Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy material which is used as a core material for an aluminum alloy brazing sheet and has superior strength at a high temperature. The aluminum alloy material of the present invention is used as a core material C1 for an aluminum alloy brazing sheet B31 (or B32) which has a filler alloy F formed on at least one side of the core material C1. The aluminum alloy material contains more than 2.5% by mass and 3.5% by mass or less of Cu, and the balance being made of aluminum and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger in which the number of parts is small, assembling is easy, bonded portions between each part are fewer and reliability of brazing is improved, a core body is constituted by turning up and bending a strip-shaped metal plate in a fanfold manner, and first flow passages and second flow passages are formed alternately in the thickness direction. Both ends of each of the first flow passages are blocked by each comb tooth of a pair of comb-state members, and a fin is set within the second flow passages so as to constitute a core. And a cylindrical casing is fitted with the outer periphery of the core body, and the casing is constituted by a channel-state material covering three faces of the outer periphery of the core body and a lid material blocking an opening of the channel-state material.

Abstract: The steam reformer has a double-cylinder structure having an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder surrounding the inner cylinder. The inner cylinder contains a high-temperature reaction section and an adjacent section being adjacent to the high-temperature reaction section. The high-temperature reaction section contains a mixed-catalyst bed prepared by mixing a steam reforming catalyst and an oxidation catalyst, and an oxygen-containing gas introduction section. A heat transfer suppresser is structured to suppress heat transfer from the high-temperature reaction section to the adjacent section or to the oxygen-containing gas introduction section. With the heat-transfer suppressor, the thermal diffusion from the high-temperature reaction section to peripheral area is effectively suppressed.

Abstract: The system is a self-oxidation internal heating steam reforming system for conducting self-oxidation of a raw material gas under the presence of oxygen and conducting steam reforming to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas. The system includes a steam generator including a combustion section for combusting an air-fuel mixture obtained by mixing a combustion air with a fuel, thereby heating water using a combustion gas generated in the combustion section to generate hydrogen; a first sucking-mixer for sucking the raw material gas into a steam stream coming from the steam generator to obtain a raw material-steam mixture; and a reformer for oxidizing the raw material gas in the raw material-steam mixture by an oxygen-containing gas supplied from outside, thereby conducting steam reforming of the raw material gas using the reaction heat of the oxidation to generate a hydrogen-rich reformed gas.

Abstract: The invention relates to integrating a first multimedia work and a second multimedia work to produce a combined multimedia work. The first and/or second multimedia works are converted into a common format such as SWF format, and the first multimedia work is converted to a sub-movie. The converted first multimedia work is inserted into the second multimedia work as a sub-movie of the second multimedia work to produce a combined multimedia work. Instructions in the combined multimedia work are updated in order to maintain the function of those instructions following the combination of the two works.

Abstract: To provide an EGR cooler which has a small number of parts and achieves compact design with low cost. A plurality of flat tubes, each having a bottom to close an end thereof, is arranged in parallel. An opening of each of the flat tubes penetrates through a tube plate. Corrugated fins are placed in each of the flat tubes, thus forming a core. A casing encloses the outer circumferential surface of the core. The tube plate closes the opening of a tank body equipped with a partition. The edge of the partition is placed at an intermediate position in the width direction of the opening of the flat tube.

Abstract: A double-pipe heat exchanger that is easy to manufacture, and the whole thereof is smoothly bent to serve as part of the piping, and that provides high pressure resistance, wherein an inner tube has a section orthogonal to an axis line thereof in which a plurality of swollen portions in a bladder-like or balloon-like shape in section are formed in a radial direction from the center, mouths of these swollen portions are closed, and the tip ends of respective swollen portions are in contact with the inner surface of an outer tube.

Abstract: A double pipe heat exchanger that can be produced easily and can be used as a part of piping by bending the whole body, wherein an inner pipe is configured so that: a plurality of balloon-shaped bulges communicating with one another and extending from the center toward the radial directions in a cross section orthogonal to the axis line thereof may be formed; the outer circumference of the bulges may be bent into the shape of waves in an axial cross section; and the top portions of the waves may touch the inner surface of an outer pipe. Then in the state, the whole body including the inner pipe and the outer pipe is bent by applying external force.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger in which the number of parts is small, assembling is easy, bonded portions of each part are fewer and reliability of brazing is improved, a core body is constituted by turning up and bending a strip-shaped metal plate in a fanfold manner, and first flow passages and second flow passages are formed alternately in the thickness direction. Both ends of each of the first flow passages are blocked by each come tooth of a pair of comb-state members, and a fin is set within the second flow passages so as to constitute a core. And in the heat exchanger in which a cylindrical casing is fitted with the outer periphery of the core body, the comb-state member has its tooth base crossing perpendicularly with each of the comb tooth and a root of each comb tooth bent in the L-shape along the tooth base, the plane of the tooth base is brought into contact with a turned-up end edge, and each connection portion between the comb-state member and the core body is integrally brazed/fixed.

