CN215213676U

CN215213676U - Intercooler, air inlet temperature adjusting system and vehicle

Info

Publication number: CN215213676U
Application number: CN202121108581.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 纪昭波
Original assignee: Great Wall Motor Co Ltd
Current assignee: Great Wall Motor Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-05-21
Filing date: 2021-05-21
Publication date: 2021-12-17
Anticipated expiration: 2031-05-21

Abstract

The utility model provides an intercooler, an intake air temperature adjusting system and a vehicle, which comprises an intercooler body, a guide plate and a driving device; one side of the guide plate is rotatably connected with the intercooler body; the driving device is in transmission connection with the guide plate and drives the guide plate to rotate so as to adjust the air inlet area. The utility model provides an intercooler, temperature regulation system and vehicle admits air can the pivoted guide plate through setting up, and then can adjust the amount of wind that advances of intercooler according to the external environment temperature of difference, can increase, reduce or completely cut off the area of advancing wind to increase or reduce the heat transfer, make the performance demand of the multiple different ambient temperature operating mode of adaptation of intercooler ability better.

Description

Intercooler, air inlet temperature adjusting system and vehicle

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of vehicle parts, concretely relates to intercooler, temperature regulation system and vehicle admits air.

Background

The intercooler of the automobile is mainly applied to a turbocharging system and is used for reducing the temperature of high-temperature air after pressurization so as to reduce the heat load of the engine and improve the air inflow, thereby increasing the power of the engine. However, the intercooler is sensitive to the temperature of the external environment, and under a high and cold working condition, especially when the vehicle runs continuously at a low load or at a high speed for a long time, ice blocks are easily formed inside the intercooler core, at the positions of an engine intake system, a throttle valve and the like to block the intake system or block the throttle valve, and the performance of the engine is affected even if the temperature of the intake air is too low, or even the power of the engine is insufficient, the engine stalls or the engine throttle valve fails; in a high-temperature environment, particularly in a working condition of rapid acceleration, the power performance of the transmitter is also influenced and the acceleration performance is attenuated due to high environment temperature, high supercharger pressure and large engine intake flow and the fact that the cooling speed of an intercooler cannot keep up with the temperature.

In order to solve the problem that the air outlet temperature is too low, an intelligent grid or a water-cooled intercooler is generally added in the intercooler, however, the intelligent grid can only be opened for a certain angle after being opened in a large circulation mode under the high-speed driving working condition, and the water-cooled intercooler can only relieve the icing caused by low-speed driving and prolong the icing time of high-speed driving, and the two modes can not solve the problem that the intercooler freezes under the high-cold working condition. In addition, in order to solve the problem of the too high temperature of giving vent to anger, increase intercooler size, improve fan power, increase air inlet area etc. generally, but above-mentioned design is great to the interior space arrangement influence of car, has increased the design degree of difficulty.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The embodiment of the utility model provides an intercooler, temperature regulation system and vehicle admits air aims at realizing playing the heat preservation effect to the intercooler under low temperature environment, can promote the heat exchange efficiency of intercooler simultaneously under the high temperature condition.

In order to achieve the above object, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme:

in a first aspect, an intercooler is provided, including:

the intercooler body is provided with an air cooling radiating surface;

one side of the guide plate is rotatably connected with the intercooler body; and

and the driving device is in transmission connection with the guide plate and drives the guide plate to rotate so as to adjust the air inlet area.

In a possible implementation manner, the plurality of guide plates are arranged and are respectively and rotatably connected to different edges of the intercooler body.

In a possible implementation manner, two guide plates are provided, and the two guide plates are respectively and rotatably connected to the edges of the two opposite sides of the intercooler body.

In one possible implementation, the driving device includes:

a drive motor; and

and the gear transmission assembly is respectively connected to the output shaft of the driving motor and the rotating shaft of the guide plate.

In a possible implementation manner, the intercooler further comprises a guide structure located on the side of the guide plate, a guide sliding block is arranged on the side edge of the guide plate, and a slide way in sliding fit with the guide sliding block is formed on the guide structure.

In a possible implementation manner, the free edge of the guide plate is provided with an end rod, the end rod is parallel to the free edge of the guide plate, and the end part of the end rod protrudes out of the side edge of the guide plate to form the guide sliding block.

In one possible implementation, the guide structure includes:

the arc-shaped guide piece is provided with an arc-shaped slide way; and

the support frame, connect in the arc guide with between the intercooler body.

