Patents by Inventor Rainer Gluck

Rainer Gluck has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10317144
    Abstract: A heat exchanger from a stack of plate pairs having fins which are disposed between the plate pairs, and having ducts which vertically extend through the stack, for conveying in and/or conveying out a medium which flows through the plate pairs and which exchanges heat with another medium which flows through the fins, wherein the ducts are formed from openings in the plates and have moldings which extend around opening peripheries, and having a plate, having corresponding openings, which finishes off the stack, wherein a thermally decoupling element, which is inserted either in an integrated or a separate manner and which is incorporated into the vertical duct formation, is disposed between the finishing-off plate and the stack. Such a heat exchanger displays improved resilience to alternating temperature loadings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventors: Rainer Glück, Klaus Kalbacher, Michael Daniel
  • Patent number: 9909812
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a heat exchanger, for example an indirect air cooler, in which the air, for example compressed charge air for an internal combustion engine, is cooled, for example by a fluid, wherein the heat exchanger is constructed from stacked pairs of plates. The exemplary fluid can be conducted into an inlet region and/or outlet region of the plate pairs in at least one flow path approximately in the direction of the common edge, and further through at least a first duct approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and passes further through the plate pairs over the largest heat exchange area of the plate pairs approximately in countercurrent with respect to the air, in order to flow through at least one second duct, approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and back to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Thomas Peskos, Rainer Glück
  • Patent number: 9709342
    Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement in a housing, such as an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine, has at least one stack including tubes and fins and an end plate having media connections, and wherein the stack is inserted into the housing and is fastened therein. A connecting block which contains the media connections and/or at least one profiled rail is arranged on the end plate. The housing has at least one cross-section-expanding wall graduation and/or at least one receptacle integrated into the housing wall, wherein the connecting block sits in the cross-section expansion and/or a cross section of the receptacle corresponds approximately to a cross section of the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Marius Dornseif, Klaus Kalbacher, Rainer Glück
  • Patent number: 9671168
    Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement, for example for an internal combustion engine, having a brazed radiator block (1) which has flow paths (10) formed from pairs of plates and has flow ducts (3) between the plate pairs (P), wherein in each case at least one plate (11) of each plate pair has a plate elongation (12), and wherein the brazed radiator block is arranged in a housing (2) and, at its circumference, is sealed off with respect to the housing. To improve the sealing action between the radiator block (1) and the housing (2), it is provided according to the invention that the plate elongations (12) are formed such that a prescribed dimension of the brazed radiator block (1) can be set by means of deformation of the plate elongations (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Rainer Glück
  • Publication number: 20150241128
    Abstract: A heat exchanger from a stack of plate pairs having fins which are disposed between the plate pairs, and having ducts which vertically extend through the stack, for conveying in and/or conveying out a medium which flows through the plate pairs and which exchanges heat with another medium which flows through the fins, wherein the ducts are formed from openings in the plates and have moldings which extend around opening peripheries, and having a plate, having corresponding openings, which finishes off the stack, wherein a thermally decoupling element, which is inserted either in an integrated or a separate manner and which is incorporated into the vertical duct formation, is disposed between the finishing-off plate and the stack. Such a heat exchanger displays improved resilience to alternating temperature loadings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Rainer Glück, Klaus Kalbacher, Michael Daniel
  • Publication number: 20150129183
    Abstract: A heat exchanger having a cooler block including a stack of plates arranged in plate pairs. The cooler block defines flow paths and flow ducts and has an outer circumference. At least some of the plate pairs include a bent edge having an elongation, the elongation on one plate pair in the stack extending to the next plate pair in the stack such that a substantially smooth contour of the cooler block is formed in at least one circumferential region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Peskos, Eugen Auerbach, Wolfgang Schatz-Knecht, Thomas Eckert, Rainer Glück
  • Publication number: 20150068717
    Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement, for example for an internal combustion engine, having a brazed radiator block (1) which has flow paths (10) formed from pairs of plates and has flow ducts (3) between the plate pairs (P), wherein in each case at least one plate (11) of each plate pair has a plate elongation (12), and wherein the brazed radiator block is arranged in a housing (2) and, at its circumference, is sealed off with respect to the housing. To improve the sealing action between the radiator block (1) and the housing (2), it is provided according to the invention that the plate elongations (12) are formed such that a prescribed dimension of the brazed radiator block (1) can be set by means of deformation of the plate elongations (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Rainer Glück
