Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K11/00—Arrangement in connection with cooling of propulsion units
  • B60K11/02—Arrangement in connection with cooling of propulsion units with liquid cooling
  • B60K11/04—Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
  • B60K11/00—Arrangement in connection with cooling of propulsion units
  • B60K11/08—Air inlets for cooling; Shutters or blinds therefor
  • B60K11/085—Air inlets for cooling; Shutters or blinds therefor with adjustable shutters or blinds
• • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
  • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
  • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
  • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
  • Y02T10/80—Technologies aiming to reduce greenhouse gasses emissions common to all road transportation technologies
  • Y02T10/88—Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses

Definitions

• the subject of the invention is a cooling unit for the front face of a motor vehicle.
• the heat treatment module includes heat exchangers forming part of a cabin air conditioning heat loop and an engine cooling radiator.
• a major drawback of these cooling units lies in the fact that part of the air arriving through the inlet orifice does not pass through the heat exchanger (s) and dissipates spontaneously in the engine compartment.
• the present invention aims to improve the situation.
• the subject of the invention is a cooling unit for a front face of a motor vehicle, the unit comprising a housing and at least one heat exchanger mounted in the housing, the housing comprising:
• a housing frame of an air inlet regulating device provided with at least one movable flap, said front frame,
• the housing delimiting a closed volume and comprising removable junction elements to selectively allow assembly or disassembly of said at least one an exchanger in the housing in at least two different mounting or dismounting directions.
• the enclosure defining a closed volume is configured in a modular manner, namely that it consists of a set of modules or juxtaposable elements combinable with other elements of the same nature or contributing to the same function.
• the housing is associated with a support to allow the implementation and the juxtaposition of the heat exchangers as well as other elements such as a set of controlled flaps, a fan motor group, etc. tightly.
• the casing thus allows a mounting or disassembly of the at least one exchanger in the casing according to at least two different mounting or dismounting directions, namely a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and / or a vertical direction, independently of the others. heat exchangers or other elements such as the motor-fan unit, etc.
• the rear cover comprises a housing for a motor-fan unit for moving air.
• the housing comprises at least one removable connecting element between the front frame and the rear cover.
• the housing comprises at least one connection cover between the front frame and the rear cover.
• the housing comprises a single cover, a removable connecting element between the front frame and the rear cover, a removable connecting element between the cover and the front frame and a removable connecting element between the cover and the back cover.
• the housing comprises two covers, said first and second cover, a removable connecting element between the front frame and the first cover, a removable connecting element between the front frame and the second cover, a removable connecting element between the first cover and the rear cover and a removable connecting element between the second cover and the rear cover.
• the housing comprises fasteners of the unit to a beam of the motor vehicle.
• the unit comprises a cooling radiator of the vehicle engine and / or a condenser of a heating, ventilation and / or air conditioning device of the vehicle and / or an evaporator of the heating device, ventilation and / or air conditioning and / or a subcooler of the heating, ventilation and / or air conditioning device.
• the invention also relates to a structure for a front end of a motor vehicle, comprising a cooling unit as described above.
• FIG. 1 illustrates an exploded view of a cooling unit according to the present invention
• FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic cross-sectional view of a housing of the unit of FIG. 1 according to a first embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic cross-sectional view of a housing of the unit of FIG. 1 according to a second embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 4 illustrates a schematic cross-sectional view of a housing of the unit of FIG. 1 according to a third embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 5 illustrates a schematic cross-sectional view of a housing of the unit of Figure 1 according to a fourth embodiment of the invention.
• the subject of the invention is a cooling unit for the front face of a motor vehicle.
• the cooling unit 1 comprises a housing 2 in which is encapsulated at least one heat exchanger (three heat exchangers in Figure 1).
• encapsulated means that the heat exchanger or heat exchangers are included in the housing 2 so sealed without air leak around the heat exchanger or exchangers.
• the housing 2 comprises a frame 3 for housing an air inlet regulating device provided with at least one movable flap 4, said front frame 3.
• the housing 2 also comprises a cover 5, said back cover.
• the air inlet control device 4 comprises an upper portion 6 of movable flaps and a lower portion 7 of movable flaps.
• the three heat exchangers encapsulated in the casing 2 are respectively a radiator 8, a condenser 9 and an evaporator 10.
