The present invention is a national stage application of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2019/113746, which is filed on Oct. 28, 2019 and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201811526281.9, filed on Dec. 13, 2018 and entitled “Heat Exchanger and Air Conditioner with Heat Exchanger”, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to a technical field of heat exchange devices, and in particular to a heat exchanger and an air conditioner with the heat exchanger.
In a related art, a core of a conventional microchannel heat exchanger is mainly manufactured by using a microchannel flat tube, a fin, a side plate, and a collecting pipe. While the conventional double-row microchannel heat exchanger is bent, a section of a core portion without the fin needs to be reserved in a bending area (as shown in
A main purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a heat exchanger and an air conditioner with the heat exchanger, as to solve problems in a related art that a double-row bending heat exchanger is high in cost and large in mounting space in the case of the same heat exchanger capacity.
In order to achieve the above purpose, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a heat exchanger is provided, including a plurality of heat exchange assemblies and a fin, the fin is located between two adjacent heat exchange assemblies of the plurality of heat exchange assemblies, each of plurality of the heat exchange assemblies includes a first channel and a second channel which are used for allowing a refrigerant to pass through, and a communication portion communicated with the first channel and the second channel, multiple protrusions being provided on the first channel, the second channel and the communication portion, and a density of protrusions on the first channel and a density of protrusions on second channel are greater than a density of protrusions on the communication portion, and a size of each of the protrusions on the first channel is smaller than or equal to a size of each of the protrusions on the communication portion, and a size of each of the protrusions on the second channel is smaller than or equal to the size of each of the protrusions on the communication portion.
In some embodiments, each of the plurality of heat exchangers includes: a body, the body is provided with an accommodating cavity, and an end portion, along a length direction, of the body is provided with a first opening and a second opening; and a rib, the rib is provided in the accommodating cavity, and the rib isolates the accommodating cavity into a first cavity and a second cavity communicated to each other, the first cavity forms the first channel and is communicated with the first opening, and the second cavity forms the second channel and is communicated with the second opening, one of the first opening and the second opening is used to feed the refrigerant, and the other is used to discharge the refrigerant.
In some embodiments, the body includes a first plate and a second plate, the first plate and the second plate are connected and surrounded to form the accommodating cavity, and one side, towards the accommodating cavity, of the first plate and/or the second plate is provided with the rib.
In some embodiments, an end portion, adjacent to the communication portion, of the first plate and/or the second plate is provided with a fin blocking portion, and the fin blocking portion is formed by bending the body at another end portion of the body.
In some embodiments, the first opening and the second opening are holes which pass through the body.
In some embodiments, each of the protrusions on the communication portion is a strip-shaped protrusion, and the strip-shaped protrusion has an included angle with a length direction of each of the plurality of heat exchange assemblies.
In some embodiments, the strip-shaped protrusion is of arc-shaped.
In some embodiments, a cross-sectional area of the first channel is different from a cross-sectional area of the second channel.
In some embodiments, the cross-sectional area of the first channel is S1, and the cross-sectional area of the second channel is S2, S1:S2=a, a∉[0.5-1].
In some embodiments, S1:S2=2:3.
In some embodiments, the heat exchanger further includes: a first collecting pipe, the first collecting pipe is communicated with the first channel of each of the plurality of heat exchange assemblies respectively; a second collecting pipe, the second collecting pipe is communicated with the second channel of each of the plurality of heat exchange assemblies respectively; a liquid inlet pipe, communicated with the first collecting pipe; and an air outlet pipe, communicated with the second collecting pipe; wherein a pipe diameter of the liquid inlet pipe is smaller than a pipe diameter of the air outlet pipe, and/or a pipe diameter of the first collecting pipe is smaller than a pipe diameter of the second collecting pipe.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, an air conditioner is provided, the air conditioner including a heat exchanger, and the heat exchanger is the above heat exchanger.
A technical solution of the present disclosure has the following beneficial effects.
1) Through the heat exchange assembly having the first channel, the second channel and the communication portion, circulation of the refrigerant in the first channel and the second channel is achieved, and a double-row heat exchanger is formed without the need to bend the heat exchange assembly, in the case of the same heat exchange capacity, the length of the heat exchanger is not increased, the mounting space is not limited, and the manufacturing cost is also reduced.
2) Through the large-density and large-size protrusions provided on the communication portion, the compression strength of the communication portion and the uniformity of a refrigerant flow field are ensured.
3) Through setting the cross-sectional areas of the first channel and the second channel in different modes, the pressure drop of the refrigerant in the channel is reduced, so the heat dissipation efficiency or refrigeration efficiency of the refrigerant is improved, and the heat exchange efficiency of the heat exchanger is improved.
