US 12,351,015 B2
Heat exchanger assembly for a motor vehicle
Tobias Duffe, Cologne (DE); Maximilian Klein, Düsseldorf (DE); Christian Jolk, Cologne (DE); Morten Pyroth, Leverkusen (DE); and Thomas Nitsche, Neuss (DE)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on May 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/315,108.
Claims priority of application No. 102022111588.7 (DE), filed on May 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0364983 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 11/04 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01); F28D 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 11/04 (2013.01) [F28D 21/00 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12); F28D 2021/008 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heat exchanger assembly for a motor vehicle, the heat exchanger assembly comprising:
at least one heat exchanger formed by additive manufacturing and including at least two end tanks and a plurality of exchanger tubes formed therein, the plurality of exchanger tubes extending in a transverse direction relative to a longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle and connecting the at least two end tanks to each other such that fluid is allowed to flow between the at least two end tanks by the plurality of exchanger tubes,
wherein the at least one heat exchanger has a first recess formed therein, wherein a first exchanger tube of the plurality of exchanger tubes has at least one change of direction such that the first exchanger tube bypasses the first recess at an angle to the transverse direction and runs along a side of the first recess.