Patents by Inventor Reinhard Kull

Reinhard Kull 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: 10436526
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a plate, a seal and a cover. The plate may have at least two receiving grooves having a respective groove base, an intermediate region disposed in a plane between a plurality of rim holes, and a ramp extending between the intermediate region and the respective groove base of the at least two receiving grooves. The seal extends in the at least two receiving grooves. The ramp may be rounded at a transition to the receiving grooves with a first radius and at a transition to the intermediate region with a second radius, and the ramp may be inclined between 20°<?<65° relative to the intermediate region or has an S-shaped progression. An inflection point of the plate may be arranged in a region from 10% to 80% of a height difference between the intermediate region and the respective groove base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Harald Bronner, Markus Gutjahr, Markus Huebsch, Claus Augenstein, Reinhard Kull, Stefan Weise, Jens Ruckwied, Jochen Haeussermann
  • Publication number: 20160320148
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a plate, a seal and a cover. The plate may have at least two receiving grooves having a respective groove base, an intermediate region disposed in a plane between a plurality of rim holes, and a ramp extending between the intermediate region and the respective groove base of the at least two receiving grooves. The seal extends in the at least two receiving grooves. The ramp may be rounded at a transition to the receiving grooves with a first radius and at a transition to the intermediate region with a second radius, and the ramp may be inclined between 20°<?<65° relative to the intermediate region or has an S-shaped progression. An inflection point of the plate may be arranged in a region from 10% to 80% of a height difference between the intermediate region and the respective groove base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: MAHLE BEHR GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Bronner, Markus Gutjahr, Markus Huebsch, Claus Augenstein, Reinhard Kull, Stefan Weise, Jens Ruckwied, Jochen Haeussermann
  • Patent number: 7896065
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for motor vehicles, especially for utility vehicles. The heat exchanger can include a heat exchanger unit that includes tubes having tube ends and ribs disposed between the tubes, and collecting tanks disposed on both ends and produced by internal high pressure forming for introducing and discharging a medium. The collecting tanks can include bottoms with openings for receiving the tube ends, covers, and inlet and outlet tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Claus Augenstein, Karsten Emrich, Martin Engelhardt, Klaus Förster, Franco Ghiani, Daniel Hendrix, Scott Horoho, Reinhard Kull, Andre Schairer, Bernd Weiler, Stefan Weise
  • Patent number: 7413005
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, especially a charge air cooler (5) for motor vehicles. Said heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange block which is constituted of flat tubes (6) having flat tube ends and ribs (7) and tube bottoms (8) having ventilation passages (9) in which the flat tube ends are received and welded together. The heat exchanger also comprises collecting tanks that can be placed on the tube bottoms (8) and means for deflecting the flow in the feed section of the flat tube ends. The inventive heat exchanger is characterized in that the means for deflecting flow (deflection means 2) and means for reinforcing the flat tube ends (reinforcing means) are configured as an integrated structural component (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Heine, Reinhard Kull
  • Publication number: 20070163751
    Abstract: The invention relates to a metal side-plate (12) for a radiator, particularly a tubular radiator, such as those used in motor vehicles with combustion engines. The aim of the invention is to provide a meal side-plate (12) which is embodied in such a way that stresses arising from various types of thermal expansion of the metal side-plate (12) and tubular radiator (10) can be prevented. The metal side-plates (12) are characterized in that they have a weakened area (13) in which the material of the metal side-plate is weakened in order to compensate heat expansion according to that of the cooling body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Sinan Balci, Reinhard Kull
  • Publication number: 20070144718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, especially a charge air cooler (5) for motor vehicles. Said heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange block which is constituted of flat tubes (6) having flat tube ends and ribs (7) and tube bottoms (8) having ventilation passages (9) in which the flat tube ends are received and welded together. The heat exchanger also comprises collecting tanks that can be placed on the tube bottoms (8) and means for deflecting the flow in the feed section of the flat tube ends. The inventive heat exchanger is characterized in that the means for deflecting flow (deflection means 2) and means for reinforcing the flat tube ends (reinforcing means) are configured as an integrated structural component (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Heine, Reinhard Kull
