US 6,199,622 B1Granted

Connecting structure for connecting radiator and condenser

AssigneeCalsonic Kansei Corporation

InventorsKatsuji Mashio, Fumihiro Inoue, Yukinobu Take, Hiroshi Koizumi, Katsumi Nakamura, Hironori Muramoto

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Abstract

A connecting structure for connecting a radiator having a reinforcement member and a condenser having a bracket is provided. The structure includes a connecting member having a spacer portion and a holding portion integrally formed on opposite sides of a notch. The spacer portion is fittingly inserted into the reinforcement member, and a folded portion of the reinforcement member and the condenser bracket are inserted into the notch. A bolt is inserted through the reinforcement member, the spacer portion, the bracket and the holding portion and a nut is screwed onto a tip of the bolt for clamping the radiator and the condenser together.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A connecting structure for connecting a radiator and a condenser, comprising:

a bracket fixed to a tank of the condenser;
a reinforcement member having a U-shaped cross section comprising a base portion disposed on a side of a core of the radiator and two generally parallel leg members extending outwardly from the base portion;
a connecting member comprising:
a spacer portion to be inserted into the reinforcement member;
a holding portion being integrally formed with said spacer portion;
and
a notch being formed between said spacer portion and said holding portion,
wherein one of the leg members of said reinforcement member and said bracket are inserted into said notch;
and
a clamping member for clamping said reinforcement member, said spacer portion, said bracket and said holding portion together, thereby connecting the radiator and the condenser;
wherein a locking pawl is formed in said connecting member, and said locking pawl being adapted to be locked in a locking hole formed in said reinforcement member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/362,962Filed 30 Jul 1999
Priority: JP 10-21508930 Jul 1998
Granted: 13 Mar 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

F28F 9/002
Casings in the form of plate-like arrangements; Frames enclosing a heat exchange core: with fastening means for other structures
B60K 11/04
With liquid cooling: arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds
F28D 1/0435
With units having particular arrangement relative to the large body of fluid, e.g. with interleaved units or with adjacent heat exchange units…
F28D 2021/0084
For vehicles: condensers