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US 7,000,690 B2Granted
Heat exchanger for a motor vehicle
AssigneeBehr GmbH & Co.
InventorsHolger Auchter, Thomas Fricker, Bruno Losch
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Abstract
A heat exchanger, particularly a flat-tube heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, which includes two coolant boxes and a tube block with an inlet tube attached to one of the boxes and an outlet tube attached to another of the boxes, and wherein each tube extends at least in part along one longitudinal side of the associated box and has at least one radial opening which communicates with a side opening formed in the box.
Claims10
A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle comprising:
- a first coolant box that includes an inlet chamber with at least one side opening and an outlet chamber with at least one side opening;
- a second coolant box;
- a tube block disposed between the first and second coolant boxes and attached to both coolant boxes;
- an inlet tube attached to at least part of a longitudinal side of the first coolant box, the inlet tube further including at least one radial opening that is joined in fluid communication with a side opening of the inlet chamber, wherein the radial opening and its corresponding side opening each comprises a slit of constant predetermined width that extends in the longitudinal direction of the tube;
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- an outlet tube attached to at least part of longitudinal side of the first coolant box, the outlet tube further including at least one radial opening that is joined in fluid communication with a side opening of the outlet chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.