Vehicle Hollow-Profile Cooling Assembly for Replaceable Heat Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle cooling systems require significant energy, cannot be further cooled at high loads, occupy large space, and are difficult to replace due to permanent installation.
Innovation Solution
A cooling device arrangement featuring a vehicle body element with a hollow profile that accommodates a cooling device with an inner profile component, allowing form-fitting insertion and removal without adhesives, utilizing thermally conductive materials for heat absorption and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cooling systems are permanently installed and bonded in place, then reliability is improved, but ease of repair deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling system is divided into modular cooling units that can be independently installed and removed from the hollow profile. Each cooling unit functions as a separate module, allowing defective units to be replaced without affecting the entire cooling system, thus improving ease of repair while maintaining system reliability through modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooling units are designed with dynamic installation and removal capabilities, transitioning from permanent bonded installation to reversible form-fitting insertion. This allows the system to adapt between stable operation during use and easy maintenance during replacement, resolving the contradiction between reliability and ease of repair.
2Stability of the object's composition
If cooling devices use traditional bonding installation, then stability is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The bonding process is replaced with a mechanical form-fitting insertion system. The cooling device features precisely engineered dimensions that allow it to be inserted into and held by the hollow profile through geometric interlocking, eliminating the need for adhesive bonding and the associated precision requirements for surface preparation and bonding application.
Solution Approach 2:
The installation method transitions from chemical bonding with specific tolerance requirements to mechanical insertion with form-fitting dimensional parameters. This changes the critical parameters from bonding surface quality to insertion geometry, simplifying manufacturing while maintaining stability.
3Power
If cooling systems are designed for high cooling capacity, then cooling performance is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cooling channels are merged with the hollow profile structure itself, utilizing the existing profile cavity as the cooling passage. This integration eliminates separate cooling channels and reduces structural complexity while maintaining high cooling capacity through direct thermal coupling between the profile and cooling fluid.
Solution Approach 2:
The hollow profile serves multiple functions: structural support and cooling fluid passage. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed, simplifying the overall system structure while enabling high cooling capacity through the integrated design.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Reduces space requirements, enables easy installation and replacement, and effectively manages temperature peaks by absorbing and storing heat, improving cooling efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
The inner profile component can be made of a thermally conductive and/or heat-storing material that can, in particular, absorb and temporarily store heat from the heat transfer fluid
Implementation Method 2
The inner profile component can be made of a thermally conductive and/or heat-storing material
Implementation Method 3
the inner profile component can include additional heat storage components, such as a phase-change heat storage device or a latent heat storage device
Implementation Method 4
the inner profile component can include additional heat storage components, such as a phase-change heat storage device or a latent heat storage device
Implementation Method 5
with the heat being released again after the temperature peak has passed
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AI summary
The invention relates to a cooling device arrangement (10) comprising a vehicle body element (14) with a hollow profile that provides a receiving space; and a cooling device (12) comprising an inner profile component (16) on the outer surface of which a transport channel (24) is provided through which a heat transfer fluid can flow; wherein the dimensions of the cooling device (12) are adapted to the hollow profile in such a way that the cooling device (12) can be inserted into the receiving space of the hollow profile and is held in the receiving space in a form-fitting manner and without adhesive bonding.