US 12,442,601 B2
Heat exchanger arrangement, method for producing a heat exchanger arrangement, and internal combustion engine having the heat exchanger arrangement
Atila Celik, Renningen (DE); Alexander Korn, Gueglingen (DE); and Hans-Peter Hielscher, Winnenden (DE)
Assigned to MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, Ludwigsburg (DE)
Filed by MANN+HUMMEL GmbH, Ludwigsburg (DE)
Filed on Feb. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/592,982.
Application 17/592,982 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/067487, filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 121 494.7 (DE), filed on Aug. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0155030 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. F28F 9/00 (2006.01); F28F 9/18 (2006.01)
CPC F28F 9/001 (2013.01) [F28F 9/187 (2013.01); F28F 2230/00 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A heat exchanger arrangement comprising:
a housing comprising a fluid inlet for receiving a fluid in the form of heated air and a fluid outlet for discharging the fluid in the form of cooled air, the housing formed of a first shell and a second shell; and
a heat exchanger arranged in the housing between the fluid inlet of the housing and the fluid outlet of the housing and surrounded by the housing;
wherein the heat exchanger is arranged such that the fluid can flow through the heat exchanger;
wherein the housing comprises a seal contour formed on at least one of the first shell and the second shell;
wherein the seal contour of the housing comprises a meltable and formable plastic material that is materially fused to a seal surface of the heat exchanger at the fluid inlet of the housing or at the fluid outlet of the housing; and
wherein a seal surface of the seal contour of the housing toward the heat exchanger is separate from and coplanar to a seal surface of one of the first shell and the second shell toward the other one of the first shell and the second shell.