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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2004
Gerrit Wolk, Stuttgart, DE;
Markus Pflieger, Stuttgart, DE;
Siegfried Tews, Stuttgart, DE;
Behr GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A collection container for a heat exchanger, in particular for a refrigerant condenser of a motor vehicle, the collection container having at least one inlet opening for a fluid, in particular refrigerant, and the collection container having at least one outlet opening for the fluid, in which in addition the outer jacket of the collection container limits a cross-sectional surface of the internal chamber in each of a number of cross-sections regarded perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the collection container, and in which the surface content of these cross-sectional surfaces of the internal chamber limited by the outer jacket has different sizes in at least two cross-sections situated at a distance from one another in the longitudinal direction of the collection container.