Abstract: A structure of, and process for making, an improved heat exchanger. The exchanger may be used for heat transfer between air going to a space for human comfort, and humid, cooled air from an evaporative cooling system. The heat exchanger is made from a series of layers of thermoplastic sheeting spaced apart in a stack by uniquely shaped flat-topped dimples formed therein. The plates are joined together at their edges by adhesive and sealants and aerodynamically designed U-shaped clips. The clips are installed in a manner to form alternating channels of cooled and non-cooled air streams flowing perpendicularly to each other in the stack of plates. Special alignment detentes provide easier stacking and assembly of the plates.

Abstract: Parallel flat tubes are juxtaposed in a direction perpendicular to their greater axis, spaced from one another, the internal space of the tubes being divided by intercalary strips of a thermally conducting material into parallel first flowing channels as first flowing paths for a first fluid, a second fluid flowing through spaces between adjacent flat tubes.

Abstract: A CPU heat sink mounting structure includes a cylindrical heat sink having a coupling portion at one end, a retaining plate coupled to the coupling portion of the cylindrical heat sink, the retaining plate having four equiangularly spaced oblong holes, two first hook holes disposed at one side and hooked on respective hooks of the CPU holder at one side, and a locking lever pivoted thereto at an opposite side and turned to lock/unlock the retaining plate and the CPU holder, a holding down plate coupled to the coupling portion of the cylindrical heat sink and retained between the retaining plate and the CPU holder and rotated through an angle relative to the retaining plate to hold down the cylindrical heat sink.

Abstract: A tube heat exchanger intended to be used for the production of carbon black, includes a cylindrical closed chamber having a plurality of tubes which extend through the entire, essentially cylindrically shaped chamber. Upper end of the tubes are attached to an upper end wall, preferably by welding, and hang down to a tube plate. The tube plate equipped with compensating devices to enable thermally induced expansions and contractions of the tubes to occur.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flat tube heat exchanger with two or more flows for motor vehicles with a deflecting (or reversing) bottom for deflecting (or reversing) adjacent flows of the flat tubes. According to the invention, it is provided that the deflecting bottom is resolved into deflecting bowls individually assigned to each flat tube, which bowls are connected to one another only via their connection to the respectively assigned flat tubes. The invention also relates to a process for manufacturing such a flat tube beat exchanger by pulling off, straightening and cutting into sections the flat tubes from a coil, mechanically pre-assembling the flat tube heat exchanger from its structural parts including the flat tubes and soldering or brazing. Here, it is provided that the deflecting bowls are mechanically pre-assembled with the flat tubes after they have been cut into sections and before pre-assembling the flat tube heat exchanger with the flat tubes.

Abstract: A chill plate 30 is described for cooling an electronic control unit (ECU) 20 of an engine. The chill plate 30 comprises a housing 32 having a flat front face onto which the ECU 20 may be mounted, formed with a central pocket 36 for accommodating any components 28 protruding from the rear face of the ECU. The housing also includes flow passages 40 through which fuel may flow around at least part of the periphery of the central pocket 36 to transfer heat to the fuel from the regions of the front face 38 surrounding the pocket 36.

Abstract: A tube is formed by brazing first and second plates, and is connected to a pipe through a connection block being brazed to a contacting surface of the first plate. A brazing material is clad on an inner surface of the first plate opposite to the contacting surface, and a hole penetrating through the first plate is formed in the first plate at a position corresponding to the connection block. Thus, during brazing, the brazing material clad on the inner surface of the first plate is supplied to the contacting surface through the hole by capillary phenomenon, so that the connection block is brazed to the first plate. As a result, an apparatus formed by brazing plural metal members, such as the tube of an oil cooler, is produced in low cost.

