Patents Assigned to BEHR GmbH & Co.
  • Patent number: 8641491
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating device comprising an operating control for positioning actuating elements, in particular in a heating or air conditioning unit and to a heating or air conditioning unit, in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising an actuating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Voigt, Hilmar Hegner
  • Publication number: 20140027096
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, in particular for a heating or air-conditioning system in a motor vehicle, having an evaporator unit to which a refrigerant medium can be supplied via a distribution unit and through which said refrigerant medium flows and around which said refrigerant medium flows after only one diversion (two-block design) at the bottom in a diversion unit, wherein the distribution unit is designed to effect a uniform distribution of the refrigerant medium over the hill width of the evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Freund, Wolfgang Seewald, Michael Sickelmann, Bernd Schäfer
  • Publication number: 20140030974
    Abstract: An air nozzle for discharging an air flow from an air supply duct of a heating, ventilation or air-conditioning system, in particular in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, composed of a nozzle body and of a receiving element which receives the nozzle body, wherein the receiving element is arranged on the air supply duct, and wherein the nozzle body and/or the receiving element are/is mounted so as to be pivotable about at least one degree of freedom, wherein in the interior of the nozzle body there is arranged a swirl insert which is arranged fixedly and which is connected rigidly to the nozzle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marco D'Angelo, Thomas Rais, Axel Tidelski
  • Publication number: 20140027444
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating device having a housing and having a fluid duct which is arranged in said housing and which has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, wherein, in the housing, there is provided an element which generates an alternating magnetic field and which is separated from the fluid duct in a sealed manner by at least one wall, wherein furthermore, at least one metallic areal heating element is provided which can be heated by the alternating magnetic field, wherein the at least one areal heating element is arranged in the fluid duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicants: Behr GmbH & Co., KG, Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH, Behr France Rouffach SAS
    Inventors: Michael KOHL, Karl-Gerd KRUMBACH, Karl LOCHMAHR, Wolfgang SEEWALD, Olivier SCHUNCK, Dirk NAGEL, Lars HEEPER, Matthias STALLEIN, Michael STEINKAMP, Karsten MARQUAS, Volker DICKE
  • Patent number: 8636127
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan drive device (1) for driving at least one fan impeller (2), comprising at least one first drivable coolable housing element (9, 10) with at least one output disc (13) which can be connected to the at least one drivable coolable housing element (9, 10) in such a way as to be capable of transmitting torque by fluid friction, wherein at least one fluid can be admitted to at least one torque-transmitting space, and the mass flow of said fluid can be regulated by means of a valve element (30), wherein the valve element (30) can be actuated by at least one actuator (26, 27), and at least a section of the actuator (26, 27) is arranged in at least one retaining element (33) for fastening to a motor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gerold Schultheiss, Rudolf Stoklossa, Roman Woiterski
  • Publication number: 20140023200
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning unit having an air duct, having a fan for conveying an airflow through the air duct, having a heat exchanger for the thermal conditioning of the airflow and having an apparatus for noise reduction, which apparatus has a microphone, a loudspeaker and an evaluation and control unit, the microphone being arranged in a housing indentation of the duct wall of the air duct, the housing indentation having a wall and the loudspeaker being arranged at least partially in an opening of the duct wall of the air duct in a manner which is spaced apart from the microphone in the direction of the noise emission, wherein the wall of the housing indentation is curved at least partially, the housing indentation of the microphone being covered with a porous acoustically transparent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Michael PAUL, Klaus GRUBER
  • Publication number: 20140013787
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a plate-type heat exchanger or chiller, with multiple stacking plates stacked one on top of the other such that a first fluid duct for a first fluid and a second fluid duct for a second fluid are formed between the stacking plates. A first inlet and outlet opening for conducting in and discharging the first fluid, and a second inlet and outlet opening for conducting in and discharging the second fluid is provided. The first inlet or outlet opening is formed by an immersion pipe and the first fluid can be conducted into the first fluid duct through the immersion pipe, such that the first inlet and outlet openings are formed on the same side of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Wesner, Hans-Georg Herrmann, Peter Klein, Thomas Himmer
  • Patent number: 8627882
