1. A door handle system for a door of a vehicle, said door handle system comprising:
a door handle assembly configured to mount at a handle region of a vehicle door of a vehicle equipped with said door handle system;
wherein said door handle assembly comprises a handle portion disposed at the vehicle door and movable to open the vehicle door;
a locking mechanism operable to lock and unlock the vehicle door;
a control of the equipped vehicle;
a near field communication device of the equipped vehicle;
wherein a system of the equipped vehicle authenticates a near field communication-enabled smartphone as an authorized device for communicating with said near field communication device;
wherein said near field communication device is operable to receive signals from a near field communication-enabled smartphone when the near field communication-enabled smartphone is within a threshold distance from said near field communication device;
wherein, responsive to the near field communication-enabled smartphone that is communicating with said near field communication device being an authorized device, said control actuates said locking mechanism to unlock the vehicle door;
an illumination module comprising at least one illumination source;
wherein said illumination module comprises a housing and a circuit element disposed in said housing and wherein said illumination source is established at said circuit element;
wherein said illumination module comprises an optic element disposed in said housing and generally at said illumination source, and wherein said optic element comprises a condensing optic and a diffusing optic at least partially around said condensing optic;
wherein said illumination module comprises a lens element disposed at said housing and comprising a projecting portion disposed generally in line with the condensing optic and an illumination portion at least partially around said projecting portion and generally in line with said diffusing optic;
wherein, when said illumination source is activated, light emanating from said illumination source (a) passes through said diffusing optic and through said illumination portion of said lens element to provide lower intensity light at a target area, and (b) passes through said condensing optic and is intensified by said condensing optic so that light passing through said projecting portion of said lens element is projected as higher intensity light onto a portion of said target area; and
wherein said illumination module comprises an icon element disposed along the optic path between said condensing optic and said projecting portion of said lens element, and wherein an image of an icon of said icon element is projected onto said portion of said target area.
2. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said control, responsive to a communication from the authorized device to said near field communication device, is operable to control at least one accessory of the vehicle.
3. The door handle system of claim 2, wherein control of said at least one accessory comprises at least one of (i) opening a decklid of the vehicle, (ii) activating an alarm of the vehicle, (iii) activating a light of the vehicle, (iv) starting the vehicle’s engine and (v) loading personalized presets of a user of the authorized device.
4. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said near field communication device comprises a near field communication chip.
5. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said near field communication device is located at an exterior rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle.
6. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said control is located at said door handle assembly.
7. The door handle system of claim 6, wherein said near field communication device is located at said door handle assembly.
8. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said illumination module is disposed at an end region of said handle portion.
9. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said illumination module is operable to provide ground illumination.
10. The door handle system of claim 1, wherein said control, responsive to a communication from the authorized device to said near field communication device, is operable to actuate said illumination source of said illumination module.
11. A door handle system for a door of a vehicle, said door handle system comprising:
a door handle assembly configured to mount at a handle region of a vehicle door of a vehicle equipped with said door handle system;
wherein said door handle assembly comprises a handle portion disposed at the vehicle door and movable to open the vehicle door;
a control of the equipped vehicle;
a near field communication device of the equipped vehicle;
wherein a system of the equipped vehicle authenticates a near field communication-enabled smartphone as an authorized device for communicating with said near field communication device;
wherein said near field communication device is operable to receive signals from a near field communication-enabled smartphone when the near field communication-enabled smartphone is within a threshold distance from said near field communication device;
wherein, responsive to the near field communication-enabled smartphone that is within the threshold distance and that is communicating with said near field communication device being an authorized device, and responsive to a communication from the authorized device, said control is operable to control at least one accessory of the vehicle;
wherein control of said at least one accessory comprises at least one of (i) actuating a locking mechanism to unlock the vehicle door, (ii) opening a decklid of the vehicle, (iii) activating an alarm of the vehicle, (iv) activating a light of the vehicle, (v) starting the vehicle’s engine and (vi) loading personalized presets of a user of the authorized device;
an illumination module comprising at least one illumination source;
wherein said illumination module comprises a housing and a circuit element disposed in said housing and wherein said illumination source is established at said circuit element;
wherein said illumination module comprises an optic element disposed in said housing and generally at said illumination source, and wherein said optic element comprises a condensing optic and a diffusing optic at least partially around said condensing optic;
wherein said illumination module comprises a lens element disposed at said housing and comprising a projecting portion disposed generally in line with the condensing optic and an illumination portion at least partially around said projecting portion and generally in line with said diffusing optic;
wherein, when said illumination source is activated, light emanating from said illumination source (a) passes through said diffusing optic and through said illumination portion of said lens element to provide lower intensity light at a target area, and (b) passes through said condensing optic and is intensified by said condensing optic so that light passing through said projecting portion of said lens element is projected as higher intensity light onto a portion of said target area; and
wherein said illumination module comprises an icon element disposed along the optic path between said condensing optic and said projecting portion of said lens element, and wherein an image of an icon of said icon element is projected onto said portion of said target area.