Abstract: This cooling apparatus can improve a radiation performance by increasing the boiling area and make it difficult to cause the burnout on boiling faces by filling the boiling faces with a refrigerant necessary for the boiling. In refrigerant chambers for reserving a refrigerant, there are inserted corrugated fins for increasing the boiling area. These corrugated fins are composed of lower corrugated fins arranged to correspond to the lower sides of the boiling faces for receiving the heat of a heating body, and upper corrugated fins arranged to correspond to the upper sides of the boiling faces, and these lower and upper corrugated fins and are individually held in thermal contact with the boiling faces of the refrigerant chambers. The lower corrugated fins and the upper corrugated fins are given a common fin pitch P and are individually inserted vertically in the individual refrigerant chambers to define the individual passages further into a plurality of small passage portions.

Abstract: A method of making an evaporator and the resultant evaporator. The resultant evaporator comprises a continuous serpentine tube having an inlet and an outlet. The serpentine tube includes at least one column of parallel tube runs. Each tube run is defined by at least one reverse bend. The column of parallel tube runs has an overall length defined by the distance between the outermost tube runs. The evaporator further comprises a plurality of inner fins attached to the individual tubes. Each inner fin extends between two tube runs defined by opposite ends of a reverse bend. The inner fins have a length less than the overall length the column of tube runs.

Abstract: The conventional mobile information processing apparatus has a difficulty in conducting heat, which is sent from a heat pipe, throughout a plane of a heat spreading board, due to an inadequate heat conduction to a direction of the plane of the heat spreading board. The present invention implements a heat spreading configuration used in an information processing apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel by effectively using a whole area of the heat spreading board by assembling a thermo-siphon to the heat spreading board and then conducting the heat from CPU, which is a heat generation unit, from the heat pipe to the thermo-siphon.

Abstract: The invention concerns a self-contained temperature transfer interface, used in processing wafers under high temperature and vacuum conditions, for transferring temperature between a substrate and a temperature control seat. The temperature transfer interface comprises first and second spaced apart panel members which are joined together to define a closed interior, and a fluid disposed within the closed interior. The panel members are formed from a flexible, thermally conductive material. The interface may include a peripheral spacer that limits the compressibility of the closed interior.

Abstract: A thermal control system for use in a mobile craft is disclosed. The thermal control system generally includes a structure for supporting one or more heat sources, such as electronic equipment and at least a first heat pipe contained within the structure, the first heat pipe being capable of transferring heat energy from the heat source(s) toward an outboard surface of the structure and/or inhibiting such transfer of heat energy to the outboard surface of the structure, in order to maintain the heat source(s) substantially at room temperatures during operation of such electronics equipment.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus for cooling a heating body such as a CPU by boiling and condensing refrigerant has a tank having a heating body mounting portion on which the CPU is mounted; a porous metallic sintered body arranged in the tank; and refrigerant contained in the tank. The tank has a pair of faced walls including a heat-receiving wall and a radiation wall. The porous metallic sintered body is arranged along the heat-receiving wall, and transports the refrigerant collected at the bottom of the tank to an adjacent portion of the heating body mounting portion by using a capillary action. Since the refrigerant is boiled at such a wide adjacent portion, a superheat degree of the heating body mounting portion can decrease. Furthermore, since the refrigerant collected at the bottom of the tank is transported to the adjacent portion by the capillary action, an area of the radiation wall soaked in the refrigerant becomes small.

Abstract: A finned heat exchanger characterized by disposing main plural raised portions 24a, 24b, 24c only on one side of the surfaces of fins 11, between heat transfer tubes 13 adjacent in the transverse direction, defining the width Wf of the raised portions 24a, 24b, 24c in the principal direction of air stream at about ⅓ of the distance Wb between adjacent raised portions in the principal direction of an air stream, and disposing grooved insulating means such as slits 31, slots 32, or raised portions 33c, 35, 37 in the portion of the fins where there is a temperature difference between fluids flowing in adjacent heat transfer tubes 13 in the principal direction of air stream, said insulating means disposed on the surface of the fins 11 near the middle of the fins between adjacent heat transfer tubes 13 in the principal direction of the air stream to suppress the conduction of heat through the fins caused by fluids flowing in adjacent heat transfer tubes in the principal direction of air stream, and to effec

