Abstract: Disclosed is a calcination apparatus, including: a calcination tube having open ends at both terminals; a pair of hoods, each hood covering each open end of the calcination tube; and a pair of rings, each ring sealing a gap between the calcination tube and the hood, wherein the rings are directly or indirectly fixed on an outer surface of the calcination tube; a groove is provided along a circumferential direction of the ring at a contact surface side between the ring and the hood; a sealed chamber surrounded by the hood and the groove is formed; and both the calcination tube and the rings rotate in a circumferential direction of the calcination tube while keeping the hood in contact with both sides of the groove.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas heat exchange device includes an inflow portion, a first outflow portion, a second outflow portion and a flow-rate adjustment portion. The inflow portion is provided on one end side of a casing that a cooling medium flows into a cooling medium passage. The first outflow portion is provided on the other end side of the casing so that the cooling medium flows out of the cooling medium passage. Moreover, the second outflow portion is provided on the one side of the cooling medium passage and at a position opposed to the inflow portion. The flow-rate adjustment portion is provided so as to generally allow the cooling medium to flow out through the first outflow portion and of the second outflow portion, and to adjust a ratio of flow rates of the cooling medium flowing out through the first outflow portion and the second outflow portion.

Abstract: A tube is composed of a first plate and a second plate which are opposed and engaged with each other. In a first region on both end sides of the tube, the first plate is formed into a shape in which an edge portion of the first plate is laid along a bent portion of the second plate so that an outer wall face of the tube forms a continuous face. In a second region of the tube, the first plate is formed into a shape in which the edge portion of the first plate is laid between the edge portion of the second plate and the bent portion of the second plate.

Abstract: An infrared emitting diode that can be utilized as a high power and rapidly responsive infrared light source for both infrared and remote control communications is disclosed which comprises at least one p-type clad layer containing AlxGa1-xAs of p type where 0.15?x?0.45, an active layer containing AlyGa1-yAs of p type where 0?y?0.01 and at least one n-type clad layer containing AlzGa1-zAs where 0.15?z?0.45 wherein said active layer has a thickness of 2 to 6 ?m and which has an emission peak wavelength of 880 to 890 nm at room temperature.

Abstract: The inventive entrance/exit piping structure 20 for an intercooler 10 is formed of a plurality of pipes 21 to 24, the pipe end portions 20a, 20b are bundled together to have a circular contour and, in a middle portion 20c, the respective pipes are arranged adjacent to each other and are bent together.

Abstract: A brazing filler metal includes quaternary alloy powder and copper powder. The quaternary allow powder consists of from 0.1 to 27.4 mass percent tin, from 0.8 to 5.1 mass percent nickel, from 2.2 to 10.9 mass percent phosphorous and a balance including copper and any unavoidable impurity. The brazing filler metal can be used in a form of paste by being mixed with an organic binder and an organic solvent. The brazing filler metal and the brazing filler metal can be used for joining members made of copper or copper alloy, such as members of a heat exchanger.

Abstract: In an exhaust gas heat exchanger for a system where a compressing means is located upstream of an internal combustion engine, and a part of exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine flows into the intake gas at a merge part located upstream of the compressing means, the exhaust gas heat exchanger includes a heat exchanging member. The heat exchanging member is provided adjacently to the merge part, and exchanges heat between the intake gas and the part of the exhaust gas such that the part of the exhaust gas is cooled by the intake gas.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger, a tube is adapted to exchange heat between a first fluid flowing therein and a second fluid flowing through outside of the tube, and an inner fin is disposed in the tube to divide a flow passage in the tube into a plurality of flow paths. The inner fin includes a plurality of fin portions with different specifications, and the fin portions are arranged in series with respect to a flow direction of the first fluid. Furthermore, the fin portion with the smallest flowing resistance of the first fluid among the plurality of fin portions is arranged on an upstream side of the flow direction of the first fluid with respect to at least an another fin portion. Accordingly, heat exchange performance in the entire heat exchanger can be effectively improved.

Abstract: An infrared emitting diode that can be utilized as a high power and rapidly responsive infrared light source for both infrared and remote control communications is disclosed which comprises at least one p-type clad layer containing AlxGa1-xAs of p type where 0.15?x?0.45, an active layer containing AlyGa1-yAs of p type where 0?y?0.01 and at least one n-type clad layer containing AlzGa1-zAs where 0.15?z?0.45 wherein said active layer has a thickness of 2 to 6 ?m and which has an emission peak wavelength of 880 to 890 nm at room temperature.

