WIND FLUX CONCENTRATION GUIDING DEVICE AND ENGINE ROOM LAYOUT THEREOF

• US 20120228044A1
• Filed: 11/11/2011
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: NAM, Jongwoo, LEE, Jonghoon, KIM, Wonsik, HAN, Jongwan
• Granted Patent: US 8,893,835 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/68.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 11/04 Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds B60K11/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 11/08 Air inlets for cooling; Shutters or blinds therefor radiator or grille guards B60R19/52
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 13/02 concerning intake
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 11/10 Guiding or ducting cooling-air, to, or from, liquid-to-air heat exchangers
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2001/005 Cooling engine rooms
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2060/02 Intercooler
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/85938 Non-valved flow dividers

Abstract

An engine room layout using a wind flux concentration guiding device, may include an intake system having an air intake, a turbocharger, and an intercooler, and may be disposed in an engine room, a cooling module having a condenser and a radiator, a main duct that introduces wind passing through a front end part forming the front of the engine room and discharges the wind to the air intake and the intercooler, a sub-duct that introduces the wind passing through the front end part from different positions and discharges the wind to the intercooler, and a diverging duct that may be connected to a wind channel of the main duct to diverge some of the wind introduced into the main duct before the wind passes out of the main duct, and send the wind to the air intake.

Claims

1. A wind flux concentration guiding device, wherein wind passing through a radiator grill disposed at the top of a front end part forming a front portion of an engine room is introduced and configured to be discharged to two different parts of an intake system disposed in the engine room, and

wind flowing to a bumper portion disposed at the bottom of the front end part is introduced and configured to be discharged to any one of the two different parts.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein one of the two different parts of the intake system is an intercooler that cools oversupplied air from a turbocharger and the other one is an air intake that introduces the external air.

3. The device as defined in claim 2, comprising:

a main duct that has an inlet close to the radiator grill to introduce the wind passing through the radiator grill and an outlet positioned at the top of the intercooler;

a sub-duct that allows the wind to flow through at least one or more positions to introduce the wind flowing to the bumper portion; and

a diverging duct that is connected to a wind channel of the main duct to diverge some of the wind introduced into the main duct before the wind passes out of the outlet of the main duct, and send the diverged wind to the air intake.

4. The device as defined in claim 3, wherein

the main duct is an open channel inclined at an angle with the inlet disposed higher than the outlet,

the sub-duct is an open channel having a pair of lower intake duct and upper intake duct protruding at a distance from each other at a side to introduce the wind flowing to the bumper portion, and

the diverging duct is an open channel connected to the wind channel of the main duct.

5. The device as defined in claim 4, wherein the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct have different inlet cross-sections and outlet cross-sections to have funnel-shaped cross-sections.

6. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein the inlet cross-sections are narrower than the outlet cross-sections.

7. The device as defined in claim 5, wherein an inlet cross-section of the lower intake duct are substantially the same as an outlet cross-section thereof.

8. The device as defined in claim 4, wherein the wind introduced into the lower intake duct and the upper intake duct of the sub-duct is configured to collect when being discharged from the sub-duct.

9. An engine room layout using a wind flux concentration guiding device, comprising:

an intake system that includes an air intake introducing external air, a turbocharger connected to an external gas circulation device, and an intercooler cooling oversupplied air and sending the air to an intake manifold, and is disposed in an engine room;

a cooling module that includes a condenser for a cooling device and a radiator for an engine cooling system and disposed at a side of the intake system;

a main duct that introduces wind passing through a front end part forming the front of the engine room and discharges the wind to the air intake and the intercooler;

a sub-duct that introduces the wind passing through the front end part from different positions and discharges the wind to the intercooler; and

a diverging duct that is connected to a wind channel of the main duct to diverge some of the wind introduced into the main duct before the wind passes out of the main duct, and send the wind to the air intake.

10. The engine room layout as defined in claim 9, wherein the cooling module is cooled directly by wind passing through the radiator grill disposed at the front end part, and

the wind flux concentration guiding device is disposed at a side of the radiator grill in order not to interfere with the flow of the wind directly flowing to the cooling module.

11. The engine room layout as defined in claim 10, wherein the wind flux concentration guiding device is combined by a duct frame disposed at the front end part.

12. The engine room layout as defined in claim 10, wherein the sub-duct is an open channel having a pair of lower intake duct and upper intake duct protruding at a distance from each other at a side.

13. The engine room layout as defined in claim 12, wherein the main duct of the wind flux concentration guiding device is positioned at a side of the radiator grill,

the diverging duct from the main duct is directly connected to the air intake, and

the lower intake duct of the sub-duct is positioned at a bumper bracket portion where a bumper is disposed in a bumper portion, while the upper intake duct is positioned around an inter-bracket disposed at the bumper bracket portion at a predetermined distance.

14. The engine room layout as defined in claim 13, wherein an air inlet that is an open space surrounding the lower intake duct and allowing wind to flow therein is formed at the bumper bracket.

15. The engine room layout as defined in claim 13, wherein the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct have different inlet cross-sections and outlet cross-sections to have funnel-shaped cross-sections.

16. The engine room layout as defined in claim 15, wherein the inlet cross-sections are narrower than the outlet cross-sections.

17. The engine room layout as defined in claim 13, wherein an inlet cross-section of the lower intake duct are substantially the same as an outlet cross-section thereof.

18. The engine room layout as defined in claim 13, wherein the wind introduced into the lower intake duct and the upper intake duct of the sub-duct is configured to collect when being discharged from the sub-duct.