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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2012
Stefan Hirsch, Stuttgart, DE;
Kurt Molt, Bietigheim, DE;
Uwe Foerster, Erdmannhausen, DE;
Behr GmbH & Co. KG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A heat exchanger having at least one collecting tank which extends in a longitudinal direction and which comprises a plate and a cover, wherein the plate has, at least one of its edge regions running in the longitudinal direction, a rim by means of which the plate engages at the outside over an edge region, which runs in the longitudinal direction, of the cover, or wherein the cover has, at least one of its edge regions running in the longitudinal direction, a rim by means of which the cover engages at the outside over an edge region, which runs in the longitudinal direction, of the plate. The respective rim have, in the longitudinal direction, a multiplicity of calked portions by means of which said rim, in the region of each individual calked portion, is deformed in the plate and the cover to one another.