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US 6,854,286 B2Granted
Air-conditioner for a motor vehicle
AssigneeBehr GmbH & Co.
InventorsCathy Bureau, Roland Burk, Gottfried Duerr, Guenther Feuerecker, Kurt Molt, Gerald von Rappard, Wolfgang Seewald, Brigitte Taxis-Reischl, Marcus Weinbrenner
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Abstract
The invention relates to an air-conditioner having a heat exchanger, such as an evaporator, for example, with a reservoir for a cold storage medium.
Claims17
A heat exchanger suitable for use as an evaporator, comprising:
- a pair of manifold sections, with a first manifold section having an inlet and a second manifold section having an outlet;
- a plurality of refrigerant tubes having refrigerant channels provided therein and communicating at least between the manifold sections;
- at least one reservoir for a cold storage medium, wherein at least some of the refrigerant tubes are thermally connected to the cold storage medium reservoir;
- and
- a fin;
- wherein the reservoir is connected on one lateral face to the refrigerant tube and on the other of its lateral faces to the fin.
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A heat exchanger suitable for use as an evaporator, comprising:
- a pair of manifold sections, with a first manifold section having an inlet and a second manifold section having an outlet;
- a plurality of refrigerant tubes having refrigerant channels provided therein and communicating at least between the manifold sections;
- at least one reservoir for a cold storage medium, wherein at least some of the refrigerant tubes are thermally connected to the cold storage medium reservoir;
- and
- a fin;
- wherein the refrigerant tube is connected at one lateral face to a reservoir and on the other of its lateral faces to the fin.
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A heat exchanger suitable for use as an evaporator, comprising:
- a pair of manifold sections, with a first manifold section having an inlet and a second manifold section having an outlet;
- a plurality of refrigerant tubes having refrigerant channels provided therein and communicating at least between the manifold sections;
- at least one reservoir for a cold storage medium, wherein at least some of the refrigerant tubes are thermally connected to the cold storage medium reservoir;
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- a fin;
- wherein the components of the heat exchanger, in a direction transverse to the direction of the air flow through the heat exchanger, have an arrangement order comprising:
- refrigerant tube, reservoir, fin, refrigerant tube, reservoir, fin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.