• the rear cover 5 comprises a motor-fan unit 1 1 for moving air in order to suck air into the motor vehicle.
• the casing 2 comprises, in the embodiment of FIG. 1, an upper cover 10 connecting the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• the upper cover 10 is shaped to cover the front frame 3, the three heat exchangers 8, 9 and 10, and the rear cover 5.
• the housing 2 In its position installed in the motor vehicle, the housing 2 is arranged so that the frame 3 is disposed forward, while the cover 4 is arranged behind, relative to an inlet direction of a flow of air F in the case.
• the air flow F is mainly parallel to a longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle, denoted X.
• a transverse direction is noted Y.
• a vertical direction is noted Z.
• the housing 2 therefore extends in a longitudinal direction (X), transverse (Y) and vertical (Z), for example relative to the axes of the vehicle, once mounted.
• the front frame 3 and the rear cover 4 are removably attached to one another.
• the housing 2 delimits a closed volume, V, in which the heat exchangers are disposed (more particularly visible in FIGS. 2 to 5).
• the housing 2 is configured in a modular way to allow assembly and disassembly of at least one of the exchangers in the longitudinal direction X, the transverse direction Y, the vertical direction Z, or a combination of these directions, as it will to be detailed.
• the housing 2 comprises at least one removable connecting element.
• the removable junction element is for example a sealless sealing bead provided with two fingers which cooperate with each other, known per se.
• the casing comprises members 20 for fastening the unit 1 to a beam of the motor vehicle, not shown.
• the closed volume is delimited solely by the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• the housing 2 comprises at least one removable connecting element between the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• the housing 2 comprises two removable connecting elements between the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• the first removable connecting element, 12, is disposed in the upper part, while the other removable connecting element 13 is arranged in the lower part.
• Upper part means part near the vehicle bonnet, as opposed to the lower part, which is understood to be close to the floor of the vehicle.
• the upper part corresponds to the highest part of the cooling unit 1 in the vertical direction (Z) and, by analogy, the lower part corresponds to the lowest part of the cooling unit 1 according to the vertical direction (Z).
• the closed volume is delimited solely by the front frame 3, the rear cover 5 and a connection cover 14 of the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• connection cover 14 is called the lower cover 14.
• the housing 2 comprises an upper removable connecting element 12 between the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5, a lower removable connecting element 13 between the lower cover 14 and the front frame 3 and a removable connecting element lower 13 'between the lower cover 14 and the rear cover 5.
• the lower cover 14 extends in the direction X, orthogonal to the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• the lower junction elements 15 and 16 are advantageously secured to the ends of the lower cover 14.
• the housing 2 comprises junction elements 12, 13 removable so as to be able to configure the unit of cooling 1, including the housing 2, and thus access the heat exchangers in a direction X, Y or Z depending on the constraints, for example steric nature, and the needs of the front panel module.
• the closed volume is delimited solely by the front frame 3, the rear cover 5 and two connection covers of the front frame 3 and the rear cover 5.
• the first connection cover is called lower cover 14.
• the second connection cover is the top cover 10.
• the upper cover 10 and the lower cover 14 extend parallel to the X direction in the embodiment of FIG. 4 and parallel to the X direction and the Z direction in the embodiment of FIG. 5.
• the housing 2 comprises:
• the upper (respectively lower) joining elements are advantageously secured to the ends of the upper cover (respectively lower).
• the connecting elements are removable, it is possible to reversibly separate the front frame 3, the rear cover 5, the lower cover 14, and the top cover 10, which allows access to the heat exchangers in the case 2.
• top cover is not shaped to serve as a hood of the motor vehicle nor can it help to close the hood of the vehicle.
• the unit according to the present invention comprising a casing for encapsulating heat exchangers, air leaks are limited, which reduces the size of heat exchangers while improving the coefficient of thermal performance of the vehicle, and reduce the emission of C0 2 of the motor vehicle.
• the housing according to the invention being modular, that is to say that the elements constituting it (the front frame, the rear cover, possibly the cover or caps) are reversibly detachable, access to the exchangers is facilitated while throughout the life of the vehicle, whether for assembly in original equipment or assembly and disassembly during maintenance operation of the vehicle, or for a retrofit.
• the invention also relates to a structure for a front end of a motor vehicle, comprising the cooling unit 1.
• the support comprises the beam integral with the cooling unit.
• the beam is advantageously a bottom rail, an upper cross member, or a lateral amount of the support.
• the support optionally comprises an anti-bumper beam.

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• Cooling, Air Intake And Gas Exhaust, And Fuel Tank Arrangements In Propulsion Units (AREA)
• Air-Conditioning For Vehicles (AREA)

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