Patent ID: 7571718

Claim:
A device for exchanging heat in an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, comprising: an at least two-component, contoured housing with first and second housing components, wherein the first housing component has an essentially U-shaped outline cross section which is closed by the second housing component at an open side of the first housing component, wherein the second housing component is essentially planar, wherein edges of the first and second housing components that join together do not extend linearly; at least one first feed means for a first medium; at least one first discharge means for the first medium; at least one second feed means for a second medium on a first side of the housing; at least one second discharge means for the second medium on a second side of the housing opposite the first side; at least one first flow device for the first medium with a first flow path in a first flow direction, wherein the first flow device is accommodated in the housing; at least one second flow device for the second medium with a second flow path in a second flow direction, wherein the second flow device is accommodated in the housing, wherein the first and second flow paths are separated from one another and the first and second flow directions are at least partially different; and at least one frame device entirely accommodated in the housing, wherein the first and second flow devices are held spaced apart from one another in at least one region by the at least one frame device, wherein the second feed means is at least one inlet flange and the second discharge means is at least one outlet flange, and wherein the inlet flange, the outlet flange, or any combination thereof has a deep-drawn base body with a bushing which accommodates a predefined section of a pipe or which fits into the pipe.