Air conditioner for a vehicle
AssigneeBehr GmbH & Co.
InventorRoland Burk
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Abstract
An air conditioner arrangement for a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, having a condenser designed as a block of tubes and ribs with lateral collecting tubes on both sides. One of the collecting tubes forms a structural unit with a collector, which contains a dryer and has a cage-shaped sleeve in which dryer granulate is contained in a bag.
Claims9
Air conditioner arrangement for a vehicle with a condenser having a block of tubes between which are arranged ribs, and having collecting tubes, one of said collecting tubes being located on each side of said block, the tubes being arranged orthogonally with respect to the collecting tubes, comprising:
- a collector parallel to and coupled to one of the collecting tubes to form a structural unit therewith;
- a dryer for drying refrigerant and which is within the collector, the dryer having a cage-shaped sleeve having a bag contained therein, said bag containing a dryer granulate and being permeable to the refrigerant;
- wherein said one collecting tube of the condenser and the collector form a tube-shaped structural element having two ducts extending in parallel to one another, of which one duct is used as the collecting tube for the condenser and the other is used as the collector for the dryer, said two ducts being connected with one another by at least one opening in a wall of said two ducts.
Air conditioner arrangement for a vehicle with a condenser having a block of tubes between which are arranged ribs, and having collecting tubes, one of the collecting tubes being located on each side of said block, the tubes being arranged orthogonally with respect to the collecting tubes, comprising:
- a collector parallel to and coupled to one of the collecting tubes to form a structural unit therewith;
- a dryer for drying refrigerant and which is within the collector, the dryer having a cage-shaped sleeve having a bag contained therein, said bag containing a dryer granulate and being permeable to the refrigerant;
- wherein the collector has an upper end with a removable cover which closes an opening of the collector that has a cross section greater than the cross section of the cage-shaped sleeve, such that the dryer can be inserted and removed from the collector;
- wherein the cover is a screw cover;
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- wherein the cover contains at least one of a pressure sensor and a pressure switch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.