Abstract: A heat exchanger, includes: a core portion; a first flow path which is provided in the core portion and through which a first fluid flows; and a second flow path which is provided in the core portion and through which a second fluid flows. The first fluid flowing through the first flow path and the second fluid flowing through the second flow path exchange heat through a partition in the core portion. The first flow path includes: a plurality of main flow paths; an introducing chamber; and a discharge chamber. The main flow path includes: an introducing side shape changing section in which a certain flow path is connected in a straight shape to the main flow path adjacent thereto; and a discharge side shape changing section in which the certain flow path is connected in a straight shape to the main flow path adjacent thereto.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a housing. The housing defines a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet opposing the refrigerant inlet, at least one coolant inlet, and at least one coolant outlet. A gyroid structure is disposed within the housing. The gyroid structure defines a set of refrigerant channels that direct refrigerant through the gyroid structure, a first set of coolant channels that direct coolant through a first region of the gyroid structure, and a second set of coolant channels that direct coolant fluid through a second region of the gyroid structure. A valve is disposed within the refrigerant inlet. The valve is configured to direct refrigerant fluid to at least one of the first region and the second region of the gyroid structure.

Abstract: A heat exchanger of an electrically driven motor vehicle, which includes a tube/rib block having a multiplicity of tubes and having a multiplicity of ribs. The tubes being arranged essentially in parallel to each other and spaced a distance apart, and the ribs each being arranged between two adjacent tubes. The ribs touching the two adjacent tubes, at least one manifold being arranged on one of the sides of the tube/rib block for the purpose of supplying fluid to tubes of the tube/rib block and for removing fluid from tubes of the tube/rib block. A cover device is arranged downstream and/or upstream from the tube/rib block for controlling the air flow through the tube/rib block temporarily or in certain regions for the defined removal of water from the tube/rib block. A method for operating a heat exchanger is also provided.

Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.

Abstract: An electric vehicle thermal management system, comprising a water tank (1), a liquid-gas separator (2), a four-way valve (3), a first water pump (4), a second water pump (5), a battery water jacket (6), an electric appliance water jacket (7) which is simultaneously used for a voltage converter (71) and a vehicle-mounted charger (72), a radiator (8), a heat exchanger main body (91) of a battery cooler (9), an electric motor controller water jacket (10) and/or an electric motor water jacket (11). The four-way valve (3) comprises a first valve port, a second valve port, a third valve port and a fourth valve port. An outlet of the radiator (8) and the water tank (1) are both in communication with the first valve port. The second valve port, the heat exchanger main body (91), the liquid-gas separator (2), the first water pump (4), the battery water jacket (6).

Abstract: A fluid cleaning apparatus including: a first volume comprising a first inlet through which a first fluid is introduced and a first outlet through which the first fluid is discharged; a second volume comprising a second inlet through which a second fluid is introduced and a second outlet through which the second fluid is discharged; and a rotating wheel which is provided with a filter for filtering the first fluid, and rotatably positioned within the first volume and the second volume in a direction perpendicular to a flow direction of the first fluid or the second fluid, wherein foreign matter filtered while the first fluid passes through the filter in the first volume is discharged through the second outlet while the second fluid passes through the filter in the second volume, as the rotating wheel rotates.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electric heater of a vehicular heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes turning on the electric heater; determining whether an ambient air temperature of a vehicle is higher than or equal to a threshold ambient air temperature, and a battery temperature is lower than or equal to a threshold battery temperature; determining whether battery efficiency is lower than or equal to threshold efficiency when the ambient air temperature of the vehicle is higher than or equal to the threshold ambient air temperature, and the battery temperature is lower than or equal to the threshold battery temperature; and turning off the electric heater when the battery efficiency is lower than or equal to the threshold efficiency, wherein the electric heater is configured to receive electric energy from the battery.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a partition wall that separates two fluids having different temperatures. A plurality of grooves having a depth of 100 ?m to 400 ?m are formed in a thickness direction of the partition wall on a first wall surface of the partition wall which is a surface on a side in contact with a fluid of the two fluids that has a lower heat transfer coefficient.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device for thermoelectric storage that may include main pressurized tanks that may contain hydraulic fluid, propellant fluid, and liquid communications. Further, the pressurized tanks may be equipped with hydroelectric conversion assemblies and heat exchange systems. In some embodiments, the device may include mobile physical separations between fluids, hot or cold thermal reserves, and secondary tanks equipped with pipes.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a header having a longitudinal axis, a first plurality of microchannel tubes coupled to the header, where each microchannel tube of the first plurality of microchannel tubes has a first width, and a second plurality of microchannel tubes coupled to the header, where each microchannel tube of the second plurality of microchannel tubes has a second width greater than the first width.

Abstract: A battery chiller for a vehicle includes a housing having a first inlet, a second inlet opposing the first inlet, a first outlet having a toroid structure surrounding the second inlet, and a second outlet having a toroid structure surrounding the first inlet. A lattice is disposed within the housing defining a first plurality of channels and a second plurality of channels. The lattice defines a first inlet duct in fluid communication with the first inlet and the first channels, and a second inlet duct in fluid communication with the second inlet and the second channels. A first flow path is defined from the first inlet, through the first inlet duct, through the first plurality of channels and to the first outlet, and a second flow path is defined from the second inlet, through the second inlet duct, through the second plurality of channels and to the second outlet.

