Compact heat exchanger unit and air conditioning module particularly for electric vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11613156-B2
Application number	US-201917258246-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2019
Priority date	Jul 9, 2018
Publication date	Mar 28, 2023
Grant date	Mar 28, 2023

Abstract

A compact heat exchanger unit within an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle, and a condenser region for the condensation of refrigerant is formed as a heat exchanging surface, and a high-pressure-refrigerant collector region as a refrigerant collector is formed in the integrated form as a plate packet of a heat exchanger within a plate heat exchanger.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A compact heat exchanger unit within an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle for condensation of refrigerant cooled with liquid, wherein a condenser region for the condensation of the refrigerant is formed as a heat exchanging surface, and a high-pressure-refrigerant collector region as a refrigerant collector is formed in integrated form as plate packets within a plate heat exchanger, wherein a separate excess cooling region for excess cooling of the refrigerant is connected after the condenser region, and integrated within the compact heat exchanger unit as the plate packet.

2. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 1 , wherein the condenser region, the excess cooling region, and the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region are arranged in parallel with each other as the plate packets of the plate heat exchanger, the refrigerant flows through the condenser region and then is guided and collected into the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region, and then guided to the excess cooling region to be excessively cooled.

3. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 1 , wherein the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region of the compact heat exchanger unit is formed to be charged and empty from a bottom thereof.

4. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 1 , wherein an evaporator region, an internal heat exchanger region, and the condenser region are formed as the plate packets, and integrated within an integrated plate heat exchanger.

5. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 1 , wherein a filter and/or a dryer and/or an expansion engine are integrated within the compact heat exchanger unit.

6. A compact heat exchanger unit within an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle for condensation of refrigerant cooled with liquid, wherein a condenser region for the condensation of the refrigerant is formed as a heat exchanging surface, and a high-pressure-refrigerant collector region as a refrigerant collector is formed in integrated form as plate packets within a plate heat exchanger, wherein an evaporator region, an internal heat exchanger region, and the condenser region are formed as the plate packets, and integrated within an integrated plate heat exchanger, and wherein the evaporator region, the internal heat exchanger region, the condenser region, the condenser region and the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region of the compact heat exchanger unit are thermally insulated from each other, and insulation plates are arranged between the evaporator region, the internal heat exchanger region, the condenser region, the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region, and the condenser region.

7. The compact heat exchanger unit 1 of claim 4 , wherein delivery channels are arranged between the evaporator region, the internal heat exchanger region, the condenser region, the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region, and the condenser region of the compact heat exchanger unit as the plate packets of the plate heat exchanger for guiding the refrigerant from a lower surface of the compact heat exchanger unit to an upper surface thereof.

8. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 4 , wherein the plate, the plate packets, and the evaporator region, the internal heat exchanger region, the condenser region, the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region, and the condenser region of the compact heat exchanger unit 1 are soldered together.

9. A compact heat exchanger unit within an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle for condensation of refrigerant cooled with liquid, wherein a condenser region for the condensation of the refrigerant is formed as a heat exchanging surface, and a high-pressure-refrigerant collector region as a refrigerant collector is formed in integrated form as plate packets within a plate heat exchanger, wherein a plate of the plate heat exchanger has a rib, the rib is formed by an offset-design, a dimple-design, or a chevron-design, and the rib formed by the offset-design is implemented between two plates as an insertion plate.

10. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 9 , wherein the plate of the plate heat exchanger within the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region has the rib as the insertion plate formed by the offset-design, the insertion plate has a recess for enlarging a volume of the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region, the recess has a grain structure, a fir structure, or a long hole structure, and the insertion plate is connected to the plate through a plurality of contact points.

11. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 10 , wherein if the plates are arranged in parallel with each other, a structure of the insertion plate having the recess for enlarging the volume of the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region is replaced for improving a pressure strength.

12. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 9 , wherein the plate of the plate heat exchanger within the internal heat exchanger region has the rib formed by the dimple-design on a low pressure side, and has the rib as an insertion part formed by the offset-design on the high pressure side.

13. A compact heat exchanger unit within an air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle for condensation of refrigerant cooled with liquid, wherein a condenser region for the condensation of the refrigerant is formed as a heat exchanging surface, and a high-pressure-refrigerant collector region as a refrigerant collector is formed in integrated form as plate packets within a plate heat exchanger, wherein plates within the condenser region and an excess cooling region have a rib as an insertion part formed by an offset-design and/or the rib formed by a chevron-design.

14. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 4 , wherein a plate of the plate heat exchanger within the evaporator region has a rib formed by a dimple-design.

15. The compact heat exchanger unit of claim 6 , wherein the plate packets of the evaporator region, the internal heat exchanger region, the condenser region, the high-pressure-refrigerant collector region, and the condenser region of the compact heat exchanger unit for flowing through fluid have a section having a double, triple, or quadruple pipe as a channel.

Assignees

• Hanon Systems

Inventors

• Heyl Peter
• Cech Radim
• Slavik Radek

Classifications

• F28D21/00

  Heat-exchange apparatus not covered by any of the groups F28D1/00 - F28D20/00 · CPC title

• B60H1/00278 Primary

  for the battery · CPC title

• B60H1/00342 Primary

  of the liquid-liquid type · CPC title

• F28F2275/04

  by brazing · CPC title

• F28F3/048

  in the form of ribs integral with the element or local variations in thickness of the element, e.g. grooves, microchannels · CPC title