Patents Assigned to Behr GmbH
  • Condenser for an air-conditioning system, particularly for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7832230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a condenser for an air-conditioning system, particularly for a motor vehicle, with vertically arranged tubes, through which a coolant can flow and which are connected to an upper and a lower horizontally arranged manifold whereby permitting the flow of coolant. The inventive condenser also comprises a collector parallelly arranged underneath the lower manifold and, via an inflow opening and an outflow opening, between which a separating device is placed, is connected to the manifold in a manner that permits the flow of coolant. The collector accommodates a filtering and/or drying device. The separating device has a suction device for, in essence, liquid coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co, KG
    Inventors: Georg Feldhaus, Uwe Förster, Martin Kaspar, Kurt Molt
  • DEVICE FOR THE EXCHANGE OF HEAT AND MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20100282452
    Abstract: A device for the exchange of heat between a first and a second medium with pairs of trays stacked one on top of the other in a stacking direction is provided, wherein a first flow chamber that can be flowed through by a first medium is provided between the two trays of at least one pair of trays or several pairs of trays and a second flow chamber that can be flowed through by a second medium is provided between two pairs of trays adjacent to one another, wherein the first flow chamber has first flow path with flow path sections that can be flowed through consecutively in opposite directions for the first medium, which are separated from one another by a division wall arranged between the at least two trays of the at least one pair of trays, and wherein the second flow chamber has a second flow path for the second medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Johannes DIEM, Eberhard Pantow, Ulrich Maucher, Peter Geskes, Martin Kaemmerer, Michael Schmidt, Klaus Irmler, Jens Holdenried, Steffen Brunner
  • Inhibitory monoclonal antibody against blood clotting factor VII-activating protease
    Patent number: 7829095
    Abstract: A monoclonal antibody which inhibits the blood clotting factor VII-activating protease and its proenzyme and a blood clotting factor VII-activating protease, stabilized by the addition of said monoclonal antibody, and its proenzyme are described. A suitable monoclonal antibody is produced by hybridoma cell line DSM ACC 2533. The application of the inhibitory, monoclonal antibody in the stabilization of blood clotting preparations and in preparations for reducing the coagulability of the blood is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: CSL Behring GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Roemisch, Wiegand Lang, Annette Feussner, Gudrun Muth-Naumann, Hans-Arnold Stoehr, Christian Kannemaier, Klaus Preissner, Fumie Nakazawa
  • Regulatable drive for a motor vehicle component
    Patent number: 7828529
    Abstract: A regulatable drive for a motor vehicle, in particular for a water pump in a motor vehicle, has a rotatably mounted shaft, on which is located a rotatably mounted drive member and a rotationally fixed driven member. Between the drive member and driven member, a coupling region is defined, which can receive a viscous fluid for selectively coupling the drive member and driven member. The regulatable drive includes at least one first and at least one second flow path, which connect a fluid storage space to the coupling region, and it has a device which can be varied in its position by means of at least one actuator and which varies at least one passage orifice of at least one of the flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Baumgartner, Ralf Maus, Gerold Schultheiss
  • Method for producing pieces having a modified surface
    Patent number: 7829151
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for modifying piece surfaces consisting in bringing pieces into contact with at least one type of a modifying agent in such a way that the modification of the surface is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Snjezana Boger, Peter Englert, Mathias Pfitzer, Ingo Trautwein, Sabine Sedlmeir
  • Device and Method For Applying a Flow Agent For Hard Soldering of Parts
    Publication number: 20100270361
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for the preferably uneven application of flux to a material surface, in particular to the finned side of a plate of a plate-type radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO.,
    Inventors: Peter Englert, Ingo Trautwein, Joan Ferrer, Vincenzo Sabetta
  • Fan housing for a heat exchanger, particular for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 7811055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fan housing for an air-flow heat exchanger having a fan blower comprising an axial-flow fan and a drive motor, the blower being connected to the fan housing by struts and the struts having a cross-sectional profile with a front edge and a rear edge. It is proposed that the struts, particularly their front and/or their rear edges, be arranged in a spherical or spheroidal surface enveloping them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Stommel, Markus Höglinger
