Condenser for a vehicle air-conditioning system

US6425261B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Behr GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Roland Burk · Stuttgart, DE
• Hagen Mittelstrass · Nagold, DE
• Karl-Heinz Staffa · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 30, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 13, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F28F2210/08
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a condenser for an air-conditioning system, in particular for an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, there is provision for a collector (15) to be formed from a plurality of series-connected tubes (18) which extend between header tubes (10, 11) and the cross section of which is a multiple of the cross section of the flat tubes (13).