Evaporator with improved heat-exchanger capacity
AssigneeValeo Climatisation
InventorFrederic Bousquet
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Abstract
An evaporator consisting of stacked pockets wherein the refrigerating fluid is injected into an upstream connecting duct formed by a sub-assembly of the pockets by a longitudinal tubing which passes through an end face of the evaporator, distant from the upstream connecting duct, and at least another connecting duct formed by other pockets. According to the invention, the tubing is offset with respect to the centers of the openings through which the pockets forming the other connecting duct communicate between them. This results in an improvement in the heat exchange efficiency. The invention is applicable to the air conditioning of the passenger space of automobile vehicles.
Claims17
A heat-exchanger for the exchange of heat between a first and a second fluid, comprising a stack of pockets which are mutually aligned in a longitudinal direction, and which form two collector casings which are mutually juxtaposed in a lateral direction, the pockets each being formed, through their alignment, in the longitudinal direction, by input and output chambers which are respectively part of different pockets, the collector casings collectively being sub-divided into at least three connection conduits, the conduits belonging to the same collector casing being disposed one after the other in the longitudinal direction and not connected directly with each other, in each connection conduit the input or output chambers are mutually connected via openings in the walls of the pockets, the pockets defining a course for the first fluid between an upstream connection conduit adjacent to a first longitudinal end of the stack and a downstream connection conduit adjacent to the second longitudinal end of the stack, passing alternately via U-shaped courses, each of which connect the input and output chambers of one same pocket from a connection conduit which is part of one of the collector casings to a connection conduit which is part of the other collector casing, the upstream and downstream connection conduits being connected to an input and an output passage provided in one of the longitudinal ends, one directly and the other via tubing across the openings of the connection conduit which are located between this same end and the other connection conduit, wherein the tubing is eccentrically located in relation to the openings on the downstream side of the second fluid.
A heat exchanger for an air-conditioning device for an interior compartment of a motor vehicle comprising:
- a collector casing formed by a plurality of mutually connected and aligned small pockets;
- the collector casing defines an opening therein and is sub-divided into at least two connection conduits that are partitioned from one another;
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- a fluid input tubing inserted in an off-centered position in the opening passing through at least one of the connection conduits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.