Patents Assigned to BEHR GmbH & Co.
  • Publication number: 20140090807
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a first fluid connection and a second fluid connection, the housing being in fluid communication with a fluid circuit, and a fluid flowing through said housing, by means of said fluid connections, wherein the housing a housing upper part and a housing lower part, wherein the housing lower part can be connected to the housing upper part by a connecting element by means of an interlocking and/or cohesive connection, wherein the connecting element has a large number of stud-like elements which are connected to one another by means of connecting crosspieces, wherein the connecting element has an at least partially circumferential edge, and at least the stud-like elements and/or the edge are/is in contact with the housing upper part and/or the housing lower part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Achim WIEBELT, Stefan HIRSCH
  • Publication number: 20140090811
    Abstract: Heat exchanger (1) having a housing (9), having a first fluid port (6, 7) and having a second fluid port (7, 6), wherein the housing (9) is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the first fluid port (6, 7) and the second fluid port (7, 6) and can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, characterized in that the housing (9) is of multi-part design and is formed by a housing upper part (3) and a trough-like housing lower part (2), wherein the housing lower part (2) has a base region (7) and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region (6), wherein the housing upper part (3) or the housing lower part (2) is formed from a plastic and the respective other housing part (3, 2) is formed from a plastic, a metallic material or a fiber composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090812
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a first collecting box and having a second collecting box, having at least one tube arranged between the two collecting boxes, wherein a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet are provided which are arranged individually on in each case one of the collecting boxes or on a single one of the collecting boxes, wherein the tube is received at the ends in an opening in in each case one of the collecting boxes and is in fluid communication with the collecting boxes, wherein the opening is surrounded by an opening edge whose contour corresponds to the outer contour of the tube, and in that the opening is designed such that the opening cross section narrows toward the interior of the collecting box and the tube can be inserted, under preload at the circumference, into the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090823
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger with a first and a second collecting tank, with at least one tube arranged between the two collecting tanks, each having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. At least one tube end is in fluid communication with a collecting tank and is connected to the collecting tank via a form-fitting and/or integrally bonded connection, wherein the opening is surrounded by an opening edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael MOSER, Caroline SCHMID, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN, Stefan HIRSCH, Nic SAUTTER
  • Publication number: 20140090813
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a first fluid port and having a second fluid port, wherein the housing is in fluid communication with a fluid source via the fluid ports, wherein the housing can be traversed by a flow of a fluid, wherein the housing is of multi-part design and has a housing upper part and a housing lower part, wherein the housing upper part and/or the housing lower part has a base region and an at least partially encircling turned-up edge region, wherein housing the two parts are formed from a plastic or a fiber composite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090810
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a housing, having a fluid inlet and having a fluid outlet, wherein the heat exchanger is in fluid communication via the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet with a fluid circuit, having a flow-guiding element in the interior of the housing, wherein the housing is formed from a substantially planar housing upper part and a substantially trough-like housing lower part, wherein the housing lower part has a base region and an encircling side wall, wherein the housing lower part is formed by a supporting structure and an encasement and the supporting structure is at least partially surrounded by the encasement, wherein the supporting structure is formed from a metallic material, and the encasement is formed substantially from a plastic, wherein the housing upper part is formed from a plastic and the housing lower part is connected to the housing upper part substantially by means of plastic-on-plastic contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN
  • Publication number: 20140090803
    Abstract: Connecting system for a heat exchanger, the housing of which is formed by a housing top part and a housing bottom part, wherein the connecting system has a first and a second connecting element, by means of which the housing bottom part is connected to the housing top part by a positive and/or material connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Caroline SCHMID, Michael MOSER, Nikolaus DAUBITZER, Holger SCHROTH, Heiko NEFF, Dominique RAIBLE, Anton KIERIG, Thomas SCHIEHLEN, Nic SAUTTER, Stefan HIRSCH
  • Publication number: 20140083665
    Abstract: Heat exchanger having a block of flat tubes arranged parallel to one another and having fins arranged between the flat tubes, wherein the flat tubes form flow ducts through which a refrigerant can flow, and a coolant can flow around the flat tubes, wherein the flat tubes are in fluid communication, at end regions, with collecting tanks, wherein the refrigerant can be made to flow into an inflow region of a collecting tank in fluid communication with at least one of the flow ducts, wherein the inflow region has a line, which extends through the inflow region, for inflow of the refrigerant, wherein a refrigerant passage is provided from the line to the collecting tank inflow region, said refrigerant passage arranged in the central region of the collecting take inflow region, wherein the central region is in relation to a direction oriented perpendicularly to a plane of the flat tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Günther FEUERECKER
  • Publication number: 20140075926
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler for cooling combustion exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine having a cooling medium, wherein the exhaust gas cooler has an exhaust gas inlet for introducing hot combustion exhaust gas into the exhaust gas cooler. Furthermore, the exhaust gas cooler has an exhaust gas outlet for directing cooled combustion exhaust gas out of the exhaust gas cooler, wherein the exhaust gas outlet is fluidically connected to the exhaust gas inlet. Furthermore, the exhaust gas cooler has at least one coolant inlet for fluidically connecting the exhaust gas cooler to at least one coolant outlet of the internal combustion engine. Furthermore, the exhaust gas cooler has an interface for fluidically connecting a water collecting adapter, wherein the interface is designed to carry the coolant out of the exhaust gas cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang BUCHER, Oliver GRILL
  • Patent number: 8671669
