Wind flux concentration guiding device and engine room layout thereof

• US 8,893,835 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2011
• Issued: 11/25/2014
• 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: Lee, Jonghoon, Nam, Jongwoo, Kim, Wonsik, Han, Jongwan
• Primary Examiner(s): EBNER, KATY MEYER
• Application Number:
  US13/294,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20120228044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.1, 180/68.2, 180/68.3, 180/68.4, 180/68.6
• 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, 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, and 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 external air, the wind flux concentration guiding device 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;

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

wherein the sub-duct is an open channel having a lower intake duct and an upper intake duct protruding at a distance from each other at a side to introduce the wind flowing to the bumper portion and discharge the wind to cool the intercooler;

wherein the diverging duct is an open channel connected to the wind channel of the main duct; and

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.

2. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein the inlet cross-sections of the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct are narrower than the outlet cross-sections of the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct, respectively.

3. The device as defined in claim 1, wherein an inlet cross-section of the lower intake duct is substantially the same as an outlet cross-section thereof.

4. The device as defined in claim 1, 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.

5. 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 exhaust 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; and

the wind flux concentration guiding device including;

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 cool 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;

wherein the wind flux concentration guiding device is disposed at a side of a radiator grill, thereby not interfering with wind directly flowing to the cooling module such that the cooling module is cooled directly by the wind passing through the radiator grill disposed at the front end part;

wherein the sub-duct is an open channel having a lower intake duct and an upper intake duct protruding at a distance from each other at a side;

wherein the main duct of the wind flux concentration guiding device is positioned at the side of the radiator grill;

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

wherein 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;

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 engine room layout as defined in claim 5, wherein the wind flux concentration guiding device is combined by a duct frame disposed at the front end part.

7. The engine room layout as defined in claim 5, 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.

8. The engine room layout as defined in claim 5, wherein the inlet cross-sections of the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct are narrower than the outlet cross-sections of the upper intake duct of the sub-duct and the diverging duct, respectively.

9. The engine room layout as defined in claim 5, wherein an inlet cross-section of the lower intake duct is substantially the same as an outlet cross-section thereof.

10. The engine room layout as defined in claim 5, 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.