In the embodiment of the application, in a conventional state, the guide plate is in a conventional state, and the intercooler body circulates air normally; when a vehicle runs in a high and cold environment, the guide plate can be rotated to a certain angle relative to the conventional state, even the intercooler body is completely closed, heat exchange of the intercooler body can be reduced or no longer carried out under the sealing of the guide plate, the outlet air temperature of the intercooler body can not be reduced to be too low after warm air subjected to turbocharging flows into the intercooler body, the problem that air inlet systems such as the intercooler body are frozen can not occur, and the heat insulation effect is achieved; when the vehicle is accelerated suddenly under high temperature environment, booster pressure risees, intercooler body inlet air temperature heaies up in the twinkling of an eye, can open certain angle with guide plate 2 for the conventional state is rotatory, and then increases the amount of wind that advances of intercooler body, improves heat exchange efficiency, and then can effectively reduce the inlet air temperature of engine, improves the dynamic property of accelerating suddenly. This application can pivoted guide plate through setting up, and then can be according to the external environment temperature regulation intercooler the amount of wind that advances of difference, can increase, reduce or completely cut off the area of the wind that advances to increase or reduce the heat transfer, the performance demand that makes the multiple different ambient temperature operating mode of adaptation of intercooler ability better.

In a second aspect, an intake air temperature adjusting system is provided, which includes the intercooler described above.

In a possible implementation manner, the intake air temperature adjusting system further comprises an intake air temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of the intake air of the engine, and the intake air temperature sensor is in communication connection with the driving device.

The beneficial effect of the temperature governing system that admits air that this application embodiment provided is roughly the same with the beneficial effect of above-mentioned intercooler, no longer gives unnecessary details here.

In a third aspect, a vehicle is also provided that includes the intake air temperature adjustment system described above.

The beneficial effect of the vehicle that this application embodiment provided is the same with the beneficial effect of above-mentioned temperature governing system that admits air, and no longer gives unnecessary details here.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic front view of an intercooler provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an operating principle of an intake air temperature adjusting system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which an intercooler is a side view;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a conventional state of the intercooler of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of the intercooler of the present invention in a high and cold condition;

fig. 6 is the state diagram of the intercooler under the high temperature working condition.

Description of reference numerals:

1. an intercooler body; 2. a baffle; 3. a drive device; 301. a drive motor; 302. a gear drive assembly; 4. a guide structure; 401. a slideway; 402. an arc-shaped guide member; 403. a support frame; 5. a guide slider; 6. an end bar; 7. an intake air temperature sensor; 8. an intercooler air inlet pipe; 9. intercooler outlet duct.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problem, technical solution and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly understood, the following description is given in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments to illustrate the present invention in further detail. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Referring to fig. 1 to fig. 6, an intercooler provided by the present invention will now be described. The intercooler comprises an intercooler body 1, a guide plate 2 and a driving device 3; the intercooler body 1 is provided with an air cooling radiating surface; one side of the guide plate 2 is rotatably connected with the intercooler body 1; the driving device 3 is in transmission connection with the guide plate 2, and the driving device 3 drives the guide plate 2 to rotate so as to adjust the air inlet area.

Compared with the prior art, in the intercooler provided by the embodiment, the guide plate 2 is in a conventional state, as shown in fig. 4, the intercooler body 1 circulates air normally; when a vehicle runs in a high and cold environment, the guide plate 2 can be rotated to close a certain angle relative to a conventional state, so that the forward air quantity is reduced, even the intercooler body 1 is completely closed, the forward air inlet is isolated (as shown in fig. 5), under the sealing of the guide plate 2, the heat exchange of the intercooler body 1 can be reduced or no longer carried out, after warm air subjected to turbocharging flows into the intercooler body 1, the air outlet temperature of the intercooler body 1 cannot be reduced to be too low, the problem that air inlet systems such as the intercooler body 1 are frozen can not occur, the heat insulation effect is achieved, and the problems that the combustion of an engine is insufficient, the efficiency is low, the oil consumption is high and the like due to the fact that too low air temperature is sucked can be solved; when the vehicle is accelerated suddenly under high temperature environment, booster pressure risees, intercooler body 1 inlet air temperature heaies up in the twinkling of an eye, can open certain angle with guide plate 2 for the conventional state rotation, as shown in fig. 6, and then increases intercooler body 1's the amount of wind that advances, improves heat exchange efficiency, and then can effectively reduce the inlet air temperature of engine, improves the dynamic property of accelerating suddenly.

