Cold reserving heat exchanger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10670342-B2
Application number	US-201815896746-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2018
Priority date	Apr 10, 2017
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cold reserving heat exchanger, and more particularly; to a cold reserving heat exchanger capable of improving cooling comfortableness of a user and minimizing energy and a time consumed at the time of again performing cooling by storing a cold reserving material in a second-row tube among tubes disposed in three rows in a width direction and allowing a cooling fluid moving in a first-row tube and a third-row tube among the tubes to be movable between the first-row tube and the third-row tube to effectively store cold air of the cooling fluid and discharge the cold air at the time of stopping an engine to thus prevent a rapid rise in an internal temperature of a vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cold reserving heat exchanger comprising:
a plurality of tubes disposed in three rows in a width direction and including a first-row tube and a third-row tube in which a cooling fluid is circulated and a second-row tube in which a cold reserving material is stored;
an upper header tank and a lower header tank fixed to both ends of the tubes in a length direction, including a first space portion that is in communication with the first-row tube, a second space portion that is in communication with the second-row tube, and a third space portion that is in communication with the third-row tube, corresponding to three spaces separated in the width direction, and having a header and a tank coupled to each other;
a partition wall portion provided in each of the upper header tank and the lower header tank to separate a space and including two header-side partition wall portions surrounding the second-row tube and extended toward the tank and a tank-side partition wall portion extended from a predetermined point at which the header-side partition wall portions meet each other in the same direction and having the other end fixed to any one point of the tank; and
an inlet formed in the first space portion or the third space portion and having the cooling fluid introduced therethrough and an outlet formed in the first space portion or the third space portion and having the cooling fluid discharged therethrough.

2. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the header-side partition wall portions have one ends each fixed between a second-row tube insertion hole and a first-row tube insertion hole of the header and between the second-row tube insertion hole and a third-row tube insertion hole of the header.

3. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 2 , wherein the cold reserving heat exchanger is formed so that intervals between the first-row to third-row tube insertion holes and thicknesses of the header-side partition wall portions are the same as each other.

4. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the partition wall portion includes communication holes formed by hollowing predetermined regions on the tank-side partition wall portion so that the cooling fluid moves between the first space portion and the third space portion.

5. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 4 , wherein the communication holes are formed in at least any one place of the partition wall portion provided in the upper header tank or the lower header tank.

6. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 4 , wherein a plurality of communication holes are formed to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval in the length direction of the partition wall portion.

7. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the partition wall portion includes a plurality of header coupling protrusions formed at one end portions of the header-side partition wall portions, protruding toward the header, and spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval in the length direction.

8. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the upper header tank and the lower header tank include first seating grooves formed by concaving an inner side surface of the header so that end portions of the header-side partition wall portions are seated at predetermined positions.

9. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the upper header tank and the lower header tank include a second seating groove formed by concaving an inner side surface of the tank so that an end portion of the tank-side partition wall portion is seated at a predetermined position.

10. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the two header-side partition wall portions of the partition wall portion are bent at an end portion of the second-row tube, and are linearly extended toward any one point at which the tank-side partition wall portion is formed, while having a predetermined gradient.

11. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the two header-side partition wall portions of the partition wall portion are curved in a round, shape at an end portion of the second-row tube, and are linearly extended toward any one point at which the tank-side partition wall portion is formed.

12. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the two header-side partition wall portions of the partition wall portion are bent at an end portion of the second-row tube, and are extended, in a horizontal direction, toward any one point at which the tank-side partition wall portion is formed.

13. The cola reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , further comprising baffles disposed in the first space portion and the third space portion in order to adjust movement of the cooling fluid.

14. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the second-row tube is inserted into the header by a predetermined length, and
the two header-side partition wall portions are bent at an end portion of the second-row tube and meet one end of the tank-side partition wall portion having a predetermined length from the tank toward the header.

15. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein areas of the first space portion, the second space portion, and the third space portion are determined by a tube insertion length by which the second-row tube is inserted into the header, a length of the tank-side partition wall portion, and widths of the first-row tube and the third-row tube.

16. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein widths of the first-row tube and the third-row tube are larger than that of the second-row tube, and
the first-row tube and the third-row tube include one or more tube partition walls formed in the length direction, respectively.

17. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 16 , wherein the number of tube partition walls in the second-row tube is 4 or less.

18. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 16 , wherein each of a hydraulic diameter of the first-row tube and a hydraulic diameter of the third-row tube is smaller than that of the second-row tube.

19. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 16 , wherein catch of a thickness of an external wall of the first-row tube and a thickness of an external wall of the third-row tube is the same as or larger than a thickness of an external wall of the second-row tube.

20. The cold reserving heat exchanger of claim 16 , further comprising:
a first connecting portion connecting the first-row tube and the second-row tube disposed on the same line to each other; and
a second connecting portion connecting the second-row tube and the third-row tube disposed on the same line to each other.

Assignees

• Hanon Systems

Inventors

• Baek Seung Su
• Jeon Young-Ha
• Lee Sun Mi

Classifications

• F28F1/022

  with multiple channels · CPC title

• F28D20/02

  using latent heat · CPC title

• Y02E60/142

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02E60/145

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F28D1/0333

  the plates having integrated connecting members · CPC title