Abstract: Provided is a cold plate that can improve cooling efficiency and simultaneously suppress an increase in size in the thickness direction. A heat-transfer-medium flow space 2 is formed between a heat dissipation surface of a base plate and a cover plate, the base plate has a plurality of heat transfer portions 14 that are provided so as protrude from the heat dissipation surface toward the cover plate 20 and that transfer, to a heat-transfer medium flowing through the heat-transfer-medium flow space 2, heat released from the heat dissipation surface, and concave portions 22, into which at least a portion of tips of the plurality of heat transfer portions 14 are inserted, are formed in a surface of the cover plate facing the heat-transfer-medium flow space.

Abstract: A vehicle having: at least one electric drive system; a battery; a passenger compartment; an air conditioning system to air-condition the passenger compartment and provided with at least one heat exchanger; a first thermoregulation circuit configured to have the fluid flow through the drive system; a second thermoregulation circuit configured to have the fluid flow through the battery; a third thermoregulation circuit configured to have the fluid flow through the heat exchanger; an electric heater, which is arranged along the third thermoregulation circuit and can be operated in order to heat the fluid flowing in the third thermoregulation circuit; and at least one solenoid valve movable between an isolation position, in which the fluid flowing through the first thermoregulation circuit does not flow through the third thermoregulation circuit, and a connection position, in which the fluid flowing through the first thermoregulation circuit also flows through the third thermoregulation circuit.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a housing. A first cooling block is defined within the housing. The first cooling block includes a coolant inlet, a refrigerant inlet, and a first gyroid structure that defines a first set of coolant channels and a first set of refrigerant channels. A second cooling block is defined within the housing. The second cooling block includes a coolant outlet, a refrigerant outlet, and a second gyroid structure that defines a second set of coolant channels and a second set of refrigerant channels. A perforated barrier plate is interposed between the first cooling block and the second cooling block. The first set of coolant channels is in fluid communication with the second set of coolant channels via perforations in the barrier plate. The first set of refrigerant channels is in fluid communication with the second set of refrigerant channels via perforations in the barrier plate.

Abstract: A fluid dispensing apparatus may be used to dispense a fluid from a container that is under pressure and that has a pierceable membrane. The fluid dispensing apparatus may include a valve body having a bore, an adaptor having a bore and a piercing member, and a nozzle having a bore. The fluid dispensing apparatus may be operable to pierce the pierceable membrane to communicate the fluid within the container with the adaptor bore and with the valve body bore. The nozzle may be operable to permit the fluid to flow under the pressure out of the container, through the adaptor bore, through the valve body bore and through the nozzle bore to ambient.

Abstract: A heat exchanger unit according to the present invention includes a sensible heat exchanger including a sensible heat exchange pipe disposed in a sensible heat exchange area for heating water used for heating by receiving sensible heat generated by a combustion reaction, wherein the sensible heat exchange pipe receives the water used for heating and flows same through the interior, and a sensible heat fin disposed in the sensible heat exchange area. The sensible heat fin is formed in a plate shape across the sensible heat exchange pipe and penetrated by the sensible heat exchange pipe; and a latent heat exchanger positioned downstream from the sensible heat exchange area on the basis of a reference direction, which is a flow direction of combustion gas generated during the combustion reaction, the latent heat exchanger including a latent heat exchange pipe disposed in a latent heat exchange area.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for a vehicle configured to perform heat exchange between coolant and refrigerant includes: a plurality of stacked plates sequentially stacked to form a plurality of refrigerant spaces filled with the refrigerant and a plurality of coolant spaces filled with the coolant; a thermal expansion valve disposed in the vicinity of the plurality of the stacked plates; and a connection block disposed between the thermal expansion valve and the plurality of stacked plates. The connection block comprises a refrigerant inlet passage for introducing the refrigerant introduced through the thermal expansion valve into the plurality of the stacked plates and a refrigerant discharge passage for introducing the refrigerant discharged from the plurality of the stacked plates into the thermal expansion valve.

Abstract: A PCM heat sink comprises a thermally conductive body member having a plurality of PCM-receiving bores defined therein from at last one surface thereof. A plurality of pre-cast PCM rods are disposed in respective bores have a phase change temperature from solid to liquid at or just below a specified maximum operating temperature. A plurality of sealing members is disposed in respective bores to seal the rods in the bores. The sealing members may be plugs or thin disc-like lids that are brazed, welded or otherwise secured to the body member at the bore openings.

Abstract: A collector of a heat exchanger for a vehicle, which collector has numerous recesses for projections on a tube sheet that are pressed into the recesses as part of a crimp connection, and wherein the recesses have at least one platform which is spaced apart from at least one edge of the recess in such a way that a free space is created. A heat exchanger for a vehicle, which heat exchanger has a tube sheet with projections that adjoin openings and are pressed into recesses of a collector, and wherein at least one opening edge, which is adjacent to an opening edge that is directly adjacent to the projection, is bent out of the plane of the opening.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a micro-channel heat exchanger including two collecting pipes, and a plurality of flat pipes and two side plates that are arranged between the two collecting pipes, wherein the two side plates are located on two outer sides of the flat pipes and are defined as a first side plate and a second side plate respectively; fins are respectively arranged between the first side plate and the adjacent flat pipe and between the second side plate and the adjacent flat pipe; and the outer side of the first side plate and/or the second side plate is provided with a blocking part at a position close to the collecting pipe, and the blocking part can prevent composite material on the collecting pipe from flowing to a middle part of the first side plate and/or the second side plate.