Heat exchanger
AssigneeHanon Systems
InventorsJi Hoon Choi, Won Taek Lee, Jun-Il Jang, Wi Sam Jo
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a heat exchanger provided in consideration of cooling/heating performance. An object of the present invention provides a heat exchanger that adopts a variable path in consideration of cooling/heating performance to solve a problem in which cooling performance and heating performance vary depending on the number of paths. More specifically, another object of the present invention is to provide a heat exchanger that is designed to change the number of paths in consideration of cooling/heating performance so as to be optimized for performance in a cooling mode and performance in a heating mode.
Claims15
A heat exchanger comprising:
- a plurality of tubes disposed in parallel with one another and configured to define a core region in which a refrigerant flows;
- a pair of header tanks provided at two opposite ends of the tubes;
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- a plurality of baffles provided in the header tanks,
- wherein a plurality of paths is sequentially disposed in the core region by the plurality of baffles, and a bypass valve, which selectively bypasses some of the plurality of paths, communicates with one side or two sides of the pair of header tanks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.