  • Publication number: 20070114013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for motor vehicles, especially for utility vehicles. Said heat exchanger comprises a heat exchanger unit (2), constituted of tubes (5) having tube ends and ribs (6) disposed between said tubes (5), and collecting tanks (3, 4), disposed on both ends and produced by internal high pressure forming for introducing and discharging a medium. Said collecting tanks (3, 4) comprise bottoms with openings for receiving the tube ends, covers and inlet and outlet tubes (7, 11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Claus Augenstein, Karsten Emrich, Martin Engelhardt, Klaus Forster, Franco Ghiani, Daniel Hendrix, Scott Horoho, Reinhard Kull, Andre Schairer, Bernd Weiler, Stefan Weise
  • Publication number: 20060048922
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow
  • Patent number: 6957689
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow
  • Publication number: 20050006066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, preferably a charge-air cooler for motor vehicles, comprising: first members defining a plurality of passageways for guiding a first fluid in heat exchange relationship with a second fluid flowing over the outside of the members defining the passageways, and at least one second member forming a part of the heat exchanger structure in contact with either the first or second fluid, wherein at least one of the first members and the second member is comprised of a steel strip bearing at least one surface layer of aluminum and/or a brazing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Reinhard Kull, Cord Volker
  • Patent number: 6837194
    Abstract: The motor vehicle cooling system (10) contains a fan (12) with which at least one cooler (13) is associated. Provision is made for the fan (12) to be in the form of a centrifugal blower with an air guiding housing (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Matthias Banzhaf, Wolfgang Kramer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow, Wolfgang Reeb, Annegret Tillmann
  • Publication number: 20030106669
    Abstract: A heat exchange arrangement for a vehicle has at least two heat exchangers exposed to the action of ambient air. One of the heat exchanger is coolant cooler and the other one is a charge-air coolant. Each of these coolers has tubes through which liquid or gas flows and heat dissipating ribs connected to the tubes. The coolant cooler is positioned upstream of the charge-air cooler in the air-flow direction. The charge-air cooler has an overlapping region in which the coolant cooler and the charge-air cooler overlap one another and a non-overlapping region in which the coolant cooler projects substantially perpendicularly to the cooling air flow direction. The non-overlapping region is formed at least in the charge-air outlet region and is cooled directly by ambient cooling air. The overlapping region is cooled by the ambient cooling air that has passed through the coolant cooler, which is positioned immediately upstream of the overlapping region of the charge-air cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Peter Ambros, Peter Griesheimer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow
  • Publication number: 20030047151
    Abstract: The motor vehicle cooling system (10) contains a fan (12) with which at least one cooler (13) is associated. Provision is made for the fan (12) to be in the form of a centrifugal blower with an air guiding housing (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & CO.
    Inventors: Matthias Banzhaf, Wolfgang Kramer, Reinhard Kull, Eberhard Pantow, Wolfgang Reeb, Annegret Tillmann
  • Patent number: 5931219
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger comprises a plurality of heat exchanger plates stacked one above the other. The plates each have a peripheral edge projecting from its plate plane. The heat exchanger plates succeeding one another in each case are sealingly connected at their edges, so that flow ducts for at least two heat exchange media form between the plates. Each of these flow ducts is connected via openings in the heat exchanger plates to at least one other flow duct, so that a first heat exchange medium can flow through a first group of ducts loaded in parallel and a second heat exchange medium can flow through another group. So that a heat exchanger constructed in this way offers a satisfactory heat transmission capacity even in the case of widely varying volume flows of the media involved, the openings for the first heat exchange medium have a substantially larger cross section than the openings for the second heat exchange medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Reinhard Kull, Gebhard Schwarz
  • Patent number: 4997033
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling the cooling water and the charge air of an internal combustion engine, comprising an air-to-water cooler for the cooling water and an air-to-water cooler for cooling the compressed charge air, the air-to-air cooler being arranged in the air-flow direction, preferably in front of the air-to-water cooler, and the air-to-water cooler having lateral fixing projections and/or recesses for fixing to a supporting frame, in particular of a vehicle, wherein the air-to-water cooler has additional fixing means for the air-to-air cooler in which the latter, with allocated projections, is hung in place and held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Sueddeutsche Kuehlerfabrik Julius Fr. Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franco Ghiani, Reinhard Kull