EP3198207B1 - Échangeur de chaleur - Google Patents

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EP3198207B1
EP3198207B1 EP15760456.2A EP15760456A EP3198207B1 EP 3198207 B1 EP3198207 B1 EP 3198207B1 EP 15760456 A EP15760456 A EP 15760456A EP 3198207 B1 EP3198207 B1 EP 3198207B1
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heat transfer
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Harald Bronner
Markus Hübsch
Peter Griessheimer
Jens Ruckwied
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28D—HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
    • F28D7/00—Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary tubular conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall
    • F28D7/0066—Multi-circuit heat-exchangers, e.g. integrating different heat exchange sections in the same unit or heat-exchangers for more than two fluids
    • 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
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F28—HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL
    • F28F—DETAILS OF HEAT-EXCHANGE AND HEAT-TRANSFER APPARATUS, OF GENERAL APPLICATION
    • F28F2265/00—Safety or protection arrangements; Arrangements for preventing malfunction
    • F28F2265/26—Safety or protection arrangements; Arrangements for preventing malfunction for allowing differential expansion between elements

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  • the present invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular a charge air cooler or a coolant radiator, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a heat exchanger is known from EP 0 102 715 .
  • the invention also relates to a side part for such a heat exchanger.
  • Heat exchangers usually consist of a multiplicity of pipes, in particular flat pipes with or without turbulence inserts, two floors and usually two side parts to which collecting tanks are arranged to complete a collector.
  • the side parts used for this purpose are usually one-piece and usually made by a stamping or embossing process. To reduce thermally induced stresses these side parts are also either provided with local expansion sections or divided mechanically into at least two parts in a subsequent manufacturing step joining.
  • a heat exchanger for transferring heat between a gaseous first fluid and a liquid second fluid having a plurality of tubes, which pass through a first fluid path for guiding the first fluids extend.
  • the tubes are coupled in a heat-transmitting manner to cooling fins arranged in the first fluid path and through which the first fluid can flow, and form a second fluid path for guiding the second fluid on the inside.
  • the radiator block formed by the tubes and corresponding bottoms each have a side part for lateral delimitation of the first fluid path on two outer sides facing away from one another in the stacking direction.
  • An increased stability of the radiator block should result from the fact that the two side parts are firmly connected to each other via at least one tie rod, which is a separate component with respect to the cooling fins and the tubes and allows a tensile force transmission in the stacking direction.
  • One-piece side parts for example formed as a sheet metal stamping side parts are designed over the entire length with identical wall thickness, which may result in an unnecessarily high material usage in areas where high strength or bending stiffness is not required. This is the case in particular in a middle region, whereas in a longitudinal end region of the respective side parts an increased flexural rigidity is required.
  • a stiffening therefore has to be carried out either over the entire length or the stiffening is only carried out locally and thereby leads in the non-stiffened area to an increased material waste.
  • the present invention therefore deals with the problem of providing for a heat exchanger of the generic type an improved or at least one alternative embodiment, which is characterized in particular by a lighter weight and less material use in the region of the side parts.
  • the present invention is based on the general idea to form a lateral part of the lateral boundary of a radiator block of a heat exchanger with respect to its flexural rigidity of at least two segment parts with different cross-sectional shape, which meet the respective bending stiffness requirements required there.
  • the heat exchanger according to the invention which may be formed, for example, as a coolant radiator or as a charge air cooler, has in a classical manner two floors, each having passages for the longitudinal end receiving fluid-carrying pipes.
  • the floors are completed laterally by side parts, which are at least partially taken up with a longitudinal end region in an end-side passage of the respective soil.
  • the side parts can also be soldered or welded to the bottoms on the longitudinal end side and not be received in the passages.
  • the side part now has at least two separate segment parts with a different cross-sectional shape, wherein the different cross-sectional shape at the same time also causes a different bending stiffness.
  • the two end-side segment parts can be made the same and the central part has a different shape. This makes it possible to form the longitudinal end regions of the respective side part (longitudinal end segments) more rigid than a center section (middle part) arranged, for example, between the two longitudinal end regions, so that the higher bending stiffness required in the longitudinal end region is easily met, but material and thus also weight are saved in the middle section can.
  • the heat exchanger according to the invention and a side part according to the invention it is thus possible, with minimal use of material, a sufficiently high rigidity, in particular bending stiffness, in the area near the ground, ie in the area of the soil, to achieve.
