electrical motor and fixing or adjustable that is installed on driving engine 12 or the machine 10 are connected the fan blade 46 on this input equipment 44.Cooling fan 42 can make it to pass successively first row 38 and secondary series 40 to impel fan blade 46 blow air by driving engine 12 power supplies.
First row 38 can comprise two heat exchangers 48,50 with respect to the gravity direction horizontal location.Heat exchanger 48 can be vertically set on the top of heat exchanger 50, and links to each other with air air gulp system 22.For example, heat exchanger 48 can be that fluid connects with the air that is used for before inrush of air driving engine 12 cooling compressor 35 upper reaches or air downstream to air after cooler (ATAAC).Windstream from compressor 35 can be vertically downward, and the inlet that passes top first side 52 of heat exchanger 48 arrives first end 54.Can change about 90 ° from the direction of intake air stream, arrive second opposed end 56 essentially horizontally to flow through heat exchanger 48, and change about 90 ° direction once more, to flow through the outlet of top first side 52 in the opposite directionly vertically upward with air admission.Top first side 52 of heat exchanger 48 can be oppositely arranged with heat exchanger 50.
Heat exchanger 48 is compared with heat exchanger 50, can have higher average running temperature, and discharge more heat.That is to say that when machine 10 was worked under specified situation, the inlet temperature of heat exchanger 48 was approximately 150 ℃, the inlet mass velocity is approximately 0.188 Kilograms Per Second.Like this, when the air themperature of cooling fan 42 discharges was approximately 40 ℃, the temperature out of heat exchanger 48 was approximately 62 ℃, discharges the heat of about 30kW.
Heat exchanger 50, concrete example such as hydraulic oil cooler (HOC) can link to each other with hydraulic executing system 28.The oil stream that flows into and/or flow out hydraulic actuating unit 36 can horizontal flow be crossed the inlet on first end 58 of heat exchanger 50, and the outlet of passing on the second opposed end 60 is flowed out.When machine 10 was worked under specified situation, the inlet temperature of heat exchanger 50 was approximately 86 ℃, and the inlet flow velocity is approximately 80L/min.Like this, when the air themperature of cooling fan 42 discharges was approximately 40 ℃, the temperature out of heat exchanger 50 was approximately 76 ℃, discharges the heat of about 20kW.
With respect to the windstream that cooling fan 42 produces, secondary series 40 is arranged on the downstream of first row 38, and secondary series 40 comprises two vertical orientated heat exchangers 62,64.Heat exchanger 62 can be configured to receive the windstream from the end 56,60 of heat exchanger 48,50 respectively, and heat exchanger 64 can be configured to receive the windstream from opposite end 54,58.Similarly; The upper end of two heat exchangers 62,64 (promptly; Flow into the relevant end of stream with the fluid of heat) can be configured to receive windstream from heat exchanger 48, and the lower end of two heat exchangers 62,64 (flowing out the relevant end of stream with cold fluid) can be configured to receive the windstream from heat exchanger 50.Two heat exchangers 62,64 are compared with in the heat exchanger 48,50 any one, can have higher average running temperature, and discharge more heat.
Heat exchanger 62 is specially radiator, is arranged to be used for being released in the perhaps heat of the air mixture of mixing of on-cycle water in the driving engine 12, ethanediol, water/ethylene glycol mixture.Cooling system conditioner from driving engine 12 can flow vertically downward, passes the inlet on top first end 66 of heat exchanger 62 along the direction substantially parallel with gravity, arrives relative bottom second end 68.
Heat exchanger 62 is compared with heat exchanger 64, can have lower average running temperature, and discharges less heat.That is to say that when machine 10 was worked under specified situation, the inlet temperature of heat exchanger 62 was approximately 99 ℃, the inlet flow velocity is approximately 250L/min.Like this, when the air themperature of cooling fan 42 discharges was approximately 40 ℃, the temperature out of heat exchanger 62 was approximately 86 ℃, discharges the heat of about 56.5kW.
