Radiator module for commercial motor vehicles

US7467679B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AGCO Corporation · US

Inventors

• Robert Honzek · Oberthingau, DE
• Gerhard Mariner · Bidingen, DE
• Guido Naegele · Marktoberdorf, DE
• Gerd Rathke · Marktoberdorf, DE
• Georg Schwarz · Zürich, CH
• Juergen Tschullik · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 21, 2006
• Grant date: Dec 23, 2008
• Expiry date: Aug 4, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F28D2021/0094
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A radiator module for commercial motor vehicles, in particular for agricultural tractors, has a support plate fixed to the chassis and at least one coolant radiator fixed to the support plate. The radiator has a radiator block and two coolant tanks oriented at opposite ends of the block with one tank adjacent the support plate and one spaced away form the support plate. In order to increase the cooling performance of the radiator module despite keeping the installation space above the support plate constant it is proposed that the coolant tank near the plate is constructed from two mutually complementing tank parts. The first tank part is assigned to the radiator block and has an encircling flange for pressure sealed attachment of the coolant radiator on the support plate. A second tank part is assigned to the support plate. By dividing the coolant tank into two parts, one on the radiator block and one on the support plate the effective heat sink area of the coolant radiator can be substantially increased. On the one hand the enlargement is due to the fact that the flange encircling the first tank part also serves to attach the coolant radiator on the support plate and in this regi…