Heat exchanger assembly with modular support brackets

US6059019A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Modine Manufacturing Company · US
• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Viktor Brost · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Klaus Kalbacher · Rangendingen, DE
• Karl Schutterle · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Winfrid Eckerskorn · Ottobrunn, DE
• Axel Temmesfeld · Raubling, DE
• Manfred Schatz · Hersbruck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 24, 1998
• Grant date: May 9, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 24, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F28F2275/085
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat exchanger assembly is provided attachable to a frame of a vehicle. The heat exchanger assembly includes first and second support brackets attachable to a frame of a vehicle so as to define a mounting space therebetween having closed sides in two facing planes, the first and second support brackets each having a surface thereon transverse to the planes. The heat exchanger assembly also includes a first heat exchanger disposed within the mounting space, the first heat exchanger supported on the surfaces of the first and second brackets and releasably secured to the first and second support brackets. The heat exchanger further includes a second heat exchanger disposed within the mounting space, the second heat exchanger supported on the surfaces of the first and second brackets and releasably secured to the first and second support brackets separately from the first heat exchanger.