Patent ID: 6607026
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: F28D,Y10S

Abstract:
A heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device including a thermal loop equipped with a heat exchanger, the heat exchanger comprising:a stack of orientation plates having first and second opposite longitudinal ends defining channel regions between them in which a cooling liquid travels from one said end to the other in a longitudinal direction of the orientation plates, the first and the second longitudinal ends of the orientation plates having means for directing a flow of the cooling liquid either in an axial direction of the heat exchanger or, by diverting it, in the longitudinal direction of the orientation plates, in said channel region, certain orientation plates being axial-orientation plates, and certain orientation plates being partition plates which, at least at one of their ends, divert the flow of the cooling liquid into said channel region, the heat exchanger also having end plates arranged at its two opposite axial ends, wherein a one of the longitudinal ends of at least one of the orientation plates is coupled by means of at least one damper element to a corresponding end of at least one other of the orientation plates and/or at least one of the end plates, wherein at least one said damper element is integral with a stiffening means.