  • the longitudinal end region of the side part is provided in the region near the bottom with a cross section with a higher bending stiffness, while the center section arranged therebetween has a bending-softer cross-section and / or a smaller material thickness.
  • the middle section can, of course, also be completely dispensed with, so that in this case a zero cross-section would be present.
  • the middle section is designed as a sheet metal strip.
  • the longitudinal end portions of the respective side part may for example have a U-shaped, a U-shaped, an L-shaped, a W-shaped or a one or more chambers having tubular cross-section.
  • the longitudinal end sections thus formed have a significantly higher flexural rigidity than, for example, the middle section formed as a sheet-metal strip.
  • Such shaped longitudinal end portions can thus easily ablate the forces occurring in this area, whereas the middle portion can not only save material, but also also be easily formed, since in this area no high rigidity or strength is required.
  • a longitudinal end portion and the middle portion are materially connected to each other, for example, welded together, glued or soldered.
  • a gap is provided between the middle section and a longitudinal section so that they do not touch one another. In this case, the gap would provide for the compensation of temperature-induced strains.
  • the present invention is further based on the general idea to form a side part for a heat exchanger described above from at least two segment parts with different cross-sectional shape and bending stiffness, whereby the different bending stiffness requirements in a central region and in the respective longitudinal end regions of the side part can be optimally taken into account.
  • the cross-sectional shape used in the longitudinal end region in this case has a high flexural rigidity, whereas the middle section has a lower weight due to the flexurally softer design and / or the smaller material thickness and at the same time helps conserve resources.
  • the thus designed side part is lighter overall, which is particularly in use in a heat exchanger of a motor vehicle of great advantage, but satisfies all Biegesteiftechniksan Kunststoffen. Another decisive advantage is lower costs with variation of the length of the side part, since only the middle section has to be changed.
  • a heat exchanger 1 which may be formed, for example, as intercooler, two floors 2, the respective passages 3 for longitudinal end receiving fluid-carrying pipes 4, for example, flat tubes possess.
  • the bottoms 2 are connected to manifolds 5 to form a collector, for example, for coolant.
  • the two side parts 6 are accommodated with a respective longitudinal end region 7 at least partially in an end-side passage 8 of the associated bottom 2, wherein the end-side passage 8 is formed identical to the provided for the tubes 4 passages 3.
  • the side parts 6 can be completely or partially pushed through the passages 8, but they do not have to. Alternatively, they can of course also be connected to the bottoms 2 in other ways, for example by soldering, welding, etc.
  • the invention proposes that the side part 6 has at least two different segment parts 9, 10 with different cross-sectional shape and thus different bending stiffness.
  • side part 6 has this a total of three segment parts 9, 10, namely two identical longitudinal end segments 13 and an intermediate middle section 14 arranged therebetween.
  • the middle section 14 has a lower bending stiffness and / or a smaller material thickness than the longitudinal end segments 13 and therefore can be particularly material-saving and lightweight become.
  • the center section 14 can be designed, for example, as a sheet metal strip that is simple and inexpensive to produce, whereas the longitudinal end segments 13 have, for example, a W-shaped cross section (cf. Fig. 2 and 5 ), a U-shaped cross section (see. Fig. 3 ), a U-wedge-shaped cross section (see. Fig. 4 ) or a one or more chambers 15 having tubular cross-section may have (see 6 and 7 ). All shown longitudinal end segments 13 is common that they have a comparatively high bending moment due to their cross-sectional shape alone.
  • At least one longitudinal end segment 13 and the middle section 14 are materially bonded together, for example, welded or soldered together, or that between the center section 14 and a longitudinal end section 13, a gap 16 is provided so that they do not touch.
  • the individual segment parts 9, 10 can also be arranged both overlapping and butting. However, if the two segment parts 9, Do not touch 10 and the gap 16 between two segment parts 9, 10 is greater than 0.5 mm.
  • a blunt shock with gap 16 is in the side panels 6 according to the Fig. 2 to 7 whereas, according to the Fig. 8 the longitudinal end segment 13 has a first contour 11 and the center section 14 has a second contour 12 formed complementary thereto.
  • the longitudinal end segments 13 of the side part 6 are provided in the direction of the center section 14 with a curved or arrow-shaped shape (compare left and right illustration according to FIGS Fig. 8 ), whereby it can be ensured that each rib bow can be connected to the side part 6.
  • heat exchangers 1 with different tube lengths and identical longitudinal end segments 13 of the side parts 6 can be realized, which are only combined with differently long middle sections 14 depending on the tube length.
  • the complex parts of the side part 6, i. the longitudinal end segments 13 and the segment parts 10 are always implemented with the same tool cost and high quality.
  • the simple design of the center portion 14 of the material used can be minimized, in an extreme case even on the center portion 14, i. the segment part 9, can be dispensed with entirely. Due to the complex shaped longitudinal end segments 13, a high support of the tubes 4 in the ground-level region of the bottom 2 is still guaranteed.

