Abstract: A combined heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger accommodated in a first tank of the first heat exchanger, and a third heat exchange disposed above or beneath the first heat exchanger. First refrigerant flowing in the first tank exchanges heat with second refrigerant flowing in the second heat exchanger, and the second refrigerant that has exchanged heat flows into a third tank of the third heat exchanger. The second heat exchanger includes a refrigerant flow-in port and a refrigerant flow-out port. The refrigerant flow-in/flow-out ports are disposed at positions opposed to each other on the first tank. The refrigerant flow-out port is connected with the third tank. According to the combined heat exchanger, the refrigerant flow-in/flow-out ports aren't protruded laterally outward from the second heat exchanger, and thereby layout flexibility of the refrigerant flow-in/flow-out ports can be improved.

Abstract: An integrated cooling system comprises a first cooling circuit including a first heat exchanger that cools a first cooling medium by a core portion arranged between an inlet tank and an outlet tank; a second cooling circuit including a second heat exchanger installed in the outlet tank to cool a second cooling medium by the first cooling medium, a pressure of the second cooling medium of the second heat exchanger being higher than that of the first cooling medium, in which at a power position that can secure in the first cooling circuit a minimum necessary amount of the first cooling medium for functioning the first cooling circuit, there is provided a fragile portion that is broken when applied with a pressure equal to or larger than a predetermined level thereby to permit communication between the interior and the outside of the outlet tank.

Abstract: A water-cooled condenser that exchanges heat between refrigerant of an air conditioner for a vehicle and coolant, and then send the refrigerant out to a air-cooled condenser through a refrigerant outlet port. The refrigerant outlet port is connected with the air-cooled condenser at a position that doesn't overlap a bumper reinforcement arranged in front of the air-cooled condenser at a front section of the vehicle when viewed along an airflow direction toward the air-cooled condenser. In the water-cooled condenser, the refrigerant that flows into the air-cooled condenser through the refrigerant outlet port flows much at a position that doesn't overlap the bumper reinforcement, so that superior heat radiation performance can be brought by a sufficient cooling airflow volume. Therefore, total heat radiation performance achieved by the air-cooled condenser and the water-cooled condenser can be improved.

Abstract: An exhaust gas thermal energy recovery system of a hybrid electric vehicle includes a second catalytic converter 6, a cooling device 10, a resonance tube 8, control valves V1 and V2 and an electric generating device 9. After an engine 1 is stopped, the control valves V1 and V2 form a loop path 20, and the cooling device 10 cools down an exhaust gas downstream side of the second catalytic converter 6 so as to generate a temperature gradient.

Abstract: An engine rapid warm-up system includes cooling water circulating through an engine 1, a radiator 2 introducing the cooling water to be cooled, a heat accumulator 3 storing the cooling water heated by the engine 1, and a pipe 6 and a water pump 7 that circulate the cooling water through the engine 1, the radiator 2 and the heat accumulator 3. In the system, high temperature cooling water that is stored in the heat accumulator 3 is controlled to be sent to and warm up the engine 1 at engine start, heat of exhaust gas is controlled to recover so that the cooling water obtained after heat recovery is circulated through and warms up the engine 1.

Abstract: An oil cooler is contained in a radiator tank. It includes a connecting pipe having an enlarged diameter portion, a heat exchange part including elements and a communicating passage fluidically communicating the elements, and a pipe connector. The pipe connector has a first retaining portion seated on one side of a wall portion of the radiator tank to contain and fix at least a part of the enlarged diameter portion of the connecting pipe by caulking, and a second retaining portion inserted through a through-hole of the wall portion and an one end portion of the communicating passage to fix the heat exchanger part and the wall portion at the other side of the wall portion by caulking.

Abstract: An air cooled oil cooler has an upper plate, a lower plate and a plurality of tubes and outer fins disposed therebetween. Each tube contains an inner offset fin, and the outer fins formed in a corrugated shape and each having one return louver on an intermediate portion between a top portion and a bottom portion of the outer fin. The outer fins is disposed between the tubes so that the tubes and the outer fins are arranged alternatively and stacked in a pile between the upper and lower plates. The tubes are formed to be flat tubes having a height-width ratio of the tube to be 4.8-7.4%.

Abstract: A housingless-type oil cooler includes cooling elements having first and second plates coupled with together, an oil return tube vertically arranged through a core portion, and a heat-transfer suppressing means. The cooling elements are piled up in a vertical direction of the core portion to alternately form cooling water chambers and oil chambers so that the adjacent cooling water chambers are fluidically connected through a cooling water passage and the adjacent oil chambers are fluidically connected through an oil passage. The oil return tube discharges oil introduced from one side of the core portion toward its other side through the oil chambers and the oil passages. The heat-transfer suppressing means is arranged between the oil chambers and the oil return tube to suppress heat transfer between the oil flowing in the oil chambers and the oil flowing in the oil return tube.

Abstract: An oil cooler is contained in a radiator tank. It includes a connecting pipe having an enlarged diameter portion, a heat exchange part including elements and a communicating passage fluidically communicating the elements, and a pipe connector. The pipe connector has a first retaining portion seated on one side of a wall portion of the radiator tank to contain and fix at least a part of the enlarged diameter portion of the connecting pipe by caulking, and a second retaining portion inserted through a through-hole of the wall portion and an one end portion of the communicating passage to fix the heat exchanger part and the wall portion at the other side of the wall portion by caulking.

Abstract: An oil cooler includes a heat exchanger having a plurality of element units stacked in a state communicating with each other, pipe connectors coupled to the heat exchanger in a state communicating with spaces formed respectively at both end portions in the longitudinal direction of the heat exchanger, and a pair of connecting pipes communicating with the spaces from connecting pipe attaching holes formed on the tank via cylindrical portions of the pipe connectors. The cylindrical portions are fixed respectively to rings provided on the outside of the tank at the connecting pipe attaching holes, and joint portions thereof are formed to be exposed to the outside of the tank.

Abstract: An air cooled oil cooler has an upper plate, a lower plate and a plurality of tubes and outer fins disposed therebetween. Each tube contains an inner offset fin, and the outer fins formed in a corrugated shape and each having one return louver on an intermediate portion between a top portion and a bottom portion of the outer fin. The outer fins is disposed between the tubes so that the tubes and the outer fins are arranged alternatively and stacked in a pile between the upper and lower plates. The tubes are formed to be flat tubes having a height-width ratio of the tube to be 4.8-7.4%.