This application can pivoted guide plate 2 through the setting, and then can be according to the external environment temperature regulation intercooler's of difference amount of wind that gos forward, can increase, reduce or completely cut off the area of the wind that gos forward to increase or reduce the heat transfer, the performance demand that makes the multiple different ambient temperature operating mode of adaptation of intercooler ability better.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 2, the air inlet end of the intercooler body 1 is connected with an intercooler air inlet pipe 8, the air outlet end is connected with an intercooler air outlet pipe 9, the intercooler air inlet pipe 8 is connected to the turbocharger, and the intercooler air outlet pipe 9 is connected to the internal combustion engine.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1 to 6, the flow guide plate 2 is provided with a plurality of flow guide plates 2, and the plurality of flow guide plates 2 are respectively rotatably connected to different edges of the intercooler body 1. Through setting up a plurality of guide plates 2 respectively, when realizing adjusting the area function of air inlet for the volume of single guide plate 2 reduces, and the external space that occupies when guide plate 2 opens is little, and is less to arranging the influence of peripheral spare part, and the design degree of difficulty is lower.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1 to 6, in order to simplify the structure of the intercooler to the greatest extent and achieve effective shielding of the flow guide plates 2, two flow guide plates 2 are provided, and the two flow guide plates 2 are respectively rotatably connected to two opposite side edges of the intercooler body 1. Of course, on the premise that the weight for simplifying the structure is reduced, the number of the guide plates 2 may be three, four, five, and the like, and the functions of blocking wind and opening induced wind can be satisfied, which are not listed here.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1 to 6, in order to adapt to the structure and distribution of a general intercooler, two guide plates 2 are respectively rotatably connected to the upper side edge and the lower side edge of an intercooler body 1, and an intercooler air inlet pipe 8 and an intercooler air outlet pipe 9 are respectively arranged on the left side and the right side of the intercooler body 1. The setting mode of this embodiment can adapt to the structure of the intercooler of most models, and is less to the influence that vehicle inner space arranged, is favorable to reducing the design degree of difficulty.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the driving device 3 includes a driving motor 301 and a gear assembly 302; the gear transmission assembly 302 is respectively connected with the output shaft of the driving motor 301 and the rotating shaft of the guide plate 2.

It should be noted that the gear transmission assembly 302 may include at least two transmission gears, one of which is fixedly connected to the output shaft of the driving motor 301, and the other of which is fixedly connected to the rotating shaft of the baffle 2, and the two gears are directly meshed or indirectly meshed through other gears; or, gear drive assembly 302 is worm gear type's transmission structure, for example, sets up the worm on the output shaft, sets up in worm meshing's worm wheel in guide plate 2's the pivot, through setting up worm gear structure, can make driving motor 301 can be more laminating in intercooler body's lateral wall setting for the structure is compacter, and space utilization is more reasonable.

On the basis of the above embodiment, referring to fig. 1 to 3, taking the case that two guide plates 2 are provided as an example, two driving motors 301 are respectively provided on two sides of the same guide plate 2, and the two driving motors 301 work synchronously to drive two sides of the same guide plate 2 to rotate synchronously at the same time, at this time, the two driving motors 301 corresponding to the same guide plate 2 can be respectively provided on two opposite side walls of the intercooler body 1. Alternatively, only one guide plate 2 may be provided with one driving motor 301, that is, the driving motor 301 corresponding to one guide plate 2 is provided on one side wall of the intercooler body 1.

Of course, the position where the driving motor and gear transmission assembly 302 is disposed is not particularly limited, and the transmission requirement can be satisfied.

In some embodiments, the gear assembly 302 may also be replaced by a chain transmission structure or a belt transmission structure, and the arrangement manner may refer to a conventional arrangement manner, which is not described herein again.

Of course, the transmission mode between the driving motor 301 and the air deflector 2 is not limited to the above-mentioned exemplary modes, and other transmission modes capable of meeting the transmission requirement and the space arrangement requirement may be adopted as long as the change of the forward air volume of the intercooler and the optimization of the intake air temperature of the engine can be realized, which are not listed here.