Heat exchanger 64, concrete example such as torque converter oil cooler (TCOC) can link to each other with speed change system 24.The oil of inflow and/or outflow tor-con 34 flows the inlet on first end 70 that also can flow through heat exchanger 64 vertically downward, and the outlet of passing on the second opposed end 72 is flowed out.When machine 10 was worked under specified situation, the inlet temperature of heat exchanger 64 was approximately 117 ℃, and the inlet flow velocity is approximately 80L/min.Like this, when the air themperature of cooling fan 42 discharges was approximately 40 ℃, the temperature out of heat exchanger 64 was approximately 94 ℃, discharges the heat of about 61kW.
Fig. 3 illustrates the embodiment of an exemplary heat exchanger.Although it is similar that the embodiment of Fig. 3 is described as with the embodiment of heat exchanger 50, perhaps be described as a kind of hydraulic oil cooler that is connected on combustion engine and the construction machine, heat exchanger 48,62 can just in time have same or similar hardware construction with 64.It will also be appreciated that although the heat exchanger embodiments of Fig. 3 is described to the heat exchanger of a kind of air to liquid, under the situation of needs, this heat exchanger also can combine two kinds of liquid coolants or two kinds of gaseous coolants to use alternatively.
Heat exchanger 50 can comprise first end cap 74, second end cap 76, the many pipelines 78 that between first end cap 74 and second end cap 76, extend and a plurality of radiating gills 80 of horizontally set between two-layer pipeline 78.Pipeline 78 can be that it passes first and second end caps 74,76 by first end 58 and extends to second end 60 by the heat-conducting metal straight fluid conduit systems of hollow basically processed of aluminium, copper or corrosion-resistant steel for example.The oil that from hydraulic executing system 28, flows out can flow into the pipeline 78 on first end 58 dispersedly, and the pipeline 78 from second end 60 is assembled to turn back to hydraulic executing system 28.In one embodiment, can arrange three pipelines 78 among each coplane row.
Radiating gill 80 can be connected on the pipeline 78 with heat conduction and be arranged between two discharge pipes 78.Particularly; A plurality of radiating gills of being processed by heat-conducting metal such as aluminium, copper or corrosion-resistant steel 80 can be basically perpendicular to the length direction of pipeline 78 and arrange; And be arranged between two discharge pipes 78, thereby the air that cooling fan 42 is discharged can flow and is passed in the passage that forms between two radiating gills 80.Because windstream is crossed passage and oil flows through conduit 78, air can contact heat spreader 80 and/or the outside face of pipeline 78, discharges with the heat conduction that the oil in the pipeline 78 are carried.Empty both temperature of G&O and flow velocity can influence capacity of heat transmission between the two.
As shown in Figure 4, a plurality ofly be trapezoidal passage 82 basically and can form by cold sink 80.That is to say that cold sink 80 can be regarded as the separately sidewall sections of each passage 82.Each radiating gill 80 can be not parallel to the radiating gill of direct neighbor, but is parallel to radiating gill with interval, thereby can repeat to form essentially identical passage 82.In addition, each radiating gill 80 can be the passage 82a of two direct neighbors, the sidewall sections of 82b, and the passage 82a of direct neighbor, each among the 82b are inverted each other.Like this, flow through a passage for example passage 82a air can with the outside face direct contact of last discharge pipe 78, and flow through adjacency channel for example passage 82b air can with the outside face direct contact of following discharge pipe 78.
Each passage 82 can cross bending.That is to say that each passage 82 can form has similar basically sinusoidal repetition S shape 84, repeat S shape 84 and be positioned on the horizontal transverse plane of each passage 82.In other words; First distance on the length direction of each passage 82; The symmetrical center line 86 of passage 82 can be provided with (with reference to Fig. 3) apart from first end cap, 74 first distances; And the second distance place on each passage 82 length direction, line of centers 86 can be apart from the 74 second distance settings of first end cap.