  • AIR CONDITIONING UNIT
    Publication number: 20100251749
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning unit (1), in particular for a stand-alone operation in a motor vehicle, comprising a compressor, condenser (3) and evaporator (2) that are situated in a coolant circuit, for cooling the air to be conditioned. According to the invention, the unit is equipped with a single fan (5) for the air that dissipates the heat and for the cooled air that is to be fed to the interior of the vehicle, said fan transporting part of the air through the condenser (3) and the other part through the evaporator (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Baruschke, Armin Britsch-Laudwein, Marion Britsch-Laudwein, Arthur Heberle
  • HEAT EXCHANGER
    Publication number: 20100243220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, particularly for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one duct (24-29) through which a fluid flows and of which at least some section have a curved shape. Preferably, said heat exchanger comprises several ducts through which a fluid flows and of which at least some sections have a curved shape. In order to increase the heat exchanging capacity, the duct (24-29) of which at least some sections have a curved shape is provided inside a profiled extruded element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Geskes, Juergen Barwig, Jens Ruckwied
  • Marburg I mutant of factor VII activating protease (FSAP) as risk factor for arterial thrombosis and methods of detecting FSAP and FSAP mutations
    Patent number: 7803569
    Abstract: An arterial thrombosis risk factor comprising one or more of the identified mutants of coagulation factor VII activating protease (FSAP) is described. In addition, diagnostic determination methods for detecting these mutants which are identified as risk factors are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: CSL Behring GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Kiechl, Johann Willeit, Christian Josef Wiedermann, Juergen Roemisch, Thomas Weimer, Annette Feussner, Hans-Arnold Stoehr, Volker Doersam, Wiegand Lang, Margret Becker, Claudia Nerlich, Gudrun Muth-Naumann, Bernd Knoblauch
  • Method and device for regulating a coolant circuit of a vehicle air conditioning system
    Patent number: 7788938
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regulating a coolant circuit (2) of a vehicle air conditioning system (4). According to said method, a target value (SW(VT)) for an evaporator temperature (VT) is predetermined in a base control circuit. Said value is used to determine a control value (U) for controlling the evaporator temperature (VT) by means of an evaporator temperature regulator (16). Said control value is also fed to a ventilator fan controller (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Baruschke, Armin Britsch-Laudwein, Karl Lochmahr
  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A TURBULENCE APPARATUS, APPARATUS FOR CARRYING OUT THE PROCESS, AND TURBULENCE APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20100218922
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a turbulence apparatus and to an apparatus for producing the turbulence apparatus which is to be held in at least one flow duct of a heat exchanger of a motor vehicle, comprising the following process steps: in a first process step, at least one shaping operation is used to produce at least one substantially meandering turbulence apparatus (30) with substantially smooth walls (2) from a substantially continuously planar sheet-metal strip (9), wherein a longitudinal direction (LR) of the walls (2) runs substantially parallel to a forward feed direction (VR) of the sheet-metal strip (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Paulik, Jürgen Hägele, Werner Oswald, Achim Utz
  • EXHAUST GAS COOLER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20100218914
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler for a motor vehicle is provided that includes a first collector box on an inlet side and a second collector box on an outlet side, and a plurality of exchanger tubes extending between the collector boxes for exhaust gas to flow through. Air can flow around the exchanger tubes so as to cool the exhaust gas. At least one supporting member is attached to at least one of the collector boxes, a force produced by the thermal expansion of the exchanger tubes being passed into the supporting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus IRMLER, Bernd KRAEMER
  • Soldered refrigerant condenser
    Patent number: 7784302
