Patents Assigned to BEHR GmbH & Co.
  • Tube plate for exhaust heat exchanger
    Publication number: 20030079869
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a tube plate made of stainless steel for exhaust heat exchangers, with punched openings to hold the tube ends of a tube bundle, wherein the openings preferably have a rectangular cross section and are arranged grid-like with a web width b. Each of the openings has a shear surface with height h produced by punching, and which is adjoined by a bevel of depth t, that is manufactured before punching, and wherein the height h is roughly the same as or smaller than the web width b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Steffen Brunner, Thomas Bachner
  • Coolant circuit for motor vehicle
    Publication number: 20030070427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coolant circuit for a motor vehicle having an engine and a radiator. The coolant circuit includes an exhaust gas heat exchanger and enables engine coolant coming from the radiator to be supplied directly to the exhaust gas heat exchanger. In a preferred embodiment, coolant coming from the radiator and/or from the engine can be selectively supplied to the exhaust gas heat exchanger via a changeover device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO
    Inventors: Matthias Banzhaf, Markus Glaser, Michael Schmidt, Andreas Seeger, Marcus Weinbrenner
  • Heating device suitable for motor vehicles
    Publication number: 20030062036
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating device, in particular for motor vehicles, for generating frictional heat by liquid friction with a housing which is arranged in a stationary position and has a working space and a motor-driven rotor in the working space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Claus Augenstein, Armin Gramlich, Oezguer Kamsiz, Kuno Lindauer, Ralf Maus
  • Holding assembly for the attachment of an exhaust gas heat exchanger
    Publication number: 20030056937
    Abstract: A holding assembly for fastening an exhaust gas heat exchanger to a structural component, with a circumferential bracket which encloses the exhaust gas heat exchanger between its ends, which holding assembly presents at least one attachment bracket for fastening the holder to the structural component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Muller, Andreas Reschke, Jurgen Rosin
  • Equalizing tank
    Patent number: 6536226
    Abstract: An equalizing tank is disclosed comprising a housing, a pressure dissipation orifice, and a return flow line configured to provide fluid communication within the housing without fluid entering the pressure dissipation orifice. Also disclosed is a method of making the equalizing tank and an automotive air-conditioning system including the equalizing tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Dietrich Klingler
  • Heat exchanger block
    Patent number: 6536512
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger block having a row of heat exchanger walls (1f, 1g) which are arranged at a distance from one another and define intervening heat-exchange medium flow chambers (1c, 3) for a first and a second heat-exchange medium, and a plurality of spaced thermally conductive rods (2) which extend all the way through the row of heat exchanger walls (1f, 1g) and the intervening heat-exchange medium flow chambers (1c, 3). The heat exchanger walls are formed by flat-tube sections (1) which are arranged at a distance from one another in the direction of the row and the interiors (1c) of which form first heat-exchange medium flow chambers, and the flat-tube interspaces (3) of which form second heat-exchange medium flow chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Josef Kern
  • Motor vehicle cooling system and motor vehicle embodying same
    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
  • Cooler and method of cooling a medium
    Publication number: 20030037917
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooler having means for directing a cooling medium, means for directing a medium to be cooled, and an essentially axially symmetrical housing. The means for directing the medium to be cooled is arranged in such a way that the medium to be cooled, in at least one first region, flows in an essentially axial direction, and the medium to be cooled, in at least one second region, flows in a direction having a radial component. The invention also relates to a method of cooling a medium and to various uses of a cooler according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventor: Karsten Emrich
  • Refrigerant condenser
    Patent number: 6505481
