Heat exchanger for a vehicle, and an air-conditioning unit, and associated method
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorsWillibald Pfaller, Sascha Rös
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Abstract
A heat exchanger, preferably for a vehicle, including an applicative stratification, wherein the applicative stratification includes at least two stratification strands, wherein the applicative stratification is configured in such a manner that when incoming air into the heat exchanger is supplied in the direction of the applicative stratification, the incoming air is spread out by means of the applicative stratification in the respective stratification strand into an associated outgoing air portion. Furthermore, an exemplary embodiment may include an air-conditioning unit and an associated method.
Claims12
A heat exchanger, comprising:
- an applicative stratification, wherein the applicative stratification comprises at least two stratification strands, wherein the applicative stratification is configured in such a manner that when incoming air into the heat exchanger is supplied in the direction of the applicative stratification, the incoming air is spread out by means of the applicative stratification in the respective stratification strand into an associated outgoing air portion in a plurality of outgoing air portions, and wherein the applicative stratification is further configured in such a manner that each outgoing air portion in the plurality of outgoing air portions is at least one of:
- provided directly next to one another in the heat exchanger, or separated from one another in the heat exchanger only by a free space.
A method for spreading out incoming air in a heat exchanger, comprising the following steps:
- supplying incoming air into an applicative stratification,
- spreading out the incoming air into at least two portions by means of stratification strands of the applicative stratification, and
- conducting outgoing air portions out of the stratification strands, so that the outgoing air portions form an outgoing air stratification after the applicative stratification, wherein the outgoing air portions are at least one of:
- provided directly next to one another in the heat exchanger, or separated from one another in the heat exchanger only by a free space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.