    Abstract: The invention relates to a soldered refrigerant condenser that consists of a heat exchange network with flat pipes and corrugated ribs, of collector pipes that fluidically communicate with the flat pipes, and of a collector (10) that is arranged in parallel to one of the collector pipes. Said collector accommodates a dryer and/or a filter (31) and fluidically communicates with the collector pipe via two overflow openings (13, 14). The dryer is configured by a chamber containing a drying agent (28) and limited by a section (18) of the collector (10, 11) and two endplates (23, 24) that extend through the cross-section of the collector (10, 11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignees: Behr France Hambach S.A.R.L., Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Jung, Sylvain Louis, Alain Maurer, Christian Michels, Gerrit Wölk
  • Circuit arrangement for the cooling of charge air and method for operation of such a circuit arrangement
    Patent number: 7779791
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement (K), with a low-temperature coolant circuit (1) for the cooling of charge air on a motor vehicle with a charging device, comprising a charge air/coolant cooler (2). A temperature sensor (4) is provided at the exit of the coolant from the charge air/coolant (2), or directly thereafter, for the measurement of the coolant exit temperature. The invention further relates to a method for operation of such a circuit arrangement (K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignees: Behr GmbH & Co. KG, Behr Thermot-Tronik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Holzbaur, Rolf Müller, Eberhard Pantow, Sarah Parmentier, Eike Willers
  • Heat exchanger, especially for an intercooler
    Patent number: 7775266
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, especially an intercooler for a motor vehicle. The heat exchanger comprises a box, a chamber in which a flowing medium is distributed and/or accumulated, a bundle of tubes, tubes, a tube base, openings, a housing lid, two lateral walls, a stabilizing element, a first receiving element, a first transmission element, a second receiving element, a second transmission element, a force transducing element and a flow guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marius Freitag, Georg Kämmler
  • DEVICE FOR COOLING WASTE GAS
    Publication number: 20100186397
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cooling waste gas, comprising an inlet area (1) for guiding a flow of waste gas, an outlet area (2) for discharging the optionally cooled waste gas, and a longitudinal housing (1) for receiving exchanging means (13) for heat exchange. The flow of waste gas flows through the exchanging means (13) on the way from the inlet area to the outlet area. The inlet area (2) and the outlet area (3) are arranged respectively on end areas of the housing (1) which are opposite in relation to the longitudinal direction. The flow of waste gas flows through the exchanging means (13) on a first flow path (16) and also on a second flow path (17) which is counter thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO.KG
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Timm Röschmann, Thomas Mitchell
  • Device for regulating an air flow for engine cooling
    Patent number: 7757643
    Abstract: A device for regulating an air flow for engine cooling, is disclosed herein with a fan element arranged over part of a heat exchanger face which can be traversed by air, and a covering element over a further part of the exchanger face, the covering element extending from the fan element up to an end of the exchanger face, and able to be at least partially selectively opened to allow air to flow through. A device providing an improved efficiency of the heat exchanger in at least one operating state of a motor vehicle is provided that is possible for a first opening section, which, in order to avoid excessive recirculation, is at a minimum distance from the fan element, the covering element is selectively opened and it is possible for at least one second opening section which substantially adjoins the fan element to be selectively opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Harich, Eberhard Pantow, Michael Spieth
  • COOLER ARRANGEMENT FOR A DRIVE TRAIN IN A MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20100170455
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooler arrangement for a drive train (21) in a motor vehicle (23). Said cooler arrangement comprises a first coolant circuit (3) with a first coolant cooler (7) as well as a second coolant circuit (5) with a second coolant cooler (9). The invention is characterized in that there is a connection between the first coolant circuit (3) and the second coolant circuit (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Georg Feldhaus, Eberhard Pantow
  • Modular heating and/or air conditioning system for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7748441
    Abstract: A heating or air conditioning system is used for a motor vehicle. The heating or air conditioning system may have a housing which is composed of several housing segments. At least one housing segment may be embodied as an insertion part which is inserted into the remaining housing after the remaining housing is mounted in the motor vehicle. The insertion part may have at least one functional module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Erich Litwing, Gebhard Schweizer, Jürgen Heilemann, Wolfgang Dieksander