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerant condenser for motor vehicle air-conditioning systems of the type that include a tube/fin block, header tubes arranged on both sides of the tube/fin block and a collector arranged parallel to one header tube, wherein the header tubes have partitions for creating a multi-pass flow of the refrigerant, and the tube/fin block has an upper condensation region and a lower supercooling region. The collector is flow-connected via passage orifices to the condensation region, on the one hand, and to the supercooling region, on the other hand. The collector has approximately the same diameter or the same cross section as the adjacent header tube, and an additional container of larger cross section or larger diameter is provided for storing refrigerant and/or for receiving a dryer and/or filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Olaf Neumann, Siegfried Tews
  • Component for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 6502897
    Abstract: Disclosed is a component in a hybrid construction, in particular a cross member for arranging between A-pillars of a motor vehicle, having a shell-shaped base body which is stiffened by plastic reinforcing ribs and in which at least one duct is provided. In order to be able to integrate a duct in an advantageous manner, it is proposed that the duct is formed at least in some areas from a plastic shell which is injected together with the reinforcing ribs, extends in the longitudinal direction of the component and can be closed by means of a cover so as to form the duct. The component according to the invention is used as a dashboard support in a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Sabine Neuss, Thomas Reddig, Walter Wolf
  • Flow control device for a gas stream
    Patent number: 6499310
    Abstract: An airflow control device for air streams in a motor vehicle air-conditioning system includes an installation frame with pivotable lamellae (2) that are driven by an electric motor via a gear mechanism arranged on the outside of the frame. The gear mechanism comprises a plurality of cylindrical gearwheels (9 to 12) arranged one above the other, so as to be very narrow and such that the overall dimensions of the housing (5) for the gear mechanism do not exceed the width and height dimensions of the frame (1). This novel arrangement allows integration of the drive as a whole and minimizes the amount of space required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignees: Behr GmbH & Co., Sonceboz S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Reinisch, Daniel Dietz
  • Device for cooling a vehicle appliance, in particular a battery or a fuel cell
    Publication number: 20020195237
    Abstract: The device is used to cool a vehicle appliance, in particular a battery or a fuel cell, by means of a coolant. It has a plurality of identically designed cooling elements, through which coolant can flow, which can be brought into bearing contact to cool at least one component of the vehicle appliance. It includes a first cooling-element side and a second cooling-element side which is on the opposite side from the first cooling-element side. The cooling-element sides have connection openings, which form inlet and outlet openings for the coolant and are in communication with the interior space of the cooling element. In this arrangement, it is provided for the first and second cooling-element sides each to have at least two connection openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Klaus Luz, Herbert Damsohn, Conrad Pfender, Peter Geskes, Friedrich Brotz
  • Method for adjusting the recirculating air fraction of the inlet air delivered to a vehicle passenger compartment
    Publication number: 20020197949
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heating and/or air-conditioning system for a vehicle and a method for adjusting a recirculating air fraction of the inlet air delivered to a passenger compartment of a vehicle in order to avoid exceeding a predetermined limit value of at least one air parameter, in particular the carbon dioxide fraction and/or the humidity in the passenger compartment air. The method provides that one or more secondary parameters be obtained and analyzed for indirect determination of the air parameter, and that the recirculating air fraction be adjusted as a function of the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Kampf, Karl Lochmahr, Armin Britsch-Laudwein
  • Heat exchanger
    Publication number: 20020195239
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (1) consists of a plurality of disks (4) which are assembled to form a heat exchanger block or disk stack (16) and which are formed in each case from sheets (22) joined together in pairs and enclose between them at least one cavity designed as a duct. The cavity is delimited by the insides of the sheets (22). In the duct, an internal fluid flows in the longitudinal direction of the disks (4) and, on the outside of the disks, an external fluid flows transversely to the direction of flow of the internal fluid. Each sheet (22) has elevations (26, 33′) out of the disk plane, which are formed by material deformation and are directed both into the inside of the disk and toward the outside of the disk, the elevations (33′) directed toward the outside of the disk being configured as elongate stamped-out portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Gottfried Duerr, Peter Geskes, Michael Kohl, Andreas Lelster, Kurt Molt, Emil Neumann, Franz Ott, Christian Rebinger, Wolfgang Seewald
