Publication number: 20100089559
Abstract: A mini-channel heat exchanger or a micro-channel heat exchanger includes an insert (140, 240, 340, 440, 540, 640, 4, 940, 1040) having a volume. The insert is within a gap between a plurality of tubes (130, 230, 330, 430, 530, 630, 1, 930, 1030) of the mini-channel heat exchanger or the micro-channel heat exchanger and a manifold inner wall of a manifold (120, 220, 320, 420, 520, 620, 2, 920, 1020).
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 13, 2006
Publication date:
April 15, 2010
Applicant:
CARRIER CORPORATION
Inventors:
Mikhail B. Gorbounov, Joseph J. Sangiovanni, Yirong Jiang, Jifeng Zhang, Thomas D. Radcliff, Jules R. Munoz, Parmesh Verma, Young K. Park, Henry Beamer, Bruce Dittly, Michael D. Ford, Thomas McGreevy, David E. Samuelson, Douglas C. Wintersteen