Evaporator unit for a rooftop air-conditioning system of a road-going vehicle

US10675949B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Mahle International GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Hipp-Kalthoff · Simmozheim, DE
• Hans-Henning Knorr · Winnenden, DE
• Nayyar Rahman · Stuttgart, DE
• Klaus Voigt · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2016
• Grant date: Jun 9, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 16, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60H2001/00235
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An evaporator unit for a rooftop air-conditioning system of a vehicle may include a housing having two evaporators. Each evaporator may include a plurality of evaporation pipes running parallel to one another and parallel to a Z axis of the evaporators, a distributor and collector box running parallel to an X axis of the evaporator, and a diverting box running parallel to the X axis of the evaporator. The distributor and collector box may include an inlet connector for liquid refrigerant and an outlet connector for gaseous refrigerant that may be disposed adjacent to one another on a same face side of the distributor and collector box and in a Y axis of the evaporator. The two evaporators may be disposed on both sides of an intake chamber of the evaporator unit and may lay opposite one another in a transverse axis of the evaporator unit. The evaporators may be structurally identical.