Behr Gmbh Co. Kg

Mahle International Gmbh

Behr Gmbh & Co.

Mahle Behr Gmbh & Co. Kg

Emitec Gesellschaft Fuer Emissionstechnologie Mbh

Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v

Behr Thermot-tronik Gmbh

Emitec Gesellschaft Fur Emissionstechnologie Mbh

Mahle Behr Kornwestheim Gmbh

Peter Geskes

Michael Schmidt

Eberhard Pantow

Jens Ruckwied

Klaus Irmler

Ulrich Maucher

Michael Moser

Georg Votteler

Juergen Barwig

Herbert Damsohn

Conrad Pfender

Hans-Ulrich Steurer

Joachim Treier

Bernd Grünenwald

Klaus Luz

Tobias Fetzer

Rolf Brück

Michael Kohl

Kurt Molt

Wolfgang Seewald

Gottfried Duerr

Dieter Heinle

Dirk Neumeister

Daniel Hendrix

Rainer Lutz

Wolfgang Knödler

Steffen Brunner

Jens Richter

Thomas Heckenberger

Christian Saumweber

Martin G Bauer

Thomas Kalmbach

Hans-Peter Klein

Jens Holdenried

Gerd Schleier

Stefan Neher

Oliver Grill

Horst-Michael Prasser

Emil Neumann

Claudia Lang

Jürgen Barwig

Mario Wallisch

Johannes Diem

Andre Loges

Albrecht Siegel

Heinz Czemmel

Martin Schindler

Jochen Eitel

Andreas Kleber

Achim Herber

Jörg Digele

Simon Hund

Friedrich Brotz

Holger Brehm

Christian Domes

Frank Von Lützau

Markus Eck

Andreas Scheeder

Franz Ott

Andreas Lelster

Christian Rebinger

Daniel Schwaderer

Harald Müller

Norbert Kossok

Dirk Stadelhofer

Peter Schuetz

Christian Faber

Martin Kaemmerer

Wolfgang Bucher

Arthur Strehlau

Bernd Spitznagel

Markus Flik

Andreas Thumm

Thomas Himmer

David Mercader Quintana

Timm Röschmann

Philipp Hetz

Wolfgang Wehrstedt

Klaus Haßdenteufel

Florian Pfister

Frank Von LÜTZAU

Ulrich Dr-Ing Maucher

Martin Kämmerer

Dipl-Ing Martin Dipl-Ing Martin Bauer

Stefan Dipl-Ing Neher

Conrad Dr-Ing Pfender

Klaus Dipl-Ing Luz

Herbert Dr-Ing Damsohn

Daphne Strahl-SCHÄFER

Wolfgang Dipl-Ing Knödler

Steffen Dipl-Ing Brunner

Michael Dipl-Ing Schmidt

Michele Dipl-Ing Monnier

Roland Dipl-Phys Burk

Martin Bauer

An accumulator may include a housing with at least two mutually opposite housing walls, accumulator cells arranged between the housing walls and following one another in a stacking direction, and at least one intermediate piece arranged in the housing between at least one of the accumulator cells and one of the housing walls and that retains the accumulator cells in the housing. At least one intermediate piece may be configured as a mutable intermediate piece in such a way that the mutable intermediate piece may be changeable between a first state having a first thickness extending in a spacing direction between the associated housing wall and the associated at least one of the accumulator cells, and a second state having a second thickness extending in the spacing direction, wherein the second thickness may be greater than the first thickness. In the state in which the mutable intermediate piece and the accumulator cells may be arranged in the housing, the mutable intermediate piece may be changed into the second state.

Accumulator

An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a tube bundle and a housing through which a coolant is flowable. The tube bundle may include a plurality of exhaust gas-conducting tubes held in a first tube base and a second tube base. The housing may enclose the tube bundle and may have face ends delimited by the first tube base and the second tube base. The housing may include a coolant inlet arranged in a region of the second tube base and a coolant outlet arranged in a region of the first tube base such that the coolant flows in counter flow relative to the exhaust gas. A plurality of coolant bypass passages may be arranged between the tube bundle and the housing. At least a subset of the plurality of coolant bypass passages may be at least partly blocked by an inlay structured and arranged to steer a coolant flow.

Exhaust gas heat exchanger

An accumulator arrangement for a hybrid or electric vehicle may include a plurality of battery cells stacked in a stacking direction to form at least one battery block, and a housing including a support frame limiting the housing towards an outside on four sides. The support frame may include at least two longitudinal members and at least two cross members perpendicularly aligned with one another. At least one longitudinal member of the at least two longitudinal members may be configured to conduct a coolant. The at least one battery block may abut against at least one of (i) the at least one longitudinal member and (ii) at least one of the at least two cross members to transfer heat. A plurality of connection points of the at least one longitudinal member, through which the coolant is flowable, may be configured on an outside of the support frame.

Accumulator arrangement

An accumulator arrangement for a hybrid or electric vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells which are stacked in a stacking direction to form at least one battery block. The at least one battery block is arranged in a housing of the accumulator arrangement. A cooling device includes a cooling plate arranged on one side on the battery block and extending parallel to the stacking direction. On the at least one cooling plate at least one cover plate with at least one cooling channel through which a coolant can flow is secured, facing away from the at least one battery block. The cooling plate forms an outer contour of the fluid-tight housing. The at least one cooling channel of the cover plate is open towards the at least one cooling plate and is closed by the at least one cooling plate.

A heat exchanger, in particular a charge air cooler or an exhaust gas cooler for an internal combustion engine, comprising a plurality of essentially parallel tubes and at least one collector box on the output side, the tubes each emptying into the collector box on the output side, and a gas flow flowing from the tubes into the collector box and from the collector box into an outlet of the collector box, a structure for interacting with the gas flow being provided at least one of the tubes or collector box, a condensation being transported to the outlet with the aid of the structure.

Heat exchanger

An exhaust gas system for a motor vehicle may include an exhaust gas aftertreatment device communicating fluidically with an exhaust gas evaporation device. The exhaust gas aftertreatment device and the exhaust gas evaporation device may be arranged in one or more housings. A connecting line may be provided to fluidically connect the exhaust gas aftertreatment device to the exhaust gas evaporation device. The connecting line may include a fluid inlet connected to the exhaust gas aftertreatment device and a fluid outlet connected to the exhaust gas evaporation device. An evaporation bypass line may branch off from the connection line at a branching-off point. A valve apparatus may be arranged in at least the connecting line and may be adjustable between a first position to fluidly connect the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet, and a second position to fluidly connect the fluid inlet to the evaporator bypass line.

Exhaust gas system for a motor vehicle

The application relates to a system for using the waste heat of an internal combustion engine through the Clausius-Rankine cycle. Such system prevents operating medium from the Clausius-Rankine cycle from leaking into combustion air or exhaust air. The system has a first flow channel formed by at least one first limiting component and a second flow channel formed by at least one second limiting component. The system has a fluid-conducting connection to the surroundings or to a receiving chamber from the first limiting component and preferably from the second limiting component, so that in the event of a leak the operating medium is conducted into the surroundings or into the receiving chamber.

System for using the waste heat of an internal combustion engine

A heat exchanger may include a gas conduit flowable through by a predetermined gas and a heat conduit flowable through by a predetermined fluid compound working fluid. The heat conduit may be in thermal communication with the gas conduit. The heat exchanger may include a first section having a first section length, a second section having a second section length, and a third section having a third section length. The gas conduit may span, in a direction of flow of the gas, the first section, the second section, and the third section. The heat conduit may span, in a direction of flow of the working fluid, the third section, the first section, and the second section. The first section may include a gas inlet and the third section may include a working fluid inlet and a gas outlet. The section may include a working fluid outlet.

The invention relates to an exhaust gas heat exchanger () with a housing (), in which a tube bundle () with multiple tubes () is held via headers (), wherein in the tubes () a first flow path for exhaust gas () and between the tubes () and the housing () a second flow path for coolant () runs, wherein the first longitudinal ends of the individual tubes () of the tube bundle () are incorporated in a first header () in a fixed manner, in particular welded or brazed. It is substantial to the invention that at least one of the tubes () is axially moveable in the region of a second longitudinal end relative to the second header () and captive therein.

