Heat exchanger

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10670348-B2
Application number	US-201815898540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2018
Priority date	Aug 27, 2014
Publication date	Jun 2, 2020
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020

Abstract

A plate heat exchanger is provided in the present application, which includes multiple first plates and multiple second plates which are alternately stacked together, first flow passages and second flow passages spaced from each other are formed between the first plates and the second plates, a first passage is formed by first orifices, a second passage is formed by second orifices, and the first passage and the second passage are in communication with each other via the first flow passages or the second flow passages to form a first fluid passage. At least one damping structure is provided in the first fluid passage, and at least a part of the first fluid passage is in communication with a first pipe or a second pipe via the damping structure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heat exchanger, comprising a first pipe, a second pipe, a third pipe, a fourth pipe and a heat exchanger core,
wherein the heat exchanger core comprises a plurality of first plates and a plurality of second plates which are alternately stacked together, the first plates and the second plates cooperate with each other to form a plurality of first flow passages and a plurality of second flow passages, the plurality of first flow passages and the plurality of second flow passages are spaced from each other;
each of the first plates comprises a first orifice, a second orifice, a third orifice and a fourth orifice, and each of the second plates comprises a first orifice, a second orifice, a third orifice and a fourth orifice;
the first orifices of the first plates and the first orifices of the second plates are in communication with each other to form a first passage, the second orifices of the first plates and the second orifices of the second plates are in communication with each other to form a second passage, the third orifices of the first plates and the third orifices of the second plates are in communication with each other to form a third passage, the fourth orifices of the first plates and the fourth orifices of the second plates are in communication with each other to form a fourth passage, and the first passage and the second passage are in communication with each other via the plurality of first flow passages or the plurality of second flow passages to form a first fluid passage;
the first passage is in communication with the first pipe, and the second passage is in communication with the second pipe, and the third passage is in communication with the third pipe, and the fourth passage is in communication with the fourth pipe; and
at least one damping structure is provided in the first fluid passage, and at least a part of the first fluid passage is in communication with the first pipe or the second pipe via the damping structure, and
an equivalent inner diameter of the damping structure is smaller than an equivalent inner diameter of each of the first orifices of the first plates and each of the first orifices of the second plates or an equivalent inner diameter of each of the second orifices of the first plates and each of the second orifices of the second plates, or, a flow area of the damping structure is smaller than a flow area of each of the first orifices of the first plates and the first orifices of the second plates or a flow area of each of the second orifices of the first plates and each of the second orifices of the second plates,
wherein the heat exchanger core further comprises a first side plate at an outer side of the heat exchanger core, one side of the first side plate is fixed to the first plate or the second plate, another side of the first side plate is fixedly provided with a mounting plate, the first side plate is provided with a first communicating hole in communication with the first passage, the mounting plate is provided with a first connecting hole in communication with the first communicating hole, the damping structure comprises the first communicating hole, and an equivalent inner diameter of the first communicating hole is smaller than an equivalent inner diameter of the first communicating hole and is also smaller than an inner diameter of each of the first orifices of the first plates and each of the first orifices of the second plates.

2. The heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein the first pipe is fixed to the mounting plate by welding, one end of the first pipe has at least a part extending into the first connecting hole, and a length of the part extending into the first connecting hole is less than or equal to a length of the first connecting hole, the equivalent inner diameter of the first communicating hole is smaller than an equivalent inner diameter of a main body portion of the first pipe, and the equivalent inner diameter of the first communicating hole ranges from 1.5 mm to 5.5 mm.

3. The heat exchanger according to claim 2 , wherein the shape of the first communicating hole is one of circular shape, oval shape, square shape and triangular shape or a combination of at least two of a part of a circular shape, a part of an oval shape, a part of a square shape and a part of a triangular shape, or the first communicating hole comprises a plurality of small holes, and a sum of areas of the plurality of small holes is less than an area of the main body portion of the first pipe.

4. The heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein in a stacking direction of the first plates and the second plates, the first pipe and the second pipe are respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the heat exchanger, and a length L of a heat exchanging area of the heat exchanger and a thickness D of the heat exchanger satisfy a relationship of 1≤L/D≤5.

Assignees

• Zhejiang Sanhua Automotive Components Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lv Zhou
• Zou Jiang
• Yin Fangfang
• Cui Kai
• Huang Linjie

Classifications

• F28F9/026 Primary

  with static flow control means, e.g. with means for uniformly distributing heat exchange media into conduits · CPC title

• F28F9/0273

  with multiple holes · CPC title

• F28D9/0093 Primary

  Multi-circuit heat-exchangers, e.g. integrating different heat exchange sections in the same unit or heat-exchangers for more than two fluids · CPC title

• F28D9/005

  the plates having openings therein for both heat-exchange media · CPC title