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas cooler for a motor vehicle is provided that includes a flow path which can be traversed by exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine and which has an inlet region and an outlet region for the exhaust gas, a housing which surrounds the flow path and which has at least one inlet and at least one outlet for a liquid coolant of a coolant circuit, wherein the coolant can flow around the flow path in order to cool the exhaust gas, and wherein the coolant circuit is formed as a main cooling circuit of the internal combustion engine of the motor vehicle, wherein the exhaust-gas cooler is arranged in the main cooling circuit in series with the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Holdenried, Stefan Neher
  • Publication number: 20140060605
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoelectric module comprising a metal housing element and a ceramic layer that is applied to the metal housing element. The thermoelectric module further comprises an additional housing element arranged on the side of the metal housing element which is provided with the ceramic layer, the additional housing element and the metal housing element being joined to form a fluid-tight housing. The thermoelectric module finally comprises at least one thermoelectrically active material which is arranged inside the fluid-tight housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Heinrich Angermann, Holger Brehm, Thomas Himmer
  • Publication number: 20140054018
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, in particular an intercooler, is provided that includes at least one collector box that has a base. At least one tube engages into a passage in an approximately perpendicular manner with respect to the base, the passage protruding out of the base and surrounding a tube end, and the passage has a rectangular cross-section that is adapted to the outer circumference of the tube. The aim of the invention is to further extend the service life of the heat exchanger with a further reduction of the wall thickness of the collector box base as well as of the tube. This is achieved in that a wall thickness of the passage is thinned at least in a corner region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Claus AUGENSTEIN, Harald BRONNER, Stephan POSSET, Silvia-Helena KLIPPHAHN, Eduard TYULYUKOVSKIY
  • Publication number: 20140054016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a condenser, in particular a condenser cooled by a coolant, said condenser consisting of at least one tube/fin block having several flat tubes, each flat tube having a plurality of flow channels that extend adjacent to one another in the tube transverse direction and define a refrigerant-side hydraulic diameter (Dh refrigerant). At least one respective intermediate element defining a coolant-side hydraulic diameter (Dh coolant) is arranged in the region of the flat tubes. The condenser is characterized in that the ratio of the two hydraulic diameters (Dh coolant) to (Dh refrigerant) is greater than (>) 1.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Förster, Herbert Hofmann, Christoph Walter
  • Publication number: 20140054388
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-diverting element with a flow-optimized contour for an air-conditioning system, in particular of a motor vehicle, which air-diverting element extends approximately perpendicular to an air flow direction. To divert an air flow through approximately 180° and at the same time nevertheless prevent pressure losses and disadvantageous acoustic effects, one end of the air-diverting element is adjoined by an approximately parabolic elongation which is situated opposite that side of the air-diverting element which faces away from the air flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Heilemann, Harald Mühleisen, Vincenzo Venezia, Holger Laux
  • Publication number: 20140048230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for a battery unit, comprising coolant-conducting tubes (3b) which end at both sides in in each case one collector (3a, 3c), wherein each collector (3a, 3c) is connected to at least one tube (3b) and a potential equalization element for electrical potential equalization connects at least one collector (3a, 3c) to a housing (5) of the battery (2). To produce potential equalization between the heat exchanger and a battery housing in as inexpensive a manner as possible, the potential equalization element (14, 15, 17, 23, 24) and the collector (3a, 3c) are formed in one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan HIRSCH, Joachim TREIER, Lars LUDWIG, Thomas KUZNIA
  • Publication number: 20140048112
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermoelectric heat exchanger, comprising two pipes (2, 3), wherein a first pipe (2) encloses a second pipe (3). In a thermoelectric heat exchanger which has a high level of efficiency, a thermoelectric material unit (8) is arranged between the first and second pipes (2, 3), preferably without mechanical contact with said first and second pipes (2, 3), and a first fluid (10) flows around the first pipe (2) from the outside, while a second fluid (11) flows through the second pipe (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas HIMMER
  • Patent number: 8651092
    Abstract: A gas cooler for an internal combustion engine is provided that includes a gas duct through which a gas flow supplied to the internal combustion engine can flow in a flow direction, and having a heat exchanger which is inserted into the gas duct through a lateral opening in an insertion direction, wherein a fluid or cooling the gas flow can flow through the heat exchanger, and wherein a first profile which runs in the insertion direction is formed on at least one side of the heat exchanger, which first profile meshes with a second profile provided on the gas duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Franco Ghiani
  • Publication number: 20140041411
    Abstract: The invention relates to an insert for a collector of a condenser, having a main body with a sealing lip for abutment against the inner wall of the collector axially between the two flow transfer openings of the collector, having a filter element for the fluid to flow through, having a fluid diverting element, and having a fluid duct such that the fluid diverting element diverts the radially inflowing fluid stream into an axially flowing fluid stream, and the fluid duct conducts the diverted fluid flow to the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe FÖRSTER, David GUILLAUME, Martin KASPAR, Matthias JUNG, Christoph WALTER, Ottokar KUNBERGER, Andreas KEMLE
  • Publication number: 20140042713
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for sealing line interfaces in a motor vehicle in which lines from an engine compartment of the motor vehicle are led into a vehicle interior, wherein the engine compartment is separated from the vehicle interior by a partition which has an opening, through which the lines are led, and the opening is closed on the vehicle interior side by a seal, which is fastened to a functional unit arranged in the vehicle interior. In order to enable a reliable sealing function despite the assembly tolerance to be compensated, a flange of the functional unit that bears the seal can be moved relative to the functional unit, or the seal is movably arranged on the flange, which is rigidly fastened to the functional unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Grieb, Kai Wustlich, Matthias Schall
  • Patent number: 8647788
    Abstract: A fuel cell module (1) with a fuel cell (2), a residual gas burner (4) and a heat exchanger (6). The service life of the module (1) can be improved by at least one compensator (27) for establishing a flow-carrying connection between the residual gas burner (4) and the heat exchanger (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Eberspächer Climate Control Systems GmbH & Co KG, Behr GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Andreas Kaupert, Markus Münzner, Klaus Luz, Martin Brenner