Specifically, the driving motor 301 is a stepping motor, which is a motor that converts an electric pulse signal into a corresponding angular displacement or linear displacement, receives a digital control signal and converts the digital control signal into a corresponding angular displacement or linear displacement, and has the advantages of high start-stop and reverse-rotation response speed, good position accuracy and motion repeatability, long service life, and suitability for vehicles.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the intercooler further includes a guide structure 4 located at a side of the guide plate 2, a guide slider 5 is disposed at a side edge of the guide plate 2, and the guide structure 4 is formed with a slide way 401 for slidably fitting with the guide slider 5. The guide structure 4 can limit the rotation of the guide plate 2 at the free end of the guide plate 2, so that the guide plate 2 is prevented from being separated from a normal rotating track, and the running stability of the guide plate 2 is improved.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the free edge of the deflector 2 is provided with an end bar 6, the end bar 6 is parallel to the free edge of the deflector 2, and the end portion protrudes from the side edge of the deflector 2 to form a guide slider 5. Because intercooler body 1's length is longer, rotate respectively at guide plate 2 and connect in intercooler body 1 under the condition of both sides edge about, guide plate 2's length is also longer, sets up end rod 6 through the free limit at guide plate 2, can play the effect of support and reinforcement to guide plate 2.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 3, the guide structure 4 includes an arcuate guide 402 and a support bracket 403; the arc guide 402 is formed with an arc-shaped slide 401; the support bracket 403 is connected between the arc guide 402 and the intercooler body 1. In this embodiment, the arc-shaped guide 402 and the support frame 403 may be matched to form a frame-type support structure, which requires less material and is beneficial to optimizing the weight parameters of the intercooler.

Based on the same inventive concept, referring to fig. 3, an embodiment of the present application further provides an intake air temperature adjusting system, including the intercooler.

In some embodiments, referring to fig. 3-6, the intake air temperature regulation system further includes an intake air temperature sensor 7 for sensing engine intake air temperature and communicatively coupled to the drive device 3.

The angle of rotation of the baffle 2 needs to be performed according to a temperature control strategy: when the air temperature sensor 7 senses that the air inlet temperature of the engine is lower than a first preset value, the driving device 3 drives the guide plate 2 to rotate and close for a certain angle; when the air temperature sensor 7 senses that the inlet air temperature of the engine is higher than a second preset value, the driving device 3 drives the guide plate 2 to rotate and open for a certain angle.

Specifically, in order to realize temperature sensing, the intake air temperature sensor 7 may be provided at the position of the throttle valve.

For example, the first preset value may be set to 0 ℃, that is, the adjustment structure is activated when the intake air temperature sensor 7 detects that the intake air temperature of the engine is lower than 0 ℃, so as to close the guide plate 2 by a certain angle, reduce heat exchange of the intercooler, and increase the intake air temperature of the engine until the intake air temperature of the engine approaches the range of 25 ℃ ± 5 ℃.

As another example, the second preset value may be set to 25 ℃ ± 5 ℃, that is, if the inlet air temperature of the engine is detected to be higher than 25 ℃ ± 5 ℃, the guide plate 2 is opened by a certain angle, the inlet air volume of the intercooler is increased, and the inlet air temperature of the engine is reduced until the inlet air temperature reaches the range of 25 ℃ ± 5 ℃.

Of course, the values of the first preset value and the second preset value are not limited to the above-described exemplary values, and are actually set according to the performance of the vehicle.

In addition, in order to ensure the service life of the guide plate 2 and the driving device 3, the adjusting frequency of the guide plate 2 cannot be too high; in order not to affect the timeliness of the intake air temperature regulation, the regulation frequency of the guide plate 2 cannot be too low.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the application also provides a vehicle comprising the intake air temperature regulating system.

The above description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the present invention, as any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principles of the present invention are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An intercooler, comprising:

the intercooler body is provided with an air cooling radiating surface;

2. The intercooler as in claim 1, wherein a plurality of the flow deflectors are provided, and the plurality of flow deflectors are rotatably attached to different edges of the intercooler body, respectively.

3. The intercooler as claimed in claim 2, wherein there are two of the flow guide plates, and the two flow guide plates are rotatably connected to two opposite side edges of the intercooler body, respectively.

4. An intercooler according to claim 1, wherein the driving means comprises:

a drive motor; and

5. The intercooler as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a guide structure at a side of the guide plate, wherein a guide slider is provided at a side edge of the guide plate, and the guide structure is formed with a slide rail for slidably engaging with the guide slider.

6. An intercooler according to claim 5, wherein the free edge of the guide plate is provided with end bars parallel to the free edge of the guide plate and having ends protruding beyond the sides of the guide plate to form the guide shoes.

7. An intercooler as claimed in claim 5, wherein the guide structure comprises:

the arc-shaped guide piece is provided with an arc-shaped slide way; and

the support frame, connect in the arc guide with between the intercooler body.

8. An intake air temperature adjusting system, characterized by comprising an intercooler as recited in any one of claims 1-7.

9. The intake air temperature regulation system of claim 8, further comprising an intake air temperature sensor for sensing engine intake air temperature, the intake air temperature sensor communicatively coupled to the drive device.

10. A vehicle characterized by comprising the intake air temperature adjustment system according to claim 8 or 9.