Each passage 82 can change on the length direction of each passage 82 at the width " w " at border surface 88 places of the radiating gill 80 that connects two direct neighbors.That is to say that each passage 82 can have a height dimension " h ", two adjacent radiating gills 80 are symmetrical basically about this passage.Size " h " can keep substantially constant along the length direction of each passage 82.But the interior angle θ that forms between the radiating gill 80 of border surface 88 and direct neighbor can change.For example, the cross sectional drawing shown in Fig. 5 A illustrates on the length direction of passage 82 first distance (that is, being in the intermediate point between the sinusoidal adjacent vertex basically), the interior angle θ that forms between the radiating gill 80 of border surface 88 and direct neighbor
1It can be the obtuse angle.Similarly, the exemplary cross section shown in Fig. 5 B illustrates on the length direction of passage 82 at the second distance place (that is, sinusoidal apex portion), the interior angle θ that forms between the radiating gill 80 of border surface 88 and direct neighbor
2It can be acute angle.That is to say the width " w at place, horizontal sinusoidal summit on the passage 82
1" can be greater than the width " w at basic intermediate point place between two summits
2".Should note; Even if the wide variety and the angle θ that consider said horizontal sine curve, border surface 88 are (promptly; Radiating gill 80 is with respect to the angle direction of border surface 88) alternately obtuse angle-acute nature, passage 82 is gone up the cross-sectional area at any qualifying bit place of putting along its length and the constraint that causes thus can keep substantially constant.
In alternate embodiment shown in Figure 6; Passage 82 can replace with on another direction that is basically perpendicular to each passage 82 length direction crooked; Perhaps except that sine curve, on another direction that is basically perpendicular to each passage 82 length direction, bending is arranged also with described horizontal orientation.That is to say that on the direction of height dimension " h ", each passage 82 can form to have and be similar to sinusoidal repetition S shape 90 basically, this repetition S shape 90 is located in about its symmetrical vertical plane at the adjacent radiating gill 80 in any qualifying bit place of putting.In other words; First distance on each passage 82 length direction; The border surface 88 of passage 82 can be provided with (with reference to Fig. 3) apart from first discharge pipe, 78 first distances; And the second distance place on each passage 82 length direction, border surface 88 can be apart from the 78 second distance settings of first discharge pipe.
The vertical curve of each passage 82 can be discontinuous.Particularly, section 92 (being the inside and outside of border surface) of the border surface 88 at each sinusoidal concave vertex and concave crown point place can be roughly flat, and are parallel to each other basically.The length of section 92 can change, and this depends on it uses, imports and pass through the coolant fluid of heat exchanger 50, the temperature and/or the flow rate of fluid of cooling system conditioner.
Industrial applicibility
Cooling system of the present invention can be used in must be with in a plurality of heat exchangers are closely assembled and high efficiency and heat radiation is the very important any machine and power system application.Especially, cooling system of the present invention can provide unique heat exchanger assembling strategy, and this strategy makes and in limited space, improves radiating efficiency.System of the present invention also provides novel radiating gill to arrange that this layout is used in and makes maximize heat transfer in the heat exchanger, and is minimum to the constraint of flowing simultaneously.The operation of explanation cooling module 32 now.
In machine 10 operational processs, various fluids, air gulp system 22, speed change system 24 and hydraulic executing system 28 in the driving engine 12 can be heated.For example, in order to cool off, engine coolant can circulate and therefrom absorb heat in the outer wall of engine block 14, cylinder 16 and/or cylinder cover.Compressor 35 air compressed can be because be compressed and heat up, and, when temperature with fuel mix and when burning can raise more.The pressure oil that flows through the impeller of tor-con 34 possibly worked continuously, and this can make its temperature build-up.Similarly, the pressure oil that is used for move operation instrument 30 can work and be heated continuously.If do not solve, the temperature of rising possibly weaken validity, perhaps even cause these corresponding system et out of orders.