Abstract: A cooling unit having a first heat sink and a second heat sink. The first heat sink overlaps a heat-generating component. The second heat sink covers the first heat sink. The first heat sink having a plurality of heat-conducting sections extending away from the heat-generating component. The second heat sink has a plurality of heat-receiving sections, in which the heat-conducting sections are inserted. A first gap is provided between the first heat sink and the second heat sink. A second gap is provided between each heat-conducting section and the heat-receiving section in which the heat-conducting section is inserted. The first gap and the second gap are filled with grease having viscosity. The grease thermally connects the first heat sink and the second heat sink.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat pipe circuit type thermal battery which can store, release, and efficiently utilize heat and/or cold. The thermal battery mainly includes an energy storing chamber for containing phase change medium to store or release heat energy via the change of the phase change medium between the solid and liquid phases, a heat pipe circuit formed from a plurality of vertically arranged parallel heat pipes to guide working fluid flowing therein and transfer energy through phase changes of condensing and boiling of the working fluid, and two heat exchangers separately serving as heat source and heat sink. Heat energy contained in flowing fluid in the heat-source heat exchanger is transferred to the working fluid in the heat pipe circuit and then stored in the energy storing chamber. On the other hand, energy stored in the energy storing chamber can be released and transferred to the heat-sink heat exchanger via the heat pipe circuit.

Abstract: An energy system for buildings uses solar absorbers, heat exchangers and heat accumulators, and has the following features to improve the thermal balance of the building: the solar absorber has tubes or pipes laid to form meanders between the roofing and an insulating layer arranged thereunder; the solar absorber is subdivided into at least two zones each with its own liquid circulation system; there is arranged below the building a solid heat-accumulator to which heat can be supplied or removed using embedded tubes or pipes; the heat accumulator is subdivided into at least two zones, i.e.

Abstract: An air conditioning system comprises a heat source side machine, a plurality of user side machines more than half of which are disposed below the heat source side machine, and liquid phase and gas phase pipes connecting the heat source side machine with the user side machines to form a closed circuit. A phase-changeable fluid included in the closed circuit circulates by utilizing its own specific gravity difference between the liquid and gas phases, so that each of the user side machines can perform cooling and heating operations. The liquid phase pipe and the gas phase pipe can communicate with each other via a gas bypass circuit and/or a liquid bypass circuit including a open-close valve and liquid level detection means, so that bubbles or condensed liquid generated in the closed circuit can be exhausted quickly.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger which is constructed such that heat-transfer plates S1, S2 in the form of a quadrilateral are bent at fold lines in a zigzag fashion to form combustion gas passages 4 and air passages 5 alternately in a circumferential direction, arrangement is made to enhance material yield and to facilitate brazing of components for formation of a fluid duct. Thus radially outer peripheral walls 6, 8o, 10o and radially inner peripheral walls 7, 8i, 10i, respectively, are brazed to fold lines at outer peripheries and inner peripheries of the heat-transfer plates S1, S2 to form a duct 13 continuous to a combustion gas inlet 11, a duct 14 continuous to a combustion gas outlet 12, a duct 17 continuous to an air passage inlet 15, and a duct 18 continuous to an air passage outlet 16.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved heat pipe construction. The heat pipe includes a tubular enclosure with upper and lower ends enclosed by end caps. One such end cap employs a communication port such that a working fluid can be introduced into the interior of the pipe. Water is disclosed as the working fluid in the preferred embodiment. The water is adapted absorb heat from the surrounding atmosphere evaporate and condense it the upper portion of the pipe. Typically, a portion of the water reacts with the container to evolve non-condensable hydrogen gas. Such gas diminishes the effectiveness of the heat pipe. To reduce the hydrogen gas a active agent is employed. The opposite end cap of the pipe includes a container into which a volume of the active agent is positioned. A preferred active agent composition includes 96 percent by weight PbOx and 4 percent by weight PbSo4. The PbOx is preferably electrochemically formed, with x varying between 1.85 and 2.05.