Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
  • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
  • F28F9/00—Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60H—ARRANGEMENTS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES
  • B60H1/00—Heating, cooling or ventilating [HVAC] devices
  • B60H1/00507—Details, e.g. mounting arrangements, desaeration devices
  • B60H1/00514—Details of air conditioning housings
  • B60H1/00528—Connections between housing parts
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60H—ARRANGEMENTS OF HEATING, COOLING, VENTILATING OR OTHER AIR-TREATING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PASSENGER OR GOODS SPACES OF VEHICLES
  • B60H1/00—Heating, cooling or ventilating [HVAC] devices
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
  • F25B39/00—Evaporators; Condensers
  • F25B39/04—Condensers
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
  • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
  • F28F9/00—Casings; Header boxes; Auxiliary supports for elements; Auxiliary members within casings
  • F28F9/001—Casings in the form of plate-like arrangements; Frames enclosing a heat exchange core
  • F28F9/002—Casings in the form of plate-like arrangements; Frames enclosing a heat exchange core with fastening means for other structures
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
  • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
  • F28F2275/00—Fastening; Joining
  • F28F2275/08—Fastening; Joining by clamping or clipping
  • F28F2275/085—Fastening; Joining by clamping or clipping with snap connection

Definitions

• the invention relates to a device for attaching an attachment adapter to a cooler.
• the invention has for its object to provide a device which can be attached to a radiator, in which there are deformable fins between coolant lines.
• This object is achieved according to the invention with a device for fastening an add-on part adapter to a cooler having fins deformable between coolant lines, with an adapter support piece having the add-on part adapter and with a counterpart, the adapter support part and the counterpart having a number of wedge-shaped projections which are to be pointed towards one another have and a locking arrangement for connecting the adapter carrier piece and the counterpart is formed on the adapter carrier piece and on the counterpart.
• the locking arrangement has at least one locking tongue and at least one tongue receptacle, a locking tongue being insertable into an associated tongue receptacle and a blocking part being formed on the tongue receptacle with which a latching lug formed on the locking tongue comes into engagement when inserting the locking tongue into the tongue holder.
• the tongue holder has an unlocking recess, through which a tool for releasing the engagement between a locking tongue and the associated blocking part can be carried out.
• the adapter carrier piece and the counterpart have a U-shaped shape, each with two edge-side edge sections and one each between the Have edge sections extending cross section, wherein the projections are arranged in pairs opposite one another on the edge sections and the cross sections of the adapter support piece and the counterpart.
• inner lugs are advantageously formed on the cross sections as projections with flat sides oriented parallel to the longitudinal direction of the respective cross section. In this way, the slats are displaced primarily in the longitudinal direction of the transverse sections, with the result that the forces required to produce the engagement are relatively low.
• the inner lugs it is expedient, in order to achieve a uniform engagement behavior, for the inner lugs to be designed with a wedge-shaped shape that is symmetrical with respect to a center line.
• outer lugs are advantageously formed on projections as projections with flat sides oriented parallel to the longitudinal direction of the respective section. In this way, the lamellae are displaced primarily in the longitudinal direction of the edge sections, with the result that the forces required to produce the engagement are also relatively low here.
• a number of outer lugs are each formed with an angled, wedge-shaped beveled end face, which, when the adapter carrier piece and counterpart are connected to one another, is opposite an assigned outer lug with a plane beveled end face. This creates a penetration of the outer lugs through the depth of the cooler and thus a secure hold of the adapter support piece and the counterpart on the cooler.
• the add-on part adapter has an assembled arrangement of the adapter support piece and the counterpart over a support side extending between the adapter support piece and the counterpart, and that the counterpart has at least two in an assembled arrangement of the adapter support piece and of the counterpart has a support web arranged on both sides of the attachment adapter, the side of which facing the receiving space lies in the plane of the support side of the attachment adapter.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a radiator mounting device for mounting on a radiator of a motor vehicle
• FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of an adapter carrier piece of the radiator fastening device according to FIG. 1,
• FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a counterpart of the radiator fastening device according to FIG. 1 and
• FIG. 4 shows in a sectional view the structure of a tongue holder of the counterpart according to FIG. 3.
• radiator fastening device 1 shows, in a perspective view as an exemplary embodiment, a radiator fastening device 1 according to the invention for fastening to a radiator of a motor vehicle (not shown in FIG. 1), which has a plurality of fins between essentially parallel coolant lines, which extend between adjacent coolant lines and are thin-walled and are relatively easily deformable.
• the radiator fastening device 1 has an adapter carrier piece 2 which has an attachment adapter 3.
• the attachment adapter 3 is formed, for example, with a connecting pin 4, which is used to connect an attachment not shown in FIG. 1 to the radiator fastening device 1 and ultimately to the radiator.
• the adapter carrier piece 2 is connected to a counterpart 5, for this purpose the radiator fastening device 1 has a locking arrangement 6 which, in the exemplary embodiment shown, has two locking tongues 7 and 7 formed on the adapter carrier piece 2 has two tongue receptacles 8 formed on the counterpart 5.
