Patent ID: 8020536

Claim:
A cooler device for a motor vehicle comprising a charge air cooler with a first cooler element operable for cooling of charge air for a combustion engine of the motor vehicle; an EGR cooler with a second cooler element operable for cooling of exhaust gases which are to be led back to a combustion engine; the first cooler element and the second cooler element are arranged beside and substantially in a plane with one another, the first and the second cooler elements each comprise pipelines for the charge air and the exhaust gases respectively which are to be cooled, and comprise air passages for a cooling air flow and which are arranged between the pipelines; a screening device arranged in front of or behind the cooler elements in a direction of air flow past the cooler device in order to regulate the air flow through the first and the second cooler elements; a control mechanism operable to switch the screening device to and from between an open position in which the screening device does not, or at least does not appreciably, limit the air flow through the air passages of the cooler elements, and a closed position in which the screening device limits the air flow through the air passages between all of the pipelines of the second cooler element and limits the air flow through the air passages between fewer than all of the pipelines of the first cooler element.