Patent ID: 7784302

Claim:
A soldered refrigerant condenser, comprising: a heat exchanger network with flat tubes and corrugated ribs, collecting tubes which are fluid-connected to the flat tubes, and a header which is arranged parallel to one of the collecting tubes and which receives within it a dryer and/or filter and is fluid-connected to the collecting tube via overflow orifices, wherein the dryer is formed by a space which receives a dryer medium and which is delimited by a portion of the header and two closing plates passing through a cross section of the header, wherein an elastically prestressed pressure plate is arranged between an upper closing plate and the dryer medium which comprises a granulate, wherein the portion containing the dryer granulate is arranged in an upper region of the header, preferably in an upper third, in relation to a total height H of the header, and wherein the filter is arranged in a lower region of the header between two overflow orifices.