Heat exchanger including an air flow control valve
AssigneeValeo Systemes Thermiques
InventorsGuillaume Bourgoin, Laurent Odillard, Georges De Pelsemaeker, Carlos Martins, Bertrand Gessier, Stéphanie Moroz
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Abstract
A heat exchanger for the air supply circuit of a motor vehicle engine includes a heat exchange core and at least one header tank. The heat exchanger also includes an air flow rate control valve arranged in the header tank of the exchanger, and the control valve is a valve that includes a body with three openings and a moving rotary member inside the body so as to control the circulation of air through the heat exchange core and/or through a duct bypassing the heat exchange core according to a law defined as a function of the angular position of the rotary member in the body.
Claims13
A heat exchanger (10;
- 10′) for an air supply circuit of a motor vehicle engine, said heat exchanger (10;
- 10′) comprising a heat exchange core (100) and at least one header tank (210;
- 210′), said heat exchanger (10;
- 10′) includes an air flow rate control valve (300) arranged in said at least one header tank (210;
- 210′) of said heat exchanger (10;
- 10′), said air flow rate control valve (300) is a valve comprising a body (310) with a plurality of openings (311, 313) and a moving rotary member (320) configured to rotate inside said body (310) so as to control the circulation of air through said heat exchange core (100) and/or through a duct (13;
- 13′) bypassing said heat exchange core (100), wherein said air flow rate control valve is configured to control the circulation of the air as a function of the angular position of said rotary member (320) in said body (310), wherein said body (310) is formed as an integral part of said at least one header tank (210, 210′).
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