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Claims (10)

  1. Échangeur de chaleur (1), en particulier refroidisseur d'air de suralimentation ou refroidisseur de liquide de refroidissement,
    - avec deux fonds (2), qui comportent chacun des traverses (3) destinées à loger, du côté de leur extrémité longitudinale, des tuyaux (4) transportant un fluide,
    - avec au moins une partie latérale (6), qui comporte au moins deux parties de segment (9, 10) ayant une forme de section transversale différente,
    caractérisé en ce que la partie latérale (6) est logée avec une zone d'extrémité longitudinale (7) au moins partiellement dans une traverse (8), côté extrémité, du fond (2) associé.
  2. Échangeur de chaleur selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que la partie latérale (6) comporte deux segments d'extrémité longitudinale (13) et une partie médiane (14) agencée entre.
  3. Échangeur de chaleur selon la revendication 2,
    caractérisé en ce que la partie médiane (14) a une plus petite épaisseur de matériau et/ou une plus petite résistance à la flexion que les segments d'extrémité longitudinale (13).
  4. Échangeur de chaleur selon la revendication 2 ou 3,
    caractérisé en ce que la partie médiane (14) est réalisée comme une bande de tôle.
  5. Échangeur de chaleur selon la revendication 2, 3 ou 4,
    caractérisé en ce que les segments d'extrémité longitudinale (13) ont une section transversale en forme de U, en forme de coin en U, en forme de L, en forme de W ou en forme de tube comportant une ou plusieurs chambres (15).
  6. Échangeur de chaleur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 5,
    caractérisé en ce qu'une fente (16) est prévue entre la partie médiane (14) et un segment d'extrémité longitudinale (13) de telle sorte que ceux-ci ne se touchent pas.
  7. Échangeur de chaleur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce qu'un segment d'extrémité longitudinale (13) et la partie médiane (14) sont assemblés au moins par endroits par une liaison de matière, en particulier sont brasés.
  8. Échangeur de chaleur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 6,
    caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un segment d'extrémité longitudinale (13) et la partie médiane (14) sont assemblés au moins en partie par concordance de forme.
  9. Échangeur de chaleur selon la revendication 8,
    caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un segment d'extrémité longitudinale (13) et la partie médiane (14) sont au moins en partie clipsés l'un à l'autre.
  10. Échangeur de chaleur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 7,
    caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un segment d'extrémité longitudinale (13) présente un premier contour (11) et la partie médiane (14) présente un deuxième contour (12) réalisé complémentaire du premier.
EP15760456.2A 2014-09-22 2015-09-09 Échangeur de chaleur Not-in-force EP3198207B1 (fr)

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PCT/EP2015/070601 WO2016045969A1 (fr) 2014-09-22 2015-09-09 Échangeur de chaleur

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