• the locking tongues 7 and the tongue receptacles 8 are located on both sides of the attachment adapter 3 in the respective edge region of the adapter support piece 2 or of the counterpart 5.
• the tongue receptacles 8 have unlocking recesses 9 on their sides facing away from the adapter carrier piece 2 in the assembled arrangement of the radiator fastening device 1, through which a tool for engaging with the locking tongues 7 and for releasing the connection between the adapter carrier piece 2 and the counterpart 5 is feasible.
• the projections comprise outer lugs 11 formed on the edge of the adapter carrier piece 2 with a flat, beveled end face 10 and on the edge side of the counterpart 5 with an angled, wedge-shaped beveled end face 12 formed on the edge.
• the flat beveled end faces 10 are oriented towards the attachment adapter 3.
• Fig. 1 it can be seen that in an assembled arrangement of the radiator fastening device 1, a portion of the flat beveled end faces 12 of the outer lugs 13 of the counterpart 5 are closely adjacent and substantially parallel to the flat beveled end faces 10 of the outer lugs 11 of the adapter support piece 2 and between the adapter support piece 2 and the counterpart 5, a receiving space 14 is formed for receiving the cooler.
• the depth of the receiving space 14 corresponds to the thickness of the radiator to which the radiator fastening device 1 is to be fastened.
• FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of the adapter carrier piece 2 of the radiator fastening device 1 according to FIG. 1. It can be seen from FIG. 2 that the adapter carrier piece 2 has a U-shaped shape with a cross section 15 and two edge sections 16 extending on the edge side and essentially at right angles to the cross section 15. A number of inner lugs 17 are formed on the cross section 15 as projections, which in the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 2 are arranged in two rows parallel to one another and to the longitudinal direction of the cross section 15.
• the inner lugs 17 are formed with two flat sides oriented parallel to the longitudinal direction of the transverse section 15 and with a wedge-shaped shape symmetrical to a center line oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the transverse section 15.
• the distance between the rows of inner lugs 17 is set up such that when the radiator fastening device 1 is attached to a radiator, the inner lugs 17 are positioned on both sides of a coolant line.
• the outer lugs 11 are each arranged on the outside of the edge sections 16, which is oriented at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the transverse section 15.
• the outer lugs 17 are formed with flat sides oriented parallel to the longitudinal direction of the respective edge section 16 and are at a distance which is set up such that the outer lugs 17 are also positioned on both sides of a coolant line when the radiator fastening device 1 is fastened to the radiator.
• FIG. 3 shows the counterpart 5 of the radiator fastening device 1 according to FIG. 1 in a perspective view. From FIG. 3 it can be seen that the counterpart 5 also has a U-shaped shape with a transverse section 19 and two on the edge side and essentially at right angles the cross section 19 extends edge sections 20 aul. In an assembled arrangement of the radiator fastening device 1, the cross sections 15, 19 and the edge sections 16, 20 of the adapter support piece 2 and of the counterpart 5 lie opposite one another.
• outer lugs 13 arranged on the edge sections 20 of the counterpart 5 are positioned corresponding to the outer lugs 11 of the adapter carrier piece 2.
• sections of the wedge-shaped bevelled end faces 12 of the outer lugs 13 of the counterpart 5 come into a closely adjacent arrangement to opposite, planed beveled end faces 10 of outer lugs 11 of the adapter carrier piece 2.
• the counterpart 5 has a support web 23 adjacent to each tongue receptacle 7, which have their free ends pointing in the direction of the outer lugs 13 and inner lugs 21.
• the side of the support web 23 facing the receiving space 14 in the assembled arrangement of the radiator fastening device 1 lie in the plane of the side of the attachment adapter 3 also facing the receiving space 14, so that a support for a cooler arranged in the receiving space 14 is created.
• FIG. 4 shows a sectional view of the structure of a tongue holder 8 of the counterpart 5 according to FIG. 3.
• the tongue holder 8 has a sliding web rising from the tongue insertion recess 22 to the unlocking recess 9 in the direction of the edge section 20 24, which is completed by a blocking web 25 as a blocking part.
• the latching lugs 18 When the locking tongues 7 are inserted into the tongue receptacle 8, the latching lugs 18 thus slide onto the sliding webs 24 until they engage behind the blocking webs 25 in a snap-in manner.
• the adapter carrier piece 2 and the counterpart 5 are firmly connected to one another.
• tools To release the connection, tools must be inserted through the unlocking recesses 9 in order to release the engagement of the locking noses 18 and the blocking webs 25.
• the long-term stable fastening of the radiator fastening device 1 to a radiator having deformable fins and extending between coolant lines is carried out as follows.
• the adapter support piece 2 and the counterpart 5 are placed on an edge side of the cooler, with the sides of the attachment part adapter 3 or the support webs 23 facing the receiving space 14 hung up and the locking tongues 7 inserted into the tongue receptacles 8.
• the adapter carrier piece 2 and the counterpart 5 are brought together by pressing the outer lugs 11, 13 and the inner lugs 17, 21 into the lamellae, which deform in the process.
• the sides of the adapter carrier piece 2 and the counterpart 5 to be facing one another rest on the respective outer sides of the cooler.
• the sides of the add-on part adapter 3 and the support webs 22 facing the receiving space 14 rest on the edge side of the cooler.
• the outer lugs 11, 13 and inner lugs 17, 21 are in long-term, stable, play-free engagement with the deformed fins of the cooler and, in addition to the connection created by the locking arrangement 6, ensure engagement with the fins of the cooler by virtue of their perpendicular alignment with one another.

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