12. The door handle system of claim 11, wherein said near field communication device comprises a near field communication chip.
13. The door handle system of claim 11, wherein said near field communication device is located at an exterior rearview mirror assembly of the vehicle.
14. The door handle system of claim 11, wherein at least one of (i) said control is located at said door handle assembly and (ii) said near field communication device is located at said door handle assembly.
15. The door handle system of claim 11, wherein control of said at least one accessory comprises activating said at least one illumination source.
16. A door handle system for a door of a vehicle, said door handle system comprising:
a door handle assembly configured to mount at a handle region of a vehicle door of a vehicle equipped with said door handle system;
wherein said door handle assembly comprises a handle portion disposed at the vehicle door and movable to open the vehicle door;
a control of the equipped vehicle;
a near field communication device of the equipped vehicle;
wherein a system of the equipped vehicle authenticates a near field communication-enabled smartphone as an authorized device for communicating with said near field communication device;
wherein said near field communication device is operable to receive signals from a near field communication-enabled smartphone when the near field communication-enabled smartphone is within a threshold distance from said near field communication device;
wherein said control and said near field communication device are part of said door handle assembly;
wherein, responsive to the near field communication-enabled smartphone that is within the threshold distance and that is communicating with said near field communication device being an authorized device, and responsive to a communication from the authorized device, said control is operable to control at least one accessory of the vehicle;
wherein control of said at least one accessory comprises at least one of (i) actuating a locking mechanism to unlock the vehicle door, (ii) opening a decklid of the vehicle, (iii) activating an alarm of the vehicle, (iv) activating a light of the vehicle, (v) starting the vehicle’s engine and (vi) loading personalized presets of a user of the authorized device;
an illumination module comprising at least one illumination source;
wherein said illumination module comprises a housing and a circuit element disposed in said housing and wherein said illumination source is established at said circuit element;
wherein said illumination module comprises an optic element disposed in said housing and generally at said illumination source, and wherein said optic element comprises a condensing optic and a diffusing optic at least partially around said condensing optic;
wherein said illumination module comprises a lens element disposed at said housing and comprising a projecting portion disposed generally in line with the condensing optic and an illumination portion at least partially around said projecting portion and generally in line with said diffusing optic;
wherein, when said illumination source is activated, light emanating from said illumination source (a) passes through said diffusing optic and through said illumination portion of said lens element to provide lower intensity light at a target area, and (b) passes through said condensing optic and is intensified by said condensing optic so that light passing through said projecting portion of said lens element is projected as higher intensity light onto a portion of said target area; and
wherein said illumination module comprises an icon element disposed along the optic path between said condensing optic and said projecting portion of said lens element, and wherein an image of an icon of said icon element is projected onto said portion of said target area.
17. The door handle system of claim 16, wherein said near field communication device comprises a near field communication chip.