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, particularly an exhaust gas heat exchanger, for transferring heat in two stages between a first fluid and second and third fluids that have different temperatures includes a block for separately conducting the first and second and third fluids in a heat transferring manner. The block encompasses a number of ducts through which the first fluid can flow, a first chamber of a high-temperature part through which the second fluid can flow and which accommodates the ducts, a second chamber of a low-temperature part through which the third fluid flows and which accommodates the ducts, and a housing in which the first and second chamber as well as the ducts are arranged. The first chamber and the second chamber are separated from one another by a separation area that is mounted in a groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Schmidt, Ulrich Maucher, Juergen Barwig, Tobias Fetzer, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Peter Geskes, Jens Ruckwied
  • Patent number: 8621883
    Abstract: A rotating valve is provided that includes an inlet region having a plurality of stationary separate inlets for several flows of a fluid and an outlet region having an in particular identical plurality of stationary separate outlets for the flows of the fluid, wherein between the inlet region and the outlet region a switching region having a switching member that can be rotated about an axis is provided, wherein in a first position of the switching member the plurality of inlets are connected to the plurality of outlets in a first association, and wherein in a second position of the switching member the plurality of inlets are connected to the plurality of outlets in a second association, wherein the switching member comprises a plurality of openings through which the fluid flows flow axially in the direction of the rotation axis and which are moved together with the switching member, the openings alternately covering a plurality of stationary, axially directed openings in the course of the rotation of the sw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Burk, Thomas Haller
  • Publication number: 20140000569
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intake pipe for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a housing that defines a charge-air channel and an intercooler having a cooler block, which is arranged in the housing in such a way that the charge air can flow through the cooler block. The cooler block of the intercooler terminates on a side facing the housing with an outer component, preferably a cooling fin, and at least one recess is formed in said outer component of the cooler block, the at least one recess extending at least across part of the length of the cooler block substantially perpendicularly to the charge-air flow direction. Furthermore, at least one projection is provided on an inside face of the housing facing the cooler block of the intercooler, said projection extending at least across part of the inner face of the housing substantially perpendicularly to the charge-air flow direction and engaging at least partially in the at least one recess of the cooler block in a sealing manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicants: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GmbH, BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Eilemann, Hubert Pomin, Christian Saumweber, Veit Bruggesser, Jürgen Stehlig
  • Patent number: 8615991
    Abstract: A device for reducing corrosive constituents in an exhaust gas condensate of an internal combustion engine is provided, in which the exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine is recirculated to the internal combustion engine via an exhaust gas recirculation system having an exhaust gas cooler and at least one exhaust gas recirculation line. To protect the exhaust gas recirculation system along with intake air components and the internal combustion engine from the corrosive effects of the exhaust gas condensate, the exhaust gas recirculation system has at least one neutralization unit for neutralizing the corrosive constituents of the exhaust gas condensate, which is connected to at least one component arranged downstream, through which the exhaust gas, which has been freed of nearly all corrosive constituents, flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Ruckwied, Wolfgang Knoedler, Klaus Irmler, Joerg Werner
  • Patent number: 8616012
    Abstract: A vaporizer for a cooling circuit, particularly for a motor vehicle, is provided that includes a vaporization region, wherein a coolant flowing through the vaporization region takes up heat from an outside region, wherein the vaporization region is downstream of a first expansion element on the inlet side in the direction of flow of the coolant, wherein an exchanger member is provided between the vaporization region and the first expansion element, and wherein heat can be transferred from the coolant upstream of the vaporization region to the coolant downstream of the vaporization region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Gottfried Duerr, Guenther Feuerecker, Stefan Hirsch, Tobias Isermeyer, Caroline Schmid, Christoph Walter, Achim Wiebelt
  • Patent number: 8607855
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-conditioning system for a motor-driven vehicle, having a refrigerant circuit (20) with a plurality of heat exchangers (4, 24) through which a refrigerant can be conducted for an exchange of heat with the air which flows through them, with it being possible for the heat exchangers (4, 24) to be operated as heaters or as evaporators as a function of the operating state of the air-conditioning system, and at least one third heat exchanger (16) is provided in the refrigerant circuit (20), which third heat exchanger (16) serves for an exchange of heat with a coolant circuit (13) which is formed separately from the refrigerant circuit (20). The vehicle can be both a motor vehicle and also a fuel-cell-driven vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Behr GmbH & Co. KG, Behr America, Inc., Behr France Rouffach SAS