  • Publication number: 20150047818
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a heat exchanger, for example an indirect air cooler, in which the air, for example compressed charge air for an internal combustion engine, is cooled, for example by a fluid, wherein the heat exchanger is constructed from stacked pairs of plates. The exemplary fluid can be conducted into an inlet region and/or outlet region of the plate pairs in at least one flow path approximately in the direction of the common edge, and further through at least a first duct approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and passes further through the plate pairs over the largest heat exchange area of the plate pairs approximately in countercurrent with respect to the air, in order to flow through at least one second duct, approximately in cross current with respect to the exemplary air, and back to the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Thomas Peskos, Rainer Glück
  • Publication number: 20140224458
    Abstract: A heat exchanger arrangement in a housing, such as an intake pipe of an internal combustion engine, has at least one stack including tubes and fins and an end plate having media connections, and wherein the stack is inserted into the housing and is fastened therein. A connecting block which contains the media connections and/or at least one profiled rail is arranged on the end plate. The housing has at least one cross-section-expanding wall graduation and/or at least one receptacle integrated into the housing wall, wherein the connecting block sits in the cross-section expansion and/or a cross section of the receptacle corresponds approximately to a cross section of the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Inventors: Marius Dornseif, Klaus Kalbacher, Rainer Glück
  • Publication number: 20080216987
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular, an oil cooler for motor vehicles, constructed from trough-shaped heat exchanger plates which are stacked into one another and from turbulence inserts, having two openings for one medium and two further openings for another medium in order to form collecting ducts for the supply and discharge of the media, with flow ducts for the media being formed between the heat exchanger plates. The heat exchanger also includes flow ducts connected to the associated collecting ducts, an upper closure plate which has convexities in the region of the collecting tanks, and an intermediate plate which is provided with holes. The intermediate plate is arranged between the closure plate and the uppermost heat exchanger plate, and one of the holes, formed as a pressure equalizing opening, interacts with the upwardly aligned convexity in the closure plate to improve the internal pressure stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Sven Thumm, Rainer Gluck, Christine Vohl, Ulrich Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20070289724
    Abstract: A heat exchanger according to some embodiments includes heat exchanger plates stacked one inside the other and each having a trough-shaped edge, flow ducts located between the heat exchanger plates for heat-exchanging media, feed ducts and discharge ducts, and an attachment plate having openings for feeding and discharging the media through the attachment plate. In some embodiments, a multipart attachment plate is provided, wherein a bottom heat exchanger plate lies on an attachment plate, and another overlying attachment plate has a cutout having an edge shaped to lie against the trough-shaped edge of the bottom heat exchanger plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Erik Hoof, Rainer Gluck
  • Publication number: 20060108095
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger including a stack of heat exchanger plates and at least one connection plate having at least one opening with a flange extending from the plate around the opening, and a connector connecting a heat exchange medium to the connection plate opening for supplying the medium to or discharging the medium from the heat exchanger, wherein the connector is an injection-molded plastic part and the flange has crenellate protrusions which are deformed to mechanically fasten the connector to the closure plate. A reduced wall thickness defines a seat in the connection plate around the flange, and a seal is between the flange and the connection edge. The connector may have a cross-section at its connection to a supply or discharge line which is wider than the cross-section at the connection edge, and a seal is between the connector and the line in the wider cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventor: Rainer Gluck
  • Publication number: 20040177950
    Abstract: A stacked plate heat exchanger is provided. The stacked plate heat exchanger includes a first end plate having an integrated connector. The connector has a first cross sectional plane at a first port and a second cross sectional plane at a second port with the first and second cross sectional planes forming an acute angle with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: Modine Manufacturing Co.
    Inventor: Rainer Gluck
  • Patent number: 6152434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a support for articles such as ceiling slabs, roof battens, machine parts or the like. The support comprises at least two telescopic tubes or one telescopic eod in at least one tube. A first tube or the rod can be displaced by a first distance in relation to the second tube, and devices are provided to convey the first tube or the rod a further distance in relation to the second tube. Stopping devices for the tube(s) and the rod are also provided in relation to each other and end stops are provided on the tubes, or the rod, the devices for further conveyance of the first tube or the rod comprising a ratchet, rack, clamping bracket or the like which are provided with manual advance devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Inventor: Rainer Gluck