  • Vehicle cooling system for a temperature-raising device and method for the cooling of a temperature-raising device
    Publication number: 20020184908
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle cooling system (1) for a temperature-raising device (4), especially a drive battery or fuel cell, preferably for an electric or hybrid vehicle. The system has a coolant (7) that cools the device (4) with the involvement of an air-conditioning system (8) that serves for air-conditioning of the vehicle passenger compartment. It is preferred that the coolant (7) be a liquid coolant, which is carried in a cooling circuit (2) and for cooling of the liquid to be thermally integrated into the refrigeration circuit (3) of the air-conditioning system. The invention further relates to a method for cooling a temperature-raising vehicle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Friedrich Brotz, Herbert Damsohn, Peter Geskes, Klaus Luz, Conrad Pfender
  • Heat exchanger for a motor vehicle air-conditioning system
    Publication number: 20020178745
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for an air-conditioning system (54) of a motor vehicle having a plurality of conducting members (102) for a refrigerant, between which air can flow for heat exchange purposes. In order to provide a heat exchanger which supplies refrigerating output even when the compressor is switched off, the conducting members (102) are penetrated by one or more storage members (114) in which a storage medium is contained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventor: Hans Kampf
  • Folded multi-passageway flat tube
    Publication number: 20020174979
    Abstract: A folded multi-passageway flat tube is disclosed, which is made from a flat sheet metal strip and has folded webs and a longitudinal seam. Through-openings for improving the heat transfer and for generating transverse flow are provided in the folded webs. The through-openings are advantageously made by punching in the flat sheet metal strip, that is to say before folding, and are made congruent after folding. These folded multi-passageway flat tubes are preferably used for refrigerant condensers in motor vehicle air-conditioning systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Juergen Haegele, Volker Kurz
  • Heat-exchanger tube block with a plurality of slotted header tubes
    Patent number: 6484796
    Abstract: A heat-exchanger tube block is disclosed having at least two header tubes (6, 7), which are C-shaped in cross section and each of which has a continuous longitudinal slot (10, 11). Flat tubes (2a, 2b) are inserted into the header-tube longitudinal slots. A cover-plate element (12) is provided which has a plurality of C-shaped openings and is fitted over one end of the at least two header tubes, so that the header tubes respectively fit into one of the openings and are secured in a fluid-tight manner. The tube-block can be used, for example, in an evaporator of CO2 air-conditioning installations for a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Walter Demuth, Martin Kotsch, Hans-Joachim Krauss, Hagen Mittelstrass, Harald Raiser, Jochen Schumm, Michael Sickelmann, Karl-Heinz Staffa, Christoph Walter
  • Heating and/or air-conditioning system for an automobile and method of making same
    Patent number: 6482082
    Abstract: In a heating and/or air-conditioning system especially for an automobile with a blower housing and a distributor housing located in front of and below an instrument panel, provision is made such that the distributor housing can be separated toward the vehicle interior from the blower housing. The distributor housing has a front end facing the vehicle interior which fills a recess in the instrument panel provided for removing the distributor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Martin Derleth, Klaus Luz, Adem Hizli, Markus Schmid, Martin Stemmler, Walter Wolf
  • Desorbable sorption filter suitable for a motor vehicle heating or air-conditioning system
    Patent number: 6478858
    Abstract: A desorbable sorption filter, in particular for a heating or air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, has a metallic support (12) which can be heated by flow of current and an adsorber (14) mounted at or on the support (12). To provide an improved, directly heatable sorption filter which particularly enables inexpensive production and good electrical and thermal conductive contact without the use of adhesives, it is proposed for the adsorber (14) to be of planar design and to be mechanically connected to the support (12, 112) by means of holding elements (26) formed integrally on the support (12, 112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans-H. Angermann, Roland Burk, Herbert Damsohn, Klaus Luz, Tilo Rinckleb