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Heat exchanger

US8985193B2 · kind B2 · utility

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9References

21Claims

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Assignee

BEHR GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

Stefan Hirsch · Stuttgart, DE
Kurt Molt · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
Uwe Foerster · Erdmannhausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 21, 2012
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 21, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49389
WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat exchanger having at least one collecting tank which extends in a longitudinal direction and which comprises a plate and a cover, wherein the plate has, at least one of its edge regions running in the longitudinal direction, a rim by means of which the plate engages at the outside over an edge region, which runs in the longitudinal direction, of the cover, or wherein the cover has, at least one of its edge regions running in the longitudinal direction, a rim by means of which the cover engages at the outside over an edge region, which runs in the longitudinal direction, of the plate. The respective rim have, in the longitudinal direction, a multiplicity of calked portions by means of which said rim, in the region of each individual calked portion, is deformed in the plate and the cover to one another.

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