Abstract: A heater comprises a casing, which has an interior chamber. It further comprises a rotor, which is formed as an impeller on the one hand and as an eddy-current disk on the other, and a magnet support, which is equipped with permanent magnets and disposed non-rotarily in the casing and which is displaceable into an operating position in the direct neighborhood of the eddy-current disk and into a position of rest spaced therefrom. The eddy-current disk and the magnet support equipped with permanent magnets are rinsed by water.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 21, 1999
Date of Patent:
June 26, 2001
Assignees:
Audi AG, Rota System AG
Inventors:
Hans-Jürgen Bauer, Bernhard Teufel, Günter Kilian, Andreas Bilek