Audi Ag

Jing Che

Hans Hammer

Predrag Hrnjak

Stefan Elbel

Andrew Musser

An evaporator in a refrigerant circuit, having a bottom-side inlet chamber which is connected in flow terms to an evaporator outlet side via evaporator tubes, a separator being integrated into the evaporator inlet chamber, in which separator a refrigerant which is expanded in an expansion member is divided as a two-phase liquid/vapour mixture into a vapour phase and into a liquid phase which is separate therefrom, the vapour phase being conducted via a bypass line to the evaporator outlet side, and the liquid phase being conducted counter to the direction of gravity into the evaporator tubes, wherein at least one evaporator tube being a flat tube with a plurality of micro-channels, through which the refrigerant is guided.

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Champaign, IL, United States of America

Jing Che