Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: A heat pump includes a magnet assembly which creates a magnetic field, and a regenerator housing which includes a body defining a plurality of chambers, each of the plurality of chambers extending along a transverse direction orthogonal to the vertical direction. The heat pump further includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages including a magnetocaloric material disposed within one of the plurality of chambers and extending along the transverse direction between a first end and a second end.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bent pipe for a fluid to flow therein, which comprises: a plurality of bent portions; a plurality of connecting pipe sections, each connecting two adjacent bent portions; and a retention member, which is successively fixed at different locations along the length thereof to the bent portions on the same side of the bent pipe. In addition, the present invention further provides a semiconductor refrigerator having the bent pipe. Since the bent pipe and the semiconductor refrigerator of the present invention have a retention member, at least some of the pipe sections of the bent pipe can be kept in the bent shape such that the bending angle of the bent pipe is kept constant and thus the refrigerant in the semiconductor refrigerator can flow reliably in the bent pipe and can be effectively evaporated or condensed.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an energy efficient thermal protection assembly. The thermal protection assembly can comprise three or more thermoelectric unit layers capable of active use of the Peltier effect; and at least one capacitance spacer block suitable for storing heat and providing a delayed thermal reaction time of the assembly. The capacitance spacer block is thermally connected between the thermoelectric unit layers. The present disclosure further relates to a thermoelectric transport and storage devices for transporting or storing temperature sensitive goods, for example, vaccines, chemicals, biologicals, and other temperature sensitive goods. The transport or storage device can be configured and provide on-board energy storage for sustaining, for multiple days, at a constant-temperature, with an acceptable temperature variation band.

Abstract: A radiative cooler is provided having a thermally insulated vacuum chamber housing that is configured to support a vacuum level of at least 10-5 Torr, an infared-transparent window that is sealably disposed on top of the thermally insulated vacuum chamber and is transparet in the range of 8-13 ?m, a selective emitter disposed inside the chamber, a mirror cone on the infared-transparent window, a selective emitter inside the chamber and is configured to passively dissipate heat from the earth into outer space through the infared-transparent window and is thermally decoupled from ambient air and solar irradiation but coupled to outer space, a heat exchanger with inlet and outlet pipes disposed below the selective emitter to cool water flowing through the pipe, a sun shade disposed vertically outside the chamber to minimize direct solar irradiation, and a mirror cone to minimize downward atmospheric radiation.

Abstract: A refrigeration and heating system (2) comprises a refrigeration circuit (4) which comprises in the direction of flow of a circulating refrigerant: at least one compressor (6a, 6b, 6c); a refrigeration circuit side (8a) of a coupling heat exchanger (8); at least one gas cooler (10); at least one gas cooler bypass line (18) and at least one gas cooler bypass valve assembly (25) allowing to bypass the at least one gas cooler (10); at least one expansion device (12, 14) and at least one evaporator (16). The refrigeration and heating system (2) further comprises a heating circuit (20) which comprises in the direction of flow of a circulating heating fluid: a heating circuit side (8b) of the coupling heat exchanger (8) and at least one heating device (22).

Abstract: A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes: a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, and an evaporator; a first detector provided to the compressor, and configured to detect a temperature of the compressor; a second detector provided between the compressor and the expansion device in the refrigerant circuit, and configured to detect one of a temperature of refrigerant and a pressure of the refrigerant; and a controller configured to control at least one of frequency of the compressor and an opening degree of the expansion device based on the temperature detected by the first detector and one of the temperature and the pressure detected by the second detector so as to maintain a concentration of a refrigerating machine oil dissolved in the refrigerant in the compressor and an oil level of the refrigerating machine oil in the compressor within respective predetermined ranges.

Abstract: A water-guiding component assembly for a household cooling appliance contains a plurality of connection interfaces connecting to units not forming part of the component assembly and/or to components forming part of the component assembly. The component assembly contains an outer housing, in which the connection interfaces are comprised and housed.

Abstract: In an air conditioning device (10) to which an outdoor unit (20) and indoor units (40) are connected, when a flow rate of a gaseous refrigerant in a gas main pipe (72a) is lower than a lower limit flow rate in main pipe, an amount of refrigerating machine oil accumulated in the gas main pipe (72a) is calculated. When gas branch pipes (72b) include a gas branch pipe (72b) having a flow rate lower than a lower limit flow rate in branch pipe even though the flow rate of the gaseous refrigerant in the gas main pipe (72a) is higher than the lower limit flow rate in main pipe, an amount of the machine oil accumulated in the gas branch pipe (72b) is calculated. When the amounts are integrated and the integrated value exceeds a set amount, oil collecting operation is performed.

Abstract: A temperature control method is performed by a temperature control apparatus including a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat using a phase change of a refrigerant, a rotary pump configured to receive the refrigerant from the heat exchanger and fuse the refrigerant with oil contained inside the rotary pump, and an oil refrigerant separator configured to receive the refrigerant fused with the oil from the rotary pump and separate the refrigerant from the oil. The temperature control method includes the steps of: circulating the refrigerant separated from the oil back to the heat exchanger; and adjusting at least one of a rotation speed of a rotor of the rotary pump, a position of a valve arranged at a connecting portion of the rotary pump and the heat exchanger, and a position of an airflow adjustment valve arranged at a connecting portion of the oil refrigerant separator and the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A refrigerant evaporator includes: a first heat exchange part in which refrigerant flows to exchange heat with fluid to be cooled; a second heat exchange part arranged to oppose the first heat exchange part; a first tank arranged below the first heat exchange part to distribute the refrigerant to the first heat exchange part; a second tank arranged below the second heat exchange part to collect the refrigerant flowing through the second heat exchange part; and a third tank joined to the first tank and the second tank by brazing. A projection part is formed at one of joint portions between the first tank and the third tank. An insertion part is formed at the other of the joint portions between the first tank and the third tank, and the projection part is inserted in the insertion part.