In order to keep the normal operating temperature of various machines and engine system, the fluid of each system can import special-purpose heat exchanger and dispel the heat.For example, the upper reaches of compressor 35 or air downstream can import and flow through heat exchanger 48 (ATAAC).Oil from tor-con 34 can import and flow through heat exchanger 64 (TCOC).Oil from hydraulic actuating unit 36 can import and flow through heat exchanger 50 (HOC).Cooling system conditioner from driving engine 12 can import and flow through heat exchanger 62 (radiator).When these fluids flow through their separately heat exchangers, can make cooling fan 42 rotations, at first import and pass heat exchanger 48 and 50 thereby produce, pass the windstream of heat exchanger 62 and 64 then.
Because have heat exchanger and the hottest part install in series of another row heat exchanger of a row coplane heat exchanger of maximum average temperature and maximum heat dissipation capacity, so the efficient of cooling module 32 can be optimum.That is to say that hot air can have very big influence to cold downstream heat exchanger, but little or less at least to the downstream heat exchanger influence of heat, this is because the downstream heat exchanger of heat still and have the bigger temperature difference between the inlet air.On the contrary, when running into hot air, there is the less temperature difference between colder downstream heat exchanger and the air, gives the heat of air less thereby can discharge.
The operation of an exemplary heat exchanger of explanation below.When oil flow through the pipeline 78 of heat exchanger 50, the air that cooling fan 42 is discharged can import and pass passage 82 and absorb the heat of the outside face of radiating gill 80, border surface 88 and pipeline 78.Because described horizontal sine curve (referring to Fig. 4) possibly cause importing the air atom and radiating gill 80 collisions of each passage 82.This collision can cause the three-dimensional motion of air atom, and this has improved the turbulent flow melange effect of heat exchanger 50.And, because the total cross-sectional area of any qualification position on the passage 82 whole length can remain unchanged, so that fluid passes the influence that the constraint of passage receives is little.
As for the embodiment among Fig. 6, also can realize with Fig. 4 in the roughly the same operation of embodiment and obtain identical effect.But, compare with the embodiment of Fig. 4, as stated, the sine curve of Fig. 6 can comprise par 92 at its place, summit.Since the air atom among the embodiment of Fig. 4 flows forward and with the collision of summit opposition side, particulate might reflect and leaves border surface 88 owing to the extreme angle variation of track.Par 92 can be used for weakening this extreme angle variation and reflect the possibility of leaving border surface 88, plays the heat transfer capability of raising heat exchanger 50 and/or the effect of efficient.
For one of ordinary skill in the art, without departing from the present invention, obviously can carry out various modifications and modification to cooling system of the present invention.Consider the explanation and the practice of cooling system disclosed herein, other embodiment of said cooling system is conspicuous as far as one of ordinary skill in the art.Should be appreciated that it only is exemplary that above-mentioned explanation and example should be considered to, true scope of the present invention is defined by accompanying claims and their counterpart.
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10. machine 12. driving engines
14. engine block 16. cylinders
18. piston 20. combustion chambers
22. air air gulp system 24. speed change systems
26. ground engagement system 28. hydraulic executing systems
30. operation tool 32. cooling modules
34. tor-con 36. hydraulic linear actuating mechanisms
38. first row, 40. secondary series
42. cooling fan 44. input equipments
46. fan blade 48. heat exchangers (ATAAC)
50. heat exchanger (HOC) 52. tops first sides (heat exchanger 48)
54. first end (heat exchanger 48), 56. second ends (heat exchanger 48)
58. first end (heat exchanger 50), 60. second ends (heat exchanger 50)
62. heat exchanger (radiator) 64. heat exchangers (TCOC)
66. top first end (heat exchanger 62) 68. bottoms, second ends (heat exchanger 62)
70. first end (heat exchanger 64), 72. second ends (heat exchanger 64)
74. first end cap, 76. second end caps
78. pipeline 80. radiating gills
82. passage 82a passage 82b passage
84.S shape 86. line of centerss
88. border surface 90.S shape