Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Modine Manufacturing Company

Modine Laengerer & Reich Gmbh

Modine Mfg. Co.

Winfrid Eckerskorn

Klaus Kalbacher

Axel Temmesfeld

Karl Schutterle

Heinz Lemberger

Viktor Brost

Gerhart Huemer

Christian Absmeier

Manfred Schatz

Victor Brost

Karl Schuetterle

A heat exchanger assembly is provided attachable to a frame of a vehicle. The heat exchanger assembly includes first and second support brackets attachable to a frame of a vehicle so as to define a mounting space therebetween having closed sides in two facing planes, the first and second support brackets each having a surface thereon transverse to the planes. The heat exchanger assembly also includes a first heat exchanger disposed within the mounting space, the first heat exchanger supported on the surfaces of the first and second brackets and releasably secured to the first and second support brackets. The heat exchanger further includes a second heat exchanger disposed within the mounting space, the second heat exchanger supported on the surfaces of the first and second brackets and releasably secured to the first and second support brackets separately from the first heat exchanger.

Heat exchanger assembly with modular support brackets

In order to control the temperature of the transmission oil of a motor vehicle driven by a liquid-cooled engine, a coolant/transmission oil heat exchanger is provided. The coolant stream supplied to the heat exchanger is miscible in a thermostatic valve from recooled and non-recooled coolant in order to achieve a desired temperature. Preferably the thermostatic valve is controlled by the temperature of the transmission oil, but it is also possible to have two expanding material elements as control pistons of the thermostatic valve, with one control piston being provided in the oil chamber of the thermostatic valve and the other control piston being provided in the coolant mixing chamber of the thermostatic valve. It is also possible, for purposes of precontrol, to electrically heat at least one of the control pistons.

Device for stabilizing the temperature of the transmission oil of a

A thermostatic valve assembly includes three housing components (16, 18, 20) containing two interconnected chambers (64, 78). A first thermally responsive valve unit (68) is disposed in the chamber (64) while a second thermally responsive valve element (98) is disposed in the chamber (78). Both the chambers (64) and (78) have inlets (60, 110) and the chamber (64) has an outlet (66). The valve may assume configurations allowing a minimal flow (FIG. 2), a large volume warm up flow (FIG. 3), a mixed flow regimen (FIG. 4) and a pure cooling flow regimen (FIG. 5).

Thermally responsive valve assembly

According to a first aspect of the invention, a cooling module comprises a cooling system which comprises a radiator. A fan for generating air flow across the radiator also has a fan housing attached to the radiator in which the fan is located so that the fan is disposed relative to the radiator such that the fan may generate air flow across the radiator. A mounting plate is also attached to the radiator and has a first side facing the radiator and a second side. The mounting plate has attachment sites on the second side integral therewith on which other parts of the cooling system are mountable and channels integral therewith through which a coolant flowing through the cooling system may pass.

Cooling module having a mounting plate with integral attachment sites

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Ottobrunn, Germany

Winfrid Eckerskorn