Fluid system with at least one heating device for fluid, and heating device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9763286-B2
Application number	US-201615045175-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 16, 2016
Priority date	Aug 20, 2013
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

A fluid system of an internal combustion engine is provided with a heating device in a heating chamber. An electric heating element of the heating device is arranged between two holding bodies such that the heating element electrically and thermally contacts a contact section of at least one of the holding bodies. The heating chamber has an inner volume region between the holding bodies and at least one outer volume region arranged on an outer side of the holding bodies. The inner and outer volume regions allow fluid to flow through. The inner volume region has an enlarged section with a first spacing measured between the holding bodies. The holding bodies have a second spacing measured in a region of the contact section. The first spacing is greater than the second spacing at least at a circumferential side of the contact section facing the enlarged section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A fluid system of an internal combustion engine, the fluid system comprising:
at least one heating chamber including at least one inlet allowing a fluid to flow into the at least one heating chamber and at least one outlet allowing the fluid to exit from the at least one heating chamber;
at least one heating device including two holding bodies arranged in the at least one heating chamber;
the at least one heating device including at least one electrically operated heating element arranged between the two holding bodies such that the at least one heating element is electrically contacting and thermally contacting at least one contact section of at least one of the two holding bodies;
the at least one heating device including at least one inner volume region between the two holding bodies and further including a first outer volume region arranged on a first outer side of a first one of the two holding bodies, wherein the first outer side is facing away from the at least one inner volume region, and wherein the at least one inner volume region and the first outer volume region are configured to allow the fluid to flow through;
the at least one inner volume region including at least one enlarged section and the at least one enlarged section including a first spacing measured between the two holding bodies;
the two holding bodies including a second spacing measured in a region of the at least one contact section, wherein the first spacing is greater than the second spacing at least at a circumferential side of the at least one contact section that is facing the at least one enlarged section.

2. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one heating element is electrically contacting the two holding bodies.

3. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein on a second outer side of a second one of the two holding bodies a second outer volume region is arranged, wherein the second outer side is facing away from the at least one inner volume region.

4. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the two holding bodies is made of or comprises metal.

5. The fluid system according to claim 4 , wherein the metal is sheet metal.

6. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the two holding bodies comprises at least one ring part.

7. The fluid system according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one ring part is at least one sector of a circular ring disk.

8. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the two holding bodies comprises at least one bent or step at least in a transition area between the at least one contact section and the at least one inner volume region.

9. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one heating element comprises a temperature-dependent electrical resistor.

10. The fluid system according to claim 9 , wherein the temperature-dependent electrical resistor has a positive temperature coefficient.

11. The fluid system according to claim 1 , further comprising a holding device, wherein the two holding bodies and the at least one heating element positioned between the two holding bodies are held by the holding device in the at least one heating chamber.

12. The fluid system according to claim 11 , wherein the holding device is elastic.

13. The fluid system according to claim 1 , wherein the fluid system is a filter system for fuel, oil, water or urea solution.

14. A heating device for a fluid system, the heating device comprising:
two holding bodies arranged in at least one heating chamber;
at least one electrically operated heating element arranged between the two holding bodies such that the at least one heating element is electrically contacting and thermally contacting at least one contact section of at least one of the two holding bodies;
at least one inner volume region disposed between the two holding bodies;
a first outer volume region arranged on a first outer side of a first one of the two holding bodies, wherein the first outer side is facing away from the at least one inner volume region, and wherein the at least one inner volume region and the first outer volume region are configured to allow the fluid to flow through;
the at least one inner volume region including at least one enlarged section and the at least one enlarged section comprising a first spacing measured between the two holding bodies;
the two holding bodies including a second spacing measured in a region of the at least one contact section, wherein the first spacing is greater than the second spacing at least at a circumferential side of the at least one contact section that is facing the at least one enlarged section.

15. The heating device according to claim 14 , wherein on a second outer side of a second one of the two holding bodies a second outer volume region is arranged, wherein the second outer side is facing away from the at least one inner volume region.

Assignees

• Mann & Hummel Gmbh

Inventors

• Friederich Thomas
• Beyerlin Holger
• Weidinger Sven
• Goedecke Marco

Classifications

• F02M31/125

  Fuel · CPC title

• H05B3/023

  Electricity · mapped topic

• F24H9/2028

  Continuous-flow heaters · CPC title

• H05B1/0244 Primary

  Heating of fluids (H05B1/0247 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F02M37/223

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic