Audi Ag

Stefan Elbel

Hans Hammer

Predrag Hrnjak

Andrew Musser

Hui Zhao

Matej Visek

Wesley Schell

Jing Che

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, to be precise at least one evaporator tube being a flat tube with a plurality of micro-channels.

Evaporator in a refrigerant circuit a

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, to be precise at least one evaporator tube being a flat tube with a plurality of micro-channels, through which the refrigerant is guided, wherein, as a first flat tube, the evaporator flat tube is a constituent part of a first evaporator tube set which guides the refrigerant from the bottom-side inlet chamber counter to the direction of gravity into an upper-side deflecting chamber, and wherein the refrigerant is guided back from the upper-side deflecting chamber via at least one second flat tube.

Evaporator in a refrigerant circuit B

Evaporator in a refrigerant circuit D

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.

Evaporator in a refrigerant circuit E

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. The separator has a distributor tube which extends in the inlet chamber in the evaporator transverse direction.

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Urbana, IL, United States of America

Stefan Elbel