18. The door handle system of claim 16, wherein said control, responsive to multiple communications from the authorized device, is operable to control accessories associated with the respective communications.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A condenser (2) for condensing a vaporous fluid, with at least one bundle (10), the bundle comprising a multiplicity of tubes (12) arranged parallel to one another, the tubes (12) having a first fluid flowing through them and the vaporous fluid flowing around them, characterized in that a condensate discharge element (60, 80) is arranged in the bundle (10), the condensate discharge element forming approximately a right angle with the isobars (52) of the fluid flow flowing around the tubes.
2. The condenser as claimed in claim 1, the condensate discharge element being a condensate discharge plane, preferably a condensate discharge plate.
3. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, the tubes (12) being arranged in rows, and the rows being arranged in a layered arrangement one above the other in each case so as to be offset to one another by one offset step, the offset step being preferably equal to half the distance (d) between two tube center axes, and the condensate discharge plane (60) being arranged in the bundle approximately at an offset angle corresponding to the offset step.
4. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, the condensate discharge plane (60) arranged in the bundle having a first surface (66) facing the tubes and a second surface (64) opposite the first surface (66), the condensate accumulating on the first surface (66), and the condensate discharge plane (60) being arranged in the bundle (10) in such a way that the distance between the first surface (66) and the tubes facing the first surface is larger than the distance between the second surface (64) and the tubes facing the second surface, preferably in a ratio of two to one.
5. The condenser as claimed in one of claims 2 to 4, a collecting groove (62a-62d) being arranged at a lower end of the condensate discharge plane (60).
6. The condenser as claimed in one of claims 2 to 5, the bundle (10) having arranged in it a void (40) which is connected to a region outside the bundle by means of an outflow for the outflow of condensate, and the condensate discharge plane (60) being arranged in such a way that the condensate is led into this void (40) by means of the condensate discharge plane (60).
7. The condenser as claimed in one of claims 2 to 6, the condensate discharge plane (60) being arranged in such a way that the condensate is led out of the interior of the bundle onto the outside of the bundle.
8. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, the void (40) being arranged in the middle of the bundle (10), and two condensate discharge planes (60c, 60d), which extend in each case from an outer side of the bundle to the void (40) and lead the condensate into the void (40), being arranged in an upper region (16) of the bundle in an arrangement symmetrical to the center plane (30) of the bundle, and two further condensate discharge planes (60a, 60b), which extend in each case from the void (40) of the bundle to an outer side of the bundle and lead the condensate onto the respective outer side of the bundle, being arranged in a lower region (14) of the bundle in an arrangement likewise symmetrical to the center plane (30) of the bundle.
9. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, a condensate discharge duct (80a, 80b) being arranged as a condensate discharge element in the bundle (10), and the condensate discharge duct (80a, 80b) having at least one condensate inlet orifice (88a, 88b) and at least one condensate outlet orifice (90a, 90b).
10. The condenser as claimed in claim 9, an air cooler (20) being arranged in the bundle (10), preferably level with the waistline of the bundle, and the condensate discharge duct (80a, 80b) being arranged on the air cooler (20).
11. The condenser as claimed in one of claims 9 or 10, the condensate discharge duct (80a, 80b) extending from an outer side of the bundle to a void (40) arranged in the bundle.
12. The condenser as claimed in claim 11, the void (40) being arranged in the middle of the bundle, and two condensate discharge ducts (88a, 88b) extending in each case from an outer side of the bundle to the void (40) in an arrangement symmetrical to the center plane (30) of the bundle.
13. The condenser as claimed in claim 12, the condensate discharge ducts (88a, 88b) being connected to one another by means of an intermediate element (92) which extends over the region of the void (40).
14. The condenser as claimed in one of claims 9 to 13, the top side (82a, 82b) of the condensate discharge duct (80a, 80b) being designed as a condensate discharge plane.
15. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, the bundle (10) being a bundle designed on the church window principle.
16. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, the bundle (10) having a height about four times its maximum width, and preferably a two-part air cooler (20) being arranged in the bundle (10), preferably in a symmetrical arrangement, level with the waistline of the bundle.
17. The condenser as claimed in one of the preceding claims, steam flowing into the bundle (10) from all sides, and the steam which flows into the bundle from all sides having to overcome approximately the same flow resistance between the outside of the bundle and the air cooler.