Coolant heater for a vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Doowon Climate Control Co., Ltd.
InventorsWang Hyun Joe, Jong Chul Kim, Ki Seung Bae
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Abstract
A coolant heater for a vehicle includes: a housing unit having an inlet part through which a coolant is introduced and an outlet part through which the coolant is discharged; a baffle assembly provided in an internal space of the housing unit and having a first flow path through which the coolant flows in a first direction and a second flow path through which the coolant, passing through the first flow path, flows in a second direction different from the first direction; a first heater part provided in the first flow path; and a second heater part provided in the second flow path. The coolant heater makes it possible to obtain an advantageous effect of improving a fast-acting heating performance and heating efficiency.
Claims19
A coolant heater for a vehicle, the coolant heater comprising:
- a housing unit having an inlet part through which a coolant is introduced and an outlet part through which the coolant is discharged;
- a baffle assembly provided in an internal space of the housing unit and having a first flow path through which the coolant flows in a first direction and a second flow path through which the coolant, passing through the first flow path, flows in a second direction different from the first direction;
- a first heater part provided in the first flow path;
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- a second heater part provided in the second flow path,
- wherein the baffle assembly comprises:
- a baffle plate configured to divide the internal space of the housing unit into a first space which communicates with the inlet part and a second space which communicates with the outlet part;
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- a baffle shell connected to the baffle plate and configured to divide the first space into the first flow path and the second flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.