Automobile condenser having enhanced integration
AssigneeValeo Systems Thermiques
InventorsPhilippe Jouanny, Carlos Martins, Anne-Sylvie Magnier-Cathenod
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Abstract
The invention relates to a condenser (10, 20) to be used in an air-conditioning circuit of an automobile, including punched plates (20) stacked in a longitudinal direction and defining first blades for the circulation of a first fluid as well as second blades for the circulation of a second fluid, said second blades being interleaved with the first blades, said condenser enabling the alternating circulation of the first fluid. According to the invention, said condenser includes inlet tubing (28) for the first fluid and outlet tubing (30) for the first fluid provided on a single first end surface (24) of said stack.
Claims16
A condenser (10, 20) to be used in an air conditioning circuit of an automobile, the condenser comprising:
- punched plates (20) stacked in a longitudinal direction and defining first blades intended for the circulation of a first fluid as well as second blades intended for the circulation of a second fluid, the second blades being interleaved with the first blades,
- a first heat exchange block (12) and a second heat exchange block (14) formed by the plates;
- a first separation plate (16) and a second separation plate (18) disposed between the first heat exchange block (12) and the second heat exchange block (14)
- two first collectors (40, 42) in the second heat exchange block (14), formed by alignment in the longitudinal direction and the placing in fluid communication of inlet and outlet orifices (39) belonging respectively to the blades intended for the first fluid,
- a first (40) of the first collectors, being an inlet collector for the first fluid, comprising at least two connection lines (52, 54, 56, 58),
- the other (42) of the first collectors, being an outlet collector for the first fluid, comprising at least two other connection lines (60, 62, 64),
- the punched plates (20) of the first heat exchange block (12) being maintained between the first separation plate (16) and a first end plate (24) longitudinally opposite the first sepration plate (16);
- the first end plate (24) carries a first coupling flange (28) for an inlet of refrigerant fluid for condensation and a second coupling flange (30) for an outlet of condensed refrigerant fluid;
- a first inlet pipe stub (32), intended for the first fluid, discharging into a connection line, referred to as upstream (52), of the connection lines of the inlet collector for the first fluid,
- a first outlet pipe stub (34), intended for the first fluid, discharging into a connection line, referred to as downstream (64), of the connection lines of the outlet collector for the first fluid,
- the connection lines of the inlet collector and the outlet collector for the first fluid being arranged to permit the alternating circulation of the first fluid from the inlet collector (40) towards the outlet collector (42), from the upstream connection line (52) towards the downstream connection line (64), and
- an outlet line (68) placing the downstream connection line (64) in communication with the first outlet pipe stub (34) in such a way that the first inlet pipe stub (32) and the first outlet pipe stub (34) are provided on the same first end plate (24) of the stacked punch plates and aligned in the same longitudinal plane and the first coupling flange (28) and the second coupling flange (30) are provided on the same first end plate (24) and aligned in the same longitudinal plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.