Vehicle heater

US10363797B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BorgWarner Ludwigsburg GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Victor Ritzhaupt · Karlsruhe, DE
• Alexander Dauth · Maulbronn, DE
• Michael Luppold · Germersheim, DE
• Sisay Tadele · Friolzheim, DE
• Jörg Baginski · Remchingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2014
• Grant date: Jul 30, 2019
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05B2203/023
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle heater, comprising at least one pipe, which has a plurality of chambers, ceramic heating elements, which are arranged in the chambers, and contact plates, which rest against the heating elements in the chambers via a front side and face an upper side or underside of the chamber via a rear side, wherein at least two chambers of the pipe are separated by an intermediate wall, which runs from the upper side to the underside of these two chambers. The contact plates have a slit, in which the intermediate wall is arranged.