An intercooler assembly for a vehicle includes an intercooler, and a duct connected to a front side of the intercooler and guiding outside air to the intercooler. The duct is in surface-contact with an outer surface of the intercooler, at which the air flowing into the duct flows out to the intercooler.

A hot gas path component of an industrial machine includes a cooling pathway with a lattice structure therein. The component and lattice structure are made by additive manufacturing. The component includes an outer surface exposed to a working fluid having a high temperature; a thermal barrier coating over the outer surface; an internal cooling circuit; and a cooling pathway in communication with the internal cooling circuit and extending towards the outer surface. A lattice structure is in the cooling pathway at the outer surface. The lattice structure is configured to support the thermal barrier coating over the cooling pathway and in response to a spall in the thermal barrier coating occurring over the cooling pathway, allow a cooling medium from the internal cooling circuit to pass therethrough.

A hot gas path component of an industrial machine includes a cooling pathway. The component includes a body including an outer surface; a thermal barrier coating (TBC) over the outer surface, the TBC exposed to a working fluid having a high temperature; and an internal cooling circuit in the body carrying a cooling medium. A cooling pathway is in the body and in fluid communication with the internal cooling circuit. The cooling pathway includes a terminating end in the body and a length extending along and spaced internally from the outer surface by a first spacing. In response to a spall in the TBC occurring at a location over the cooling pathway and the high temperature reaching or exceeding a predetermined temperature of the body, the cooling pathway opens at the location through the first spacing to allow a flow of the cooling medium therethrough.

A charge air cooler shroud mounting system is provided. The charge air cooler shroud has a body having a four point attachment system including a mounting aperture, a first lug, a second lug and a third lug. The mounting aperture provides a fixed point of attachment while the lugs provide a plurality of floating points of attachment.

An apparatus is provided for an intercooler to maximize air flow to a turbocharger. The intercooler comprises an intercooler core comprising an alternating arrangement of air flow passageways and charge flow passageways. The air flow passageways receive an ambient air flow and the charge flow passageways receive a charge flow, such that heat is transferred from the charge flow to the ambient air flow and removed from the intercooler. A first end tank sealed to a hot side of the intercooler core conducts the charge flow received at a hot fluid inlet to the intercooler core. A second end tank sealed to a cool side of the intercooler core conducts the charge flow from the intercooler core to a cool fluid outlet. A multiplicity of partitions disposed on the hot and cool sides of the intercooler core are configured to promote a laminar flow through the charge flow passageways.

An air-to-air charge air cooler for cooling air supplied to an internal combustion engine includes a tube assembly including a plurality of tubes extending in a longitudinal direction. The plurality of tubes is arranged adjacent to one another. Each of the plurality of tubes includes an inlet to receive airflow and an outlet to output airflow. A turbulator is arranged in at least one of the plurality of tubes, the turbulator having a pitch defined in a direction transverse to airflow through the tube. The pitch varies in at least one of a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the tube.

A compensate water discharger coupled to, or integrally formed with, an intercooler may comprise a man body coupled to a tube of the intercooler and configured to collect compensate water in the tube, a collecting hole formed in an upper part of the main body and configured to provide a path along which the compensate water is collected from the tube to the main body, a discharging door formed in a side of the main body to discharge the compensate water to an outside, and a solenoid valve configured to open or close the discharging door.

A system and methods for routing condensate collected in a heat exchanger reservoir to either an air intake system or a position in the engine exhaust based on the type of contaminate in the condensate and operating parameters of the engine or the catalyst are described. In one particular example, condensate is routed to a first position along the engine air intake system in a first mode of operation, and a second position upstream of the catalyst along the engine exhaust in a second mode of operation, and a third position downstream of the catalyst along the engine exhaust in a third mode of operation. When substantially no contaminates are detected, the condensate may be routed into the engine exhaust upstream of the catalyst in order to cool the catalyst.

An air-to-air aftercooler (ATAAC) configured to cool compressed air from an air compressor is disclosed. The ATAAC may comprise a first header. The first header may include a plurality of slots each having a recessed groove. The ATAAC may further comprise a plurality of core tubes each including a first end inserted in a respective one of the slots of the first header. The ATAAC may further comprise a plurality of mechanical joints each connecting the first end of one of the core tubes to the first header. Each of the mechanical joints may include a C-ring inserted in the recessed groove of one of the slots, and a clamp clamping the core tube to the first header. The C-ring and the clamp may both be formed from a metallic material.

The present disclosure relates to an air-to-air charge air cooler (CAC) for cooling air supplied to an internal combustion engine. The CAC may have a housing and a plurality of trays located in the housing. A first one of the trays may include a first turbulator having a first internal configuration. A second one of the trays may include a second turbulator having a second internal configuration different from the first internal configuration.