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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2022
Mahle International Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Steffen Brunner, Weissach im Tal, DE;
Sven Strücker, Ebhausen, DE;
MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for producing a flat tube for a heat exchanger, in particular for a motor vehicle, having a first wall, a second wall opposite to the first wall, having a third wall connecting the first and second wall, having a fourth wall connecting the second and first wall, wherein the first and second wall are longer than the third and fourth wall, having an interior for a medium to flow through, wherein a turbulence insert is arranged in the interior, wherein the method comprises at least the following process steps: —providing a plate material—forming the plate material into an intermediate tube in such a way that the plate material is crowned in at least two sections and the sections at least partially form the first and second wall of the flat tube and the intermediate tube forms an opening in the area one of the two third or fourth walls—providing and inserting a turbulence insert into the interior—closing the opening by means of a welding method.