Exhaust heat recovery device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9702292-B2
Application number	US-201314415233-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2013
Priority date	Jul 20, 2012
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

In an exhaust heat recovery device, exhaust gas flows out from a heat exchange outflow port into a heat exchange passage. The exhaust gas having flowed out into the heat exchange passage flows in a radial direction from an inner side to an outer side of a heat exchanger to reach a second heat exchange passage from a first heat exchange passage. A heat exchange is performed in the heat exchanger while the exhaust gas flows.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An exhaust heat recovery device performing a heat exchange between exhaust gas discharged from an internal combustion engine and a heat exchange medium, comprising:
an inner member forming a part of a main passage that connects a receiving inlet receiving the exhaust gas flowing from an upstream side to a main sending outlet sending the received exhaust gas into a downstream side, and forming an upstream side main passage, which is a part of the receiving inlet side of the main passage;
an outer member disposed to surround the inner member and forming a heat exchange passage with the inner member;
a heat exchanger disposed on the heat exchange passage to surround the inner member and performing the heat exchange between the exhaust gas and the heat exchange medium; and
a switching unit switching between a first mode in which the exhaust gas received with the main passage is passed through only the main passage to flow into the main sending outlet, and a second mode in which the exhaust gas received with the main passage flows from the upstream side main passage through the heat exchange passage into a subsending outlet different from the main sending outlet, wherein:
the heat exchange passage includes a first heat exchange passage formed between the heat exchanger and the inner member, and a second heat exchange passage formed between the heat exchanger and the outer member,
the inner member and the heat exchanger are disposed such that a heat exchange outflow port through which the exhaust gas flows out from the upstream side main passage into the first heat exchange passage is formed on an end of the first heat exchange passage on the main sending outlet side, and the subsending outlet is formed on an end of the second heat exchange passage on the main sending outlet side,
in the second mode, the exhaust gas flows out from the heat exchange outflow port into the heat exchange passage, the exhaust gas having flowed out into the heat exchange passage flows in a radial direction from an inner side to an outer side of the heat exchanger while flowing through the first heat exchange passage toward the upstream side to reach the second heat exchange passage from the first heat exchange passage and flows through the second heat exchange passage toward the downstream side, and the heat exchange is performed in the heat exchanger while the exhaust gas flows,
the heat exchanger is formed to have a shape along the inner member and the outer member respectively and includes a plurality of heat exchanger simple components disposed while being laminated with a predetermined interval therebetween,
the heat exchanger performs the heat exchange by the flowing of the heat exchange medium inside each of the heat exchanger simple components and the flowing of the exhaust gas on a heat exchange area between the plurality of heat exchanger simple components, and
the heat exchanger is disposed with a diffuser configured to diffuse the exhaust gas flowing into the heat exchange area in a circumferential direction of the heat exchange area.

2. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 1 , wherein an upstream side end plate blocking an upstream end of the heat exchange passage is disposed between the inner member and the outer member such that the exhaust gas is prevented from flowing from an upstream side into the heat exchange passage.

3. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein a downstream side end plate blocking a downstream end of the first heat exchange passage is disposed between the inner member and the outer member such that the exhaust gas flowing out from the heat exchange outflow port is introduced into the first heat exchange passage.

4. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 1 , wherein the diffuser partially restricts the flowing of the exhaust gas from the first heat exchange passage to the heat exchange area.

5. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 4 , wherein the diffuser includes a first convex portion formed on each of the heat exchanger simple components on the first heat exchange passage side.

6. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 4 , wherein the diffuser includes a first plate part disposed along an inner side surface of the heat exchanger between the inner side surface of the heat exchanger and the first heat exchange passage.

7. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 1 , wherein the diffuser partially restricts the flowing of the exhaust gas from the heat exchange area to the second heat exchange passage.

8. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 7 , wherein the diffuser includes a second convex portion formed on each of the heat exchanger simple components on the second heat exchange passage side.

9. The exhaust heat recovery device according to claim 7 , wherein the diffuser includes a second plate part disposed along an outer side surface of the heat exchanger between the outer side surface of the heat exchanger and the second heat exchange passage.

Assignees

• Futaba Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kobayashi Arata
• Okami Hirohisa

Classifications

• F28D7/005

  the conduits for only one medium being tubes having bent portions or being assembled from bent tubes or being tubes having a toroidal configuration (F28D7/0008, F28D7/02, F28D7/04, F28D7/06, F28D7/14 take precedence) · CPC title

• F28D9/0043

  the plates having openings therein for circulation of at least one heat-exchange medium from one conduit to another · CPC title

• F28F9/0265

  by using guiding means or impingement means inside the header box · CPC title

• Y02T10/16

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F28D7/024

  the conduits of only one medium being helically coiled tubes, the coils having a cylindrical configuration · CPC title