Patent ID: 11905982
Assignee: RöCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 0:
1. A coolant equalizing reservoir for arrangement in a coolant circuit, comprising:
a reservoir housing,
a vortex chamber in the reservoir housing,
a feed line for introducing coolant into the reservoir housing, and
an outflow aperture for discharging coolant from the reservoir housing,
where the feed line discharges into the vortex chamber, wherein the vortex chamber is defined by a wall protruding from a base-wall section of the reservoir housing along a vortex chamber's axis, encircling the vortex chamber's axis in a closed manner, which in every direction orthogonal to the vortex chamber's axis is arranged at a distance from the reservoir housing, wherein a flow baffle is arranged inside the vortex chamber, the flow baffle extending only along a circumferential section, but not completely closed about the vortex chamber's axis, where there is a gap having a gap spacing between an inner surface of the wall of the vortex chamber and a surface of the flow baffle facing towards the wall of the vortex chamber and along a flow path of the coolant in the gap, where the gap spacing in the flow path is constant along the vortex chamber's axis and becomes smaller and/or larger about the vortex chamber's axis to accelerate or decelerate the coolant in the vortex chamber.