Patents by Inventor Eberhard Pantow

Eberhard Pantow has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20060048922
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 6957689
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 6892806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for motor vehicles, having a large number of flat tubes through which a liquid cooling medium can flow, and having corrugated fins which are associated with these flat tubes and to which environmental air or other media can be applied. The flat tubes having indentations pointing inward on at least one of their flat faces. Heat transfer between the core flow of the cooling medium and the flat tube walls is improved, and the power density of the heat exchanger is thus increased. The indentations are preferably in the form of elongated vortex generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Eberhard Pantow, Arnoldt Rehm, Rainer Richter, Lubens Simon
  • Publication number: 20050006074
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for motor vehicles, having a large number of flat tubes through which a liquid cooling medium can flow, and having corrugated fins which are associated with these flat tubes and to which environmental air or other media can be applied. The flat tubes having indentations pointing inward on at least one of their flat faces. Heat transfer between the core flow of the cooling medium and the flat tube walls is improved, and the power density of the heat exchanger is thus increased. The indentations are preferably in the form of elongated vortex generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Eberhard Pantow, Arnoldt Rehm, Rainer Richter, Lubens Simon
  • Patent number: 6837194
    Abstract: The motor vehicle cooling system (10) contains a fan (12) with which at least one cooler (13) is associated. Provision is made for the fan (12) to be in the form of a centrifugal blower with an air guiding housing (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Matthias Banzhaf, Wolfgang Kramer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow, Wolfgang Reeb, Annegret Tillmann
  • Patent number: 6729388
    Abstract: The invention provides a charge air cooler, especially for motor vehicles, having a finned-tube block. The finned-tube block includes flat tubes through which charge air can flow and at least one fin member attached to the flat tubes. At least one fin member includes rows of webs and web crosspieces, the rows offset relative to each other by a predetermined distance. At least one web and/or one web crosspiece possesses at least one vortex generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Daniel Hendrix, Rainer Richter, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 6619379
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kuli, Eberhard Pantow
  • Publication number: 20030106669
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow
  • Publication number: 20030047151
    Abstract: The motor vehicle cooling system (10) contains a fan (12) with which at least one cooler (13) is associated. Provision is made for the fan (12) to be in the form of a centrifugal blower with an air guiding housing (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Matthias Banzhaf, Wolfgang Kramer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow, Wolfgang Reeb, Annegret Tillmann
  • Publication number: 20010052411
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for motor vehicles, having a large number of flat tubes through which a liquid cooling medium can flow, and having corrugated fins which are associated with these flat tubes and to which environmental air or other media can be applied. The flat tubes having indentations pointing inward on at least one of their flat faces. Heat transfer between the core flow of the cooling medium and the flat tube walls is improved, and the power density of the heat exchanger is thus increased. The indentations are in the form of elongated vortex generators having a longitudinal axis, and the ratio between the height (H) of the vortex generators and the height (h) of the flat tubes is preferably approximately 0.05 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Publication date: December 20, 2001
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Eberhard Pantow, Arnoldt Rehm, Reiner Richter, Lubens Simon
  • Publication number: 20010027857
    Abstract: The invention provides a charge air cooler, especially for motor vehicles, having a finned-tube block. The finned-tube block includes flat tubes through which charge air can flow and at least one fin member attached to the flat tubes. At least one fin member includes rows of webs and web crosspieces, the rows offset relative to each other by a predetermined distance. At least one web and/or one web crosspiece possesses at least one vortex generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Daniel Hendrix, Rainer Richter, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 5905227
    Abstract: A method for weakening a detonation in a container or piping system by dividing up the starting detonation front and bringing it together in an expansion space. The detonation front is divided into a main front and a secondary front and the main front is routed into the expansion space with a longer propagation time, in such a way that when the main front enters into the expansion space, the space contains combustion gases of the secondary front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignees: Leinemann GmbH & Co., DLR Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Helmut Eichert, Frank Heinrich, Thomas Kratzel, Eberhard Pantow