Exhaust gas heat recovery device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9261005-B2
Application number	US-201214367850-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2012
Priority date	Dec 22, 2011
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

An exhaust gas heat recovery device of the present invention recovers heat of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas heat recovery device includes an exhaust pipe that leads the exhaust gas from an upstream side to a downstream side, a cylindrical shell that covers an outside of the exhaust pipe, and an exhaust gas heat recovery section that is interposed between the exhaust pipe and the cylindrical shell and that performs heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a heat exchange medium. The exhaust gas heat recovery section includes a stacked body that is composed by stacking a plurality of jacket each having a heat exchange medium conduit provided thereinside. In the stacked body, the respective heat exchange medium conduits in the plurality of jacket parts are serially connected to each other.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An exhaust gas heat recovery device that recovers heat of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, comprising:
an exhaust pipe that leads the exhaust gas from an upstream side to a downstream side;
a cylindrical shell that covers an outside of the exhaust pipe; and
an exhaust gas heat recovery section that is interposed between the exhaust pipe and the cylindrical shell and that performs heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a heat exchange medium,
wherein the exhaust gas heat recovery section includes a stacked body that comprises a plurality of stacked jacket parts each having a respective heat exchange medium conduit provided thereinside and each of a half-arc shape and, in the stacked body, the respective heat exchange medium conduits in the plurality of stacked jacket parts are serially connected to each other, via a respective inflow and outflow opening provided on each stacked jacket part, at opposite ends of the half-arc shape respectively,
wherein a first clearance, through which the exhaust gas from the exhaust pipe passes, is provided between an outer circumference of the exhaust pipe and the stacked body,
wherein a second clearance, through which the exhaust gas passes after passage through the first clearance, is provided between the plurality of stacked jacket parts constituting the stacked body, and
wherein a third clearance, through which the exhaust gas passes after passage through the second clearance, is provided between an inner circumference of the cylindrical shell and the stacked body.

2. The exhaust gas heat recovery device according to claim 1 ,
wherein each jacket part of the plurality of stacked jacket parts further comprises a flattened shape.

3. The exhaust gas heat recovery device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an end part having a heat exchange medium conduit of a ring shape provided thereinside,
wherein the stacked body comprises two jacket part assemblies each including multiple jacket parts of the plurality of stacked jacket parts,
wherein the two jacket part assemblies are disposed on the end part, such that the two jacket part assemblies face each other, and
wherein respective heat exchange medium conduits in the two jacket part assemblies are serially connected to each other via the heat exchange medium conduit in the end part.

4. The exhaust gas heat recovery device according to claim 1 ,
wherein each jacket part of the plurality of stacked jacket parts has two half-bodies, and the heat exchange medium conduit is provided inside of each jacket part of the plurality of stacked jacket parts by abutting the two half-bodies to each other.

5. The exhaust gas heat recovery device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a diversion valve arranged to lead the exhaust gas to the exhaust gas heat recovery section when the internal combustion engine is being warmed up,
wherein the diversion valve includes a domed-shaped valving element, and the diversion valve is arranged to cause the exhaust gas flowing out from the exhaust pipe to hit against the valving element and flow into the first clearance.

Assignees

• Futaba Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kato Hisayuki
• Okami Hirohisa

Classifications

• F28D9/0012

  the apparatus having an annular form · CPC title

• F01N2240/02

  a heat exchanger · CPC title

• F02M25/07

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F28F27/00

  Control arrangements or safety devices specially adapted for heat-exchange or heat-transfer apparatus (control arrangements in general G05) · CPC title

• F01N5/02 Primary

  the devices using heat · CPC title