Abstract: This invention is structured by: forming a core body by turning-up a strip-shaped metal plate in fanfold manner to create a large number of flat flow passages; blocking the individual flow passages at both ends thereof using the respective comb teeth of a pair of comb-state members; and fitting the casing to the core body, while providing inlet/outlet port of the fluid at a side face of the casing. The object of the invention is to establish uniform communication of the fluid in individual flat flow passages.

Abstract: A bypass duct portion is integrally provided in a casing of an EGR cooler so that heat distortion generated at a part of the casing when bypassing of an exhaust gas is rationally absorbed, and the EGR cooler body and a valve case are brazed/fixed all together so as to improve strength of the valve case, whereby, the bypass duct portion is formed between an inner surface of the casing and the core, a switch is provided for switching and guiding the exhaust gas to either of the core or the bypass duct portion, and a large number of outer ribs formed in the circumferential direction respectively are arranged side by side while being separated from each other in the longitudinal direction in the bypass duct portion of the casing so as to constitute a heat stress absorbing portion.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger having a casing in which a joint of the casing and between a core and the casing are brazed and fixed without a gap, the section of a portion in contact with the casing body is formed at a right angle at both ends of an upper edge portion of a header plate, and an upper lid is fitted so that it is brought into contact with the upper edge of the header plate over the entire length.

Abstract: In order to provide a heat exchanger with casing having a multiplicity of tubes through the interiors of which a high-temperature gas for heating flows, wherein the thermal stress is smoothly accommodated and wherein a fluid to be heated or a heating fluid flows uniformly through the outsides of the tubes, a multiplicity of flat tubes are joined at their opposed ends to a pair of discoidal tube plates, the outer periphery of the flat tubes being enclosed by an inner cylinder having a rectangular cross-section except the opposed end portions of the flat tubes, with a pair of baffle plates being disposed at the opposed ends of the inner cylinder. The pair of baffle plates are covered with an circular outer cylinder having a corrugated portion that is thermally expandable, with an inlet and an outlet for the fluid to be heated or the heating fluid positioned between the pair of baffle plates and the tube plates.

Abstract: A short cylindrical connection cup is fitted and brazed to a pipe fitting port of a metallic tank. Afterward, the extremity of a resin pipe is inserted via an O-ring into the connection cup, and a caulking claw of the connection cup is caulked to press a flanged portion of the resin pipe.

Abstract: An aluminum flat tube for a heat exchanger is fabricated from an aluminum strip-shaped material which is structured by a core material coated with a sacrificial anode material on the inner face thereof and coated with a brazing filler metal on the outer face thereof by bending in the width direction to form a nearly B-shaped flat cross section. To improve the corrosion resistance of the inner face of the tube, the both edge parts of the strip-shaped material in the width direction thereof are bent inward into the tube so as the front end edge of the edge part to become apart from the flat inner face of the tube.

Abstract: The present invention provides an EGR cooler that is easy to manufacture and can accelerate heat exchange. Round in section tubes are plastically deformed in one plane crossing centerlines thereof such that corrugated exhaust gas flow paths are formed inside the tubes.

Abstract: A plate type heat exchanger employing flat tubes, which can be manufactured easily and which have a high heat exchange performance includes a thin strip-shaped metal plate cut in the width direction and having remaining small connected portions and many cut portions disposed at fixed intervals in the longitudinal direction slits are formed in both sides of the cut potions having the same center. The strip-shaped metal plate is bent at the connected portions in a zigzag manner to form an aggregation of fin elements, and the flat tubes are engaged with the front and rear sides of the aggregation of the fin elements.

Abstract: A pressure valve including a valve seat 3 is mounted on a cap body 8 side. The cap body 8 and a filler neck 6 are fastened together in an anti-disengagement manner by use of locking means.