Abstract: In a brazing method, tubes for a heat exchanger, in which an inner fluid flows and exchanges heat with an outer fluid, are bonded to fins for expanding a heat exchange area at a time of exchanging the heat, by using a brazing material of paste form. The method includes a mounting step of stacking the tubes and the fins alternately in layers to form an assembly, a coating step of coating portions near outside abutting portions where the tubes abut on the fins with the brazing material after the mounting step, and a brazing step of carrying the assembly coated with the brazing material in the coating step into a brazing furnace and of brazing the tubes to the fins.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising: a plurality of tubes inside of which a fluid passes; fins which are joined to the outer surfaces of the tubes and promote heat exchange between a fluid passing around the tubes and the fluid passing through inside the tube; and tank sections comprising core plates having insertion holes formed for the tubes to be inserted therein and tank bodies having the core plates joined thereto for distributing or collecting the fluid to be passed through the tubes; the tube comprises a first and a second tube plates joined in opposition to each other and inner fins disposed between the first and second tube plates, and that the portion of the tube to be inserted into the insertion hole of the core plate has generally the same outer shape as the periphery of the insertion hole, and that the portions of the first and second tube plates not to be inserted into the insertion hole of the core plate have overlapping sections which overlap each other in laminating direction of the tubes.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a core including tubes and a core plate coupled to the core. The core plate has a coupling wall on which tube insertion holes are formed for receiving ends of the tubes. The coupling wall has an end portion and a clearance portion both coupled to the tubes. The clearance portion is integrally connected to the end portion and spaced from an imaginary plane, on which the end portion is located. A paste brazing material is applied to a joining portion between the core plate and each tube by a brazing material applying device through a space provided between the clearance portion and the imaginary plane.

Abstract: A tube 2 is composed of a first plate 6 and a second plate 7 which are opposed and engaged with each other. In a region C on both end sides of the tube 2, the first plate 6 is formed into a shape in which an edge portion 6a of the first plate is laid along a bent portion 7b of the second plate so that an outer wall face of the tube will be composed of continuous face. In a region D except for both end sides of the tube 2, the first plate 6 is formed into a shape in which the edge portion 6a of the first plate 6 is laid between the edge portion 7a of the second plate 7 and the bent portion 7b.

Abstract: A method of brazing different types of metals by a low melting point brazing material is provided. First, a surface of a first metal member is covered by a material enabling brazing with a second metal member along with diffusion of a brazing material. Next, a low melting point brazing material is arranged at the covered surface. Further, the low melting point brazing material is made to melt.

Abstract: A heat exchanger (20) includes a plurality of tubes (23) with a fluid flowing therein and header tanks (21) arranged at the longitudinal ends of the tubes (23) and comunicating with the plurality of the tubes (23). The header tanks (21) each include a core plate (27) coupled with the tubes (23) and a tank body (31) coupled to straight portions (29) holding the joints of the core plate (27) with the tubes (23) and forming an internal space of the tank together with the core plate (27). The cross section of the each header tank (21) configured of the core plate (27) and the tank body (31) is in the shape of an ellipse or a polygon similar to an ellipse, and the aspect ratio of the ellipse inscribed in the cross section of the header tank (21) is between 0.95 and 1.05 inclusive. Thus, the header tanks of the heat exchanger have a strength capable of sufficiently resisting an increased supercharge pressure.

Abstract: An outlet/inlet piping structure of an intercooler according to the invention has a construction in which an outlet/inlet piping 5 is branched in such a fashion as to possess a plurality of flow passages from one of the flow passages of a distal end position 5a spaced apart from a header tank 4 of an intercooler to a connection portion 5b to the header tank so that a fluid pressure loss does not substantially occur in the flow between the distal end position and the connection portion. In other words, a ratio of a sectional area of the flow passage of the connection portion to a sectional area of the connection portion of the far end portion is at least 78%.

Abstract: The inventive entrance/exit piping structure 20 for an intercooler 10 is formed of a plurality of pipes 21 to 24, the pipe end portions 20a, 20b are bundled together to have a circular contour and, in a middle portion 20c, the respective pipes are arranged adjacent to each other and are bent together.

Abstract: An intercooler of an internal combustion engine comprises tubes 10 having an internal path of the intake air and inner fins 11 arranged in the tubes 10 in such a manner as to divide the flow path in each tube 10 into a plurality of thin flow paths 100 to promote the heat exchange between the intake air and the cooling fluid, wherein the inner fins 11 are straight fins with the walls 110 extending linearly in the direction of the intake air flow to divide the flow path into the thin flow paths 100 and the supercharged air flow rate is not less than 1200 kg/hr. The tubes 10 are formed of copper or a copper alloy having a plate thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 mm. Assuming that the interval between adjacent tubes 10 in the stacking direction is a tube pitch Tp and the height of the tubes 10 in the stacking direction is a tube height Th, the relation between the tube pitch Tp and the tube height Th is defined.

Abstract: A heat exchanger according to the present invention has a plurality of tubes, header tanks and a support. Fluid flows through the plurality of tubes. The header tanks have a core plate and a tank body, and are disposed at longitudinal end portions of the plurality of tubes in such a manner to be communicated with internal spaces of the plurality of tubes. The core plate has approximately arc-shaped cross-section of which both side fringes are fixed onto the tank body and of which a middle portion fixes the longitudinal end portions of the plurality of tubes therein and bulges with respect to the both side fringes toward the plurality of tubes. The tank body and the core plate form an internal space of each of the header tanks. The support retains an interval between the both side fringes.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a foil brazing member is disclosed and comprises the steps of ejecting molten metal of a brazing metal alloy onto a rotating metal cooling roll from at least an opening of a nozzle, cooling and solidifying the molten metal by the cooling roll and forcibly separating the cooled and solidified molten metal from the cooling roll into a thin band-shaped foil brazing member. The method further comprises the step of forming a plurality of empty portions on the molten metal being cooled and solidified, between the ejection step and the forcible separation step.