IP Library Granted Patent US 10,012,135
Granted Patent B2
US 10,012,135 · App. 14/258,833 · Granted Jul 3, 2018

Air-guiding component with an intercooler

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Patent No.
US 10,012,135
App. No.
14/258,833
Granted
Jul 3, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An air-guiding component for a charged internal combustion engine has an intercooler provided with coolant connectors that is disposed in a housing of the air-guiding component. The housing has at least two housing parts including a basic housing part. The housing is provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for charge air and is further provided with at least one passage for the coolant connectors of the intercooler. The intercooler is arranged between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet so as to be flowed through by the charge air. The housing has housing walls and at least one of the housing walls has at least one corrugation.

Claims (44)

1. An air-guiding component for a charged internal combustion engine, the air-guiding component comprising:

an intercooler provided with coolant connectors;

a housing wherein the intercooler is disposed in the housing;

the housing comprising at least two housing parts including a basic housing part;

the housing provided with at least one inlet and at least one outlet for charge air and further provided with at least one passage for the coolant connectors of the intercooler;

wherein the intercooler is arranged between the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet so as to be flowed through by the charge air;

wherein the housing has housing walls and at least one of the housing walls has at least one corrugation.

2. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one corrugation is an inner corrugation and has a corrugation wall with an exterior side,

wherein the exterior side of the corrugation wall faces the intercooler and rests seal-tightly on an exterior side of the intercooler that is facing the corrugation wall.

3. The air-guiding component according to claim 2 , wherein

the exterior side of the intercooler is a flange plate of the intercooler.

4. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one corrugation is an inner corrugation and has a corrugation wall that faces the intercooler and is spaced apart from an exterior side of the intercooler that is facing the corrugation wall.

5. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

in or on the at least one corrugation at least one reinforcement rib is arranged.

6. The air-guiding component according to claim 5 , wherein

the at least one reinforcement rib is an inner reinforcement rib that has a free rim supported on an exterior side of the intercooler that is facing the free rim.

7. The air-guiding component according to claim 5 , wherein

the at least one reinforcement rib is an inner reinforcement rib that has a free rim that is spaced apart from an exterior side of the intercooler that is facing the free rim.

8. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one corrugation is arranged at an inlet side of the intercooler or an outlet side of the intercooler and has a corrugation wall provided with a flow contour.

9. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one corrugation has a corrugation wall that at least partially forms a seal receptacle for a seal device.

10. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

the intercooler is fastened to the basic housing part by a fastening device such that the intercooler separates at least on one side of the basic housing part the at least one inlet seal-tightly from the at least one outlet.

11. The air-guiding component according to claim 10 , wherein

the intercooler, when the air-guiding component is assembled, seal-tightly separates the at least one inlet and the at least one outlet relative to all of the at least two housing parts of the housing adjoining the intercooler.

12. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , comprising

at least one fixed bearing and at least one floating bearing that together fasten the intercooler to the housing.

13. The air-guiding component according to claim 12 , wherein

the at least one fixed bearing and the at least one floating bearing fasten the intercooler to the basic housing part of the housing.

14. The air-guiding component according to claim 12 , further comprising

at least one captive action device that secures at least one rotation/insertion element of the at least one fixed bearing.

15. The air-guiding component according to claim 12 , further comprising

at least one captive action device that secures at least one rotation/insertion element of the at least one floating bearing.

16. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , wherein

at least one of the at least one inlet, the at least one outlet, and

the at least one passage for the coolant connectors is arranged on the basic housing part.

17. The air-guiding component according to claim 1 , further comprising

at least one seal that is arranged between at least one exterior side of the intercooler and one of the housing walls of the housing that is facing the at least one exterior side of the intercooler.

18. The air-guiding component according to claim 17 , further comprising

at least one seal holder for the at least one seal,

wherein the at least one seal holder is arranged in one of the at least two housing parts.

Assignments (3)
CONFIRMATORY GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN UNITED STATES PATENTS Recorded Jun 28, 2019
From: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 049630/0231 →
ASSIGNMENT ADD CO-OWNER Recorded May 30, 2018
From: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
To: MODINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Reel/Frame 046267/0506 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 9, 2015
From: SPEIDEL, GERRIT-TOBIAS; RETTER, ADRIEN; PIETROWSKI, HERBERT; PRÍBORSKÝ, VLADIMÍMIR
To: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
Reel/Frame 036519/0097 →