Patent ID: 7243710

Claim:
A vehicle heat exchanger comprising; a large heat exchanger and a frontmost heat exchanger overlapped with each other in a direction of airflow, each heat exchanger comprising: heat exchanger tubes arranged side by side with each other; outer fins interposed between neighboring heat exchanger tubes; and header pipes connecting and communicating with both ends of the heat exchanger tubes for heat-conducting media to circulate through the heat exchanger tubes and the header pipes; a reservoir in communication with one of the header pipes for reserving one of the heat-conducting media; and a bracket for fixing the reservoir to the header pipe of the larger heat exchanger, wherein a length of the header pipes of the larger heat exchanger is longer than a length of the header pipes of the frontmost heat exchanger in an elongation direction of the heat exchanger tubes, wherein the reservoir is located behind a plane extending through an intake of the frontmost heat exchanger, wherein the airflow is introduced into the intake, and wherein the reservoir is located alongside the header pipe of the larger heat exchanger, and wherein the bracket extends toward the frontmost heat exchanger in an area beyond the overlap between the larger heat exchanger and the frontmost heat exchanger.