Accumulator and heat exchange device having accumulator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11454435-B2
Application number	US-201816771383-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 15, 2018
Priority date	Dec 18, 2017
Publication date	Sep 27, 2022
Grant date	Sep 27, 2022

Abstract

An accumulator, including a housing and a cover body, one end of the housing being open; the housing is internally provided with an accommodating cavity, the accommodating cavity being internally provided with a filter; a peripheral wall of the housing comprises a first thick wall part, the first thick wall part being provided with an inlet channel, and one end of the inlet channel communicating with the accommodating cavity, while the other end of the inlet channel communicates with the outside; one end of an outlet channel communicates with the accommodating cavity by means of the filter, while the other end of the outlet channel communicates with an outer portion of the housing. The accumulator may be directly welded and fixed to a heat exchange core without requiring a pipeline connection, the risk of external leakage being small, and the anti-seismic performance being high.

First claim

What we claim is:

1. An accumulator, comprising a housing, a filter being arranged in the housing, wherein, the housing comprises a first sub-housing and a second sub-housing, an accommodating cavity is provided in the housing, the first sub-housing and the second sub-housing are sealedly fixed to form the accommodating cavity, the filter is arranged in the accommodating cavity, the housing is provided with a first wall portion, the first wall portion is located in the second sub-housing, an inlet channel and an outlet channel are provided in the first wall portion, one end of the inlet channel is in fluid communication with the accommodating cavity, and another end of the inlet channel is in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, one end of the outlet channel is in fluid communication with the accommodating cavity through the filter, and another end of the outlet channel is in fluid communication with the exterior of the housing, and a port of the inlet channel in fluid communication with the exterior of the housing is arranged close to a port of the outlet channel in fluid communication with the exterior of the housing,
wherein, the accumulator is of a flat shape, the housing is further provided with a second wall portion, the second wall portion is located in the first sub-housing, a first adapter seat is arranged in the second wall portion, the first adapter seat is provided with a first external connecting port, the second wall portion is provided with an adapter channel, and the first external connecting port is in fluid communication with the adapter channel.

2. The accumulator according to claim 1 , wherein, the inlet channel comprises a first sub-channel and a second sub-channel, a part of one end of the first sub-channel located in an outer wall of the housing is functioned as an inlet of the accumulator, another end of the first sub-channel is in fluid communication with one end of the second sub-channel, another end of the second sub-channel is fluid in communication with the accommodating cavity, a support is arranged on one end of the outlet channel adjacent to the accommodating cavity, and the filter is fixedly installed with the outlet channel through the support.

3. The accumulator according to claim 2 , wherein, the housing is further provided with a second wall portion, the second wall portion is located in the first sub-housing, a first adapter seat is arranged in the second wall portion, the first adapter seat is provided with a first external connecting port, the second wall portion is provided with an adapter channel, and the first external connecting port is in fluid communication with the adapter channel.

4. A heat exchange device, comprising a heat exchange core body and the accumulator according to claim 2 , wherein, the heat exchange core body comprises a plurality of mutually stacked plates, a plurality of channels are formed between the mutually stacked plates, wherein a part of the plurality of channels are formed as a first fluid channel, another part of the plurality of channels are formed as a second fluid channel, a partition plate is further arranged in the heat exchange core body, the first fluid channel is divided into a first section and a second section by the partition plate, the first section comprises a first fluid collecting channel and a second fluid collecting channel, the second section comprises a third fluid collecting channel and a fourth fluid collecting channel, the second fluid collecting channel is in fluid communication with the inlet channel, and the outlet channel is in fluid communication with the third fluid collecting channel through a pipeline.

5. The accumulator according to claim 1 , wherein, the housing is provided with a first matching portion, a second matching portion and a recess, wherein the first matching portion is located in the first sub-housing, the second matching portion is located in the second sub-housing, the first matching portion, the second matching portion and the recess are located on a same side of the housing, and the recess is located between the first matching portion and the second matching portion, one end of the adapter channel is located in the first matching portion, and one end of the inlet channel and one end of the outlet channel are located in the second matching portion.

6. A heat exchange device, comprising a heat exchange core body and the accumulator according to claim 1 , wherein, the heat exchange core body comprises a plurality of mutually stacked plates, a plurality of channels are formed between the mutually stacked plates, wherein a part of the plurality of channels are formed as a first fluid channel, another part of the plurality of channels are formed as a second fluid channel, a partition plate is further arranged in the heat exchange core body, the first fluid channel is divided into a first section and a second section by the partition plate, the first section comprises a first fluid collecting channel and a second fluid collecting channel, the second section comprises a third fluid collecting channel and a fourth fluid collecting channel, the second fluid collecting channel is in fluid communication with the inlet channel, and the outlet channel is in fluid communication with the third fluid collecting channel through a pipeline.

7. The heat exchange device according to claim 6 , wherein a drowning pipe is further arranged in the heat exchange device, a part of the drowning pipe passes through the second fluid collecting channel and the partition plate, and at least a part of the drowning pipe extends into the third fluid collecting channel, one port of the drowning pipe is located in the third fluid collecting channel, another end of the drowning pipe is in fluid communication with the outlet channel, an outer wall of the drowning pipe is sealedly fixed to the partition plate, and an outer diameter of the drowning pipe is less than an inner diameter of the second fluid collecting channel and an inner diameter of the third fluid collecting channel, and the outlet channel is in fluid communication with the third fluid collecting channel through the drowning pipe.

8. The heat exchange device according to claim 7 , wherein, a port of the inlet channel in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing and a port of the outlet channel in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing are covered by a projection of the second fluid collecting channel on the first wall portion.

9. The heat exchange device according to claim 8 , wherein, the housing is further provided with a second wall portion, the second wall portion is located in the first sub-housing, a first adapter seat is arranged in the second thick wall portion, the first adapter seat is provided with a first external connecting port, the wall portion is provided with an adapter channel, and the first external connecting port is in fluid communication with the adapter channel.

10. The heat exchange device according to claim 9 , wherein, the housing is provided with a first matching portion, a second matching portion and a recess, wherein the first matching portion is located in the first sub-housing, the second matching portion is located in the second sub-housing, the first matching portion, the second matching portion and the recess are located on a same side of the housing, and the recess is located between the first matching portion and the second matching portion, one end of the adapter channel is located in the first matching portion, one end of the inlet channel and one end of the outlet channel are located in the second matching portion, the first matching portion is fixed with the heat exchanging core body by welding, the second matching portion is f

Assignees

• Zhejiang Sanhua Intelligent Controls Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Bing
• Wang Yun
• Ding Ran
• Zhang Rongrong

Classifications

• F25B43/003

  Filters · CPC title

• F25B2339/0441

  containing a drier or a filter · CPC title

• F25B2400/161

  arranged in parallel · CPC title

• F25B2339/045

  Condensers made by assembling a tube on a plate-like element or between plate-like elements · CPC title

• F25B39/04 Primary

  Condensers · CPC title