Exhaust gas heat transfer device

An exhaust gas heat exchanger, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, having at least one first flow channel that conducts a first fluid, which first flow channel is accommodated in respective tube sheets at end areas of the first flow channel. A housing surrounds the first flow channel and forms a second flow channel for a second fluid that flows through the housing and flows around the first flow channel. Pipe sheets are inserted into the housing such that the first flow channel is sealed off from the second flow channel. A first diffuser conducts the first fluid into the first flow channel and a second diffuser conducts the first fluid out of the first flow channel. A first shielding element has a first passage and a first spacing element is placed onto a tube sheet from the side facing away from the first flow channel.

An internal combustion engine may include a housing and at least one cavity arranged therein for receiving a coolant flow. An exhaust gas cooler may be provided for cooling an exhaust gas flow. The exhaust gas cooler may be configured as a stacked disc cooler including at least two stacking discs, an exhaust gas inlet, a cover plate and a screw-mounting plate for screw-mounting to the housing. The exhaust gas cooler may protrude into the cavity of the housing when the screw-mounting plate is mounted to the housing. The screw-mounting plate may have a spacer element disposed at the exhaust gas inlet. The spacer element may protrude in a direction of the at least two stacking discs and enlarge a distance between the screw-mounting plate and an adjacent stacking disc of the at least two stacking discs to position the exhaust gas cooler further into the cavity.

Internal combustion engine

A device for the exchange of heat between a first and a second medium with pairs of trays stacked one on top of the other in a stacking direction is provided, wherein a first flow chamber that can be flowed through by a first medium is provided between the two trays of at least one pair of trays or several pairs of trays and a second flow chamber that can be flowed through by a second medium is provided between two pairs of trays adjacent to one another, wherein the first flow chamber has first flow path with flow path sections that can be flowed through consecutively in opposite directions for the first medium, which are separated from one another by a division wall arranged between the at least two trays of the at least one pair of trays, and wherein the second flow chamber has a second flow path for the second medium.

Device for the exchange of heat and motor vehicle

In an internal combustion engine having a system for utilizing the waste heat from the internal combustion engine via the Clausius-Rankine cycle, a system includes a circuit having lines with a working medium, a working medium pump, a vaporizer-exhaust gas heat exchanger, and a vaporizer-EGR heat exchanger, an expander, and a condenser for liquefying the vaporous working medium. The line for the working medium is run from the condenser to the vaporizer-EGR heat exchanger so that the working medium, after flowing through the condenser, first flows through the vaporizer-EGR heat exchanger, and the line for the working medium is run from the vaporizer-EGR heat exchanger to the vaporizer-exhaust gas heat exchanger so that the working medium, after flowing through the vaporizer-EGR heat exchanger, first flows through the vaporizer-exhaust gas heat exchanger.

A system for utilizing waste heat of an internal combustion engine via the Clausius-Rankine cycle process is provided that includes a circuit with lines containing a working medium, an evaporator heat exchanger which serves for evaporating the liquid working medium using waste heat of the internal combustion engine and which has an inlet opening for conducting the working medium into a flow duct and an outlet opening for conducting the working medium out of the flow duct, and the flow duct is divided into a plurality of flow duct parts connected hydraulically in parallel, an expansion machine, a condenser for liquefying the vaporous working medium, a collecting and compensating vessel for the liquid working medium, it is sought to be able to change the working medium substantially completely from a liquid state of aggregation to a gaseous state of aggregation at an evaporator heat exchanger.

System for utilizing waste heat of an internal combustion engine

A device for cooling a gas flow of an internal combustion engine includes a housing, an inlet and an outlet for a gas of the internal combustion engine, which is to be cooled, an inlet and an outlet for a liquid coolant, a heat exchanger for heat transfer between the gas and the coolant, a first wall section of the housing, wherein the first wall section is arranged between the coolant and the gas flow, and a second wall section of the housing, wherein the second wall section is arranged between the coolant and the atmosphere, wherein the first wall section and the second wall section are integrally formed in one piece.

Device for cooling a gas flow of an internal combustion engine

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