Heat exchanger for cooling electrical device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11439040-B2
Application number	US-201816617732-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2018
Priority date	May 31, 2017
Publication date	Sep 6, 2022
Grant date	Sep 6, 2022

Abstract

The present invention relates to a heat exchanger for cooling an electrical device, and more specifically, to a heat exchanger for cooling an electrical device, in which the tube-type cooling path parts may be coupled in multi-stages, the assembling of the electrical device and the cooling path part during the multi-stage coupling is easy, and cooling of both surfaces of the electrical device is possible through tight coupling between the electrical device and the cooling path part.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A heat exchanger for cooling an electrical device, the heat exchanger comprising:
cooling assemblies each including a cooling path part including a cooling path in which a cooling fluid flows, and connection plates into which opposite ends of the cooling path part in a length direction are inserted, respectively, and coupled to the cooling path part while in contact with opposite ends of the cooling path part in a height direction;
an inflow part connected to one of uppermost connection plates or lowermost connection plates of multiple cooling assemblies stacked in the height direction to allow the cooling fluid to flow in, and an outflow part connected to one of a remaining connection plate to allow the cooling fluid to flow out; and
a connection block connected between the connection plates and forming a path in a stacking direction;
wherein the opposite ends of the cooling path part in the length direction are open, and the cooling path part further includes cut parts formed by cutting inner sides of the opposite ends of the cooling path part in the length direction, and fixing parts formed at opposite ends of the cut part in a width direction, and
the connection plate includes an upper plate coupled to the cooling path part to overlap with a predetermined region of an upper surface of each of the opposite ends of the cooling path part in the length direction, a lower plate coupled to the cooling path part so as to overlap with a predetermined region of a lower surface of each of the opposite ends of the cooling path part in the length direction, and a middle plate connecting the upper plate and the lower plate to each other in the height direction.

2. The heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein at least two or more cooling assemblies are stacked and at least one electrical device is inserted between the cooling path parts.

3. The heat exchanger of claim 2 , wherein an interval between adjacent cooling path parts varies depending on a height of the electrical device inserted between the cooling path parts.

4. The heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the connection plate has an upper plate through-hole and a lower plate through-hole formed to penetrate through the upper plate and the lower plate, respectively, at a position corresponding to a position of the cut part, the upper plate and the lower plate being positioned to be connected to one of the inflow and outflow part and the connection block.

5. The heat exchanger of claim 4 , wherein the connection block includes an upper connection block which is in contact with a lower surface of the lower plate and has a communicating hole communicating with the lower plate through-hole, a lower connection block which is in contact with an upper surface of the upper plate, is coupled to the upper connection block, and has a communicating hole communicating with the upper plate through-hole, and a sealing member disposed in a region in which the upper connection block and the lower connection block are coupled to each other to prevent a leakage of a cooling fluid.

6. The heat exchanger of claim 5 , wherein the sealing member is one or more selected from a rubber gasket and a liquid gasket.

7. The heat exchanger of claim 5 , wherein the connection block includes a first through-hole insertion part protruding upward at an edge of an upper side of the communicating hole of the upper connection block and inserted into the lower plate through-hole, and a second through-hole insertion part protruding downward at an edge of a lower side of the communicating hole of the lower connection block and inserted into the upper plate through-hole.

8. The heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein a partition wall extending in the length direction in the cooling path is formed in the cooling path part.

9. The heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the connection plate includes an insertion limiting part formed in at least one of the upper plate or the lower plate to protrude inward in the height direction.

10. The heat exchanger of claim 1 , wherein the path for a heat exchange medium varies depending on disposition of the inflow and outflow part and the connection block.

11. The heat exchanger of claim 10 , wherein at least one connection block is disposed between the connection plates of the cooling assemblies stacked in multi-stages.

12. The heat exchanger of claim 10 , further comprising a support block allowing a predetermined interval between the cooling path parts to be maintained.

13. The heat exchanger of claim 12 , wherein heights of the connection block and the support block are the same as a height of the electrical device.

14. The heat exchanger of claim 8 , wherein a thickness of a fixing part of the cooling path part in a width direction is larger than a thickness of the partition wall.

Assignees

• Hanon Systems

Inventors

• Jo Wi Sam
• Song Jun Young
• Lee Sun Mi
• Lim Hong-Young

Classifications

• H05K7/20254

  Cold plates transferring heat from heat source to coolant · CPC title

• H05K7/20927 Primary

  Liquid coolant without phase change · CPC title

• H05K7/20272 Primary

  Accessories for moving fluid, for expanding fluid, for connecting fluid conduits, for distributing fluid, for removing gas or for preventing leakage, e.g. pumps, tanks or manifolds · CPC title

• H05K7/20

  Modifications to facilitate cooling, ventilating, or heating · CPC title