Drawings of the description, constituting a part of the present disclosure, are used to provide further understanding of the present disclosure, and exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and descriptions of the exemplary embodiments are used to explain the present disclosure, and do not constitute improper limitation to the present disclosure. In the drawings:
Herein, the above drawings include the following reference sings:
10: heat exchange assembly; 11: first channel; 12: second channel;
20: fin;
30: body; 31: accommodating cavity; 32: first opening; 33: second opening; 34: first plate; 35: second plate; 36: rib;
40: protrusion;
50: air outlet pipe; and
60: liquid inlet pipe.
It should be noted that embodiments in the present disclosure and features in the embodiments may be combined with each other in the case without conflicting. The present disclosure is described in detail below with reference to a combination of the drawings and the embodiments.
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In this embodiment, through the heat exchange assembly having the first channel, the second channel and the communication portion, circulation of the refrigerant in the first channel and the second channel is achieved, and a double-row heat exchanger is formed without the need to bend the heat exchange assembly, in the case of the same heat exchange capacity, the length of the heat exchanger is not increased, the mounting space is not limited, and the manufacturing cost is also reduced. Through the large-density and large-size protrusions provided on the communication portion, the compression strength of the communication portion and the uniformity of a refrigerant flow field are ensured. Through setting the cross-sectional areas of the first channel and the second channel in different modes, the pressure drop of the refrigerant in the channel is reduced, so the heat dissipation efficiency or refrigeration efficiency of the refrigerant is improved, and the heat exchange efficiency of the heat exchanger is improved.
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In this embodiment, an end portion, adjacent to the communication portion, of the first plate 34 or the second plate 35 is provided with a fin blocking portion. Certainly, it is also possible to set the fin blocking portions on both the first plate 34 and the second plate 35. The fin blocking portion is formed by bending the body 30 at another end portion of the body. The fin blocking portion is used for fixing and installing the fin, and thereby improving the assembling efficiency of the heat exchanger.
In this embodiment, the first opening 32 and the second opening 33 are holes which pass through the body 30, so that one of the first opening 32 and the second opening 33 is used to feed the refrigerant, and the other is used to discharge the refrigerant. In addition, superposition of the openings on plurality of bodies form a collecting cavity, so there is no need to set a collecting pipe additionally.
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In this embodiment, a cross-sectional area of the first channel 11 is different from a cross-sectional area of the second channel 12. Such a configuration improves the conversion efficiency between the high and low pressure states of the refrigerant conducted in the first channel and the second channel, so as to improve the heat dissipation efficiency or refrigeration efficiency of the refrigerant, thereby the heat exchange efficiency of the heat exchanger is improved.
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Further, in other embodiments, the heat exchanger further includes a first collecting pipe, a second collecting pipe, a liquid inlet pipe 60 and an air outlet pipe 50, the first collecting pipe is communicated with the first channel 11 of each of the plurality of heat exchange assemblies 10 respectively, the second collecting pipe is communicated with the second channel of each of the plurality of heat exchange assemblies 10 respectively, the liquid inlet pipe 60 is communicated with the first collecting pipe, and the air outlet pipe 50 is communicated with the second collecting pipe; herein a pipe diameter of the liquid inlet pipe 60 is smaller than a pipe diameter of the air outlet pipe 50, or a pipe diameter of the first collecting pipe is smaller than a pipe diameter of the second collecting pipe. Certainly, it is possible that the pipe diameter of the liquid inlet pipe 60 is smaller than the pipe diameter of the air outlet pipe 50 and the pipe diameter of the first collecting pipe is smaller than the pipe diameter of the second collecting pipe. Such a configuration reduces cavity volume and weight of the collecting pipe or the liquid inlet pipe 60, and reduces refrigerant charge amount and material cost of the heat exchanger.
The heat exchanger in the above embodiments may also be used in the technical field of air conditioning devices, namely according to another aspect of the present disclosure, an air conditioner is provided. The air conditioner includes a heat exchanger, and the heat exchanger is the heat exchanger in the above embodiments.
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In the present disclosure, the diameter of the collecting pipe of, the heat exchanger is smaller, the cavity volume and weight of the collecting pipe are reduced, and the refrigerant charge amount and material cost of the heat exchanger are reduced, or the collecting pipe may also be replaced by the collecting cavity formed by the superposition of the bodies provided with the openings; the heat exchange assembly does not require the bending area, and the length of the heat exchanger does not need to be lengthened, so the refrigerant charge amount and material cost of the heat exchanger are reduced; and an assembly process of a product structure of the present disclosure is unchanged from a related structure, not only an additional process is not increased, but also the assembly processes, caused by the increase of the fins, of the conventional double-row bending microchannel heat exchanger is reduced, so the manufacturing cost of the heat exchanger is reduced.
The above are only the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not used to limit the present disclosure. Various modifications and changes may be made to the present disclosure by those skilled in the art. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure shall be included in a scope of protection of the present disclosure.
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