    Inventors: Günther Feuerecker, Karl Lochmahr, Frank Müller, Dirk Neumeister, Thomas Strauβ, Marcus Weinbrenner, Richard Obradovich, Gunnar Schlinke, Christophe Schmittheisler
  • Publication number: 20130327512
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a block, which has fins and pipes and which is arranged between two reservoirs, wherein each fin comprises several fin sections and each fin section is approximately V-shaped and the two flanks forming a fin section each have several air slits, which extend perpendicularly to the flow direction of a medium flowing through the fin section, wherein the two flanks of the fin section are connected by means of a first connecting surface and/or the flanks of two consecutive fin sections across from each other are connected by means of a second connecting surface, wherein the first connecting surface and/or the second connecting surface has a fin section cross-section variation element, which is directed into the intermediate space between the flanks forming a fin section and/or the flanks of two consecutive fin sections that are across from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Friedrich Brotz, Volker Kurz
  • Patent number: 8602006
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve, especially a rotary piston valve (1), for controlling the temperature and quantity of the returned exhaust gas in internal combustion engines. Said valve comprises a valve housing (2) and a control element (3) disposed therein which interacts with a valve face (14) configured in the valve housings (2), the control element (3) having a conical surface area (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: József Mercz, Jürgen Rosin, Martin Stiegler, Gyula Tóth
  • Publication number: 20130320102
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle air conditioning system, comprising a housing, a fan and at least one heating device, the intention is for different heating devices to be able to be fastened to a housing in a technically simple manner with low production costs. This problem is solved in that the at least one heating device is fastened to the housing, in particular exclusively, by at least one adaptor cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Erich Litwing, Sascha Lindauer, Walter Wolf
  • Publication number: 20130323543
    Abstract: The invention relates to a temperature-control device for the temperature control of an energy source, wherein the temperature-control device comprises a temperature-control unit, which has at least one Peltier element which is arranged between an accommodation area for the energy source and a fluid area in a thermally effective manner. Furthermore, the temperature-control device comprises a control unit for supplying voltage to the Peltier element, wherein the control unit is designed to supply a voltage to the Peltier element, which causes the Peltier element to transfer heat from the hotter part of the accommodation area or fluid area to the colder part of the accommodation area or fluid area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Grünwald, Manuel Wehowski
  • Publication number: 20130323072
    Abstract: The invention relates to an axial fan for delivering cooling air, in particular for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising fan blades which are fastened to a hub and which have a pressure side and a suction side and a trailing edge and a blade depth, on the pressure side of which fan blades is arranged a hub ramp which rises counter to the direction of rotation of the axial fan, wherein the trailing edge has an outer region situated radially outside the hub ramp and has an inner region situated radially within the hub ramp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Aschermann, Uwe Blass, Frederic Guilbaud
  • Publication number: 20130319648
    Abstract: A fin for a heat exchanger, comprising a fin plate which is corrugated in a longitudinal direction and which is arranged between two structures and comprising a multiplicity of fin flanks formed by the corrugation, wherein the fin plate can be traversed in a depth direction by a flow of an in particular gaseous fluid for the purpose of transferring heat between the structures and the gaseous fluid, and wherein a multiplicity of gills with a gill depth and with a gill angle with respect to the depth direction is provided in the fin plate, said gills being arranged one behind the other on the fin flanks, running on a neutral line and extending substantially transversely with respect to the depth direction. The fin flanks have, at least in regions, a substantially undulating structure profile, resulting in an arrangement of the gills which runs on an undulating neutral line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 8596342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger housing (1) for at least one heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid, in particular an exhaust gas or charge air, and a second fluid, in particular a coolant (6). According to the concept of the invention, a bypass duct (40) is integrated in the heat exchanger housing (1), with the housing having a housing body (10) with a chamber which is designed to be traversed by the second fluid and to hold a number of flow ducts which can be traversed by the first fluid; a bypass duct (40) which is designed to be traversed by the first fluid; with the chamber and the bypass duct (40) being formed in one piece with the housing body (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Aydin Dogan, Thomas Mitchell