Abstract: An ice maker assembly includes an ice making apparatus for an appliance with an ice making tray having a water basin formed by a metallic ice forming plate and at least one perimeter sidewall extending upwardly from a top surface of the ice forming plate. The ice making tray also has a grid with at least one dividing wall. The at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall and the top surface of the ice forming plate form at least one ice compartment having an upper surface and a lower surface. An ice body is formed in the at least one ice compartment. Moreover, the at least one perimeter sidewall and the at least one dividing wall form a draft angle with the top surface of the ice forming plate, of about 17 degrees to about 25 degrees.

Abstract: [Task] To provide an automatic ice maker with improved corrosion resistance to prevent ice-making water and ice from being contaminated by a corrosion product such as rust, thereby enhancing the reliability of food sanitation. [Means for solution] The automatic ice maker produces ice having a required shape by supplying ice-making water in circulation to an ice compartment 10 that is cooled by a cooling pipe 48. The automatic ice maker has an electroless nickel-phosphorus plated coating 23 formed in a thickness of 15 ?m or more on an outermost layer of the ice compartment 10, which coating 23 contains a 10% to 15% phosphorus component.

Abstract: The valve device (1) comprises a bearing structure (2), stationary in operation, wherein there is defined a passage (3) intended to be coupled with an ice cube dispensing conduit in a refrigerator; an obturator (12) mounted rotatable in the bearing structure (2), between a closed position and an opened position, wherein it substantially shuts and, respectively, opens the passage (3), and an electrically-controlled motor means (W; 22, 28, 30), connected with the bearing structure (2) and coupled with the obturator (12) and adapted to cause a rotation of the obturator (12) between the closed position and the opened position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device 100, in particular a freezer, comprising a cooling circuit 200 having a compressor 210, at least one evaporator 220, and a condenser; a space for cooling goods 300 that can be closed at its upper surface; and a coolant reservoir 400 at least partially surrounding an upper region of the space for cooling goods 300, wherein the at least one evaporator 220 is disposed in the coolant reservoir 400, and wherein the at least one evaporator 220 at least partially surrounds the upper region of the space for cooling goods 300.

Abstract: A refrigerator door and a manufacturing method of the same are disclosed. The refrigerator door includes a front panel that includes a first through hole and an input unit, a door liner, an upper cap decoration unit configured to seal an upper side of a first space defined between the front panel and the door liner, a frame attached to an inside of the front panel and defining a second space, a display assembly provided between the frame and the front panel and configured to emit light through the first through hole, and a touch sensor assembly provided between the frame and the front panel, the touch sensor assembly being fixed to a rear of the front panel at a position that corresponds to a location of the input unit. The upper cap decoration unit includes a communication hole for communicating with the second space and includes a cap cover.

Abstract: A cooler access control system locks a cooler when occurrence of an event is detected that requires limiting access to the inside of the cooler. Examples of such events include the loss of power to the cooler for a predetermined period of time, the opening of the cooler door for longer than an allowed time, the loss of functionality of a temperature probe and others. In an embodiment, a service mode is supported wherein the door is left unlocked despite the occurrence of such an event, to allow a stocker or other personnel to leave the cooler door open while stocking the cooler with product.

Abstract: A tray-shaped food-accommodating container for a domestic refrigeration appliance includes a lateral wall with a first planar wall and at least a second planar wall disposed at an angle to each other. The first and second planar walls open out at a curved transition of the lateral wall interconnecting the first and second planar walls. A decorative film, which is provided in areas of the lateral wall, is formed in one piece across the transition and areas of the first and second planar walls. A lower edge of the decorative film, which faces away from an upper edge of the container, is disposed along a stepless surface-area of the transition, along a stepless surface-area of the first planar wall and along a stepless surface-area of the second planar wall. A domestic refrigeration appliance having the container is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the vacuum-tight leading of an electric line through a high barrier film. The apparatus comprises a hollow pipe 1 having a collar 2 projecting therefrom; a high barrier film 3 having a passage hole 4 through which the hollow pipe 1 runs; and a pressing element 5 that is arranged at the side of the high barrier film 3 that is remote from the collar 2, and that urges the high barrier film 3 toward the collar 2, with the high barrier film 3 being arranged between the collar 2 of the hollow pipe 1 and the pressing element 5. The apparatus is furthermore characterized in that an electric line runs in the hollow pipe 1 that leads from the one side of the high barrier film 3 to the other side and in that a sealant is present in the hollow pipe 1 for the vacuum-tight closing of the hollow pipe 1.

Abstract: An under counter insulated enclosure that is located partially under the corner portion of a standard kitchen counter. A Peltier cooling or heating assembly can cool or heat the enclosure. Sliding panels, that are actuated by motorized rack and pinion assemblies located near the floor of the enclosure allow the food storage racks sitting on top of the panels to slide and swivel so that the contents of both food racks are accessible to the user.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body, a dispenser configured to supply water to the outside of the main body, a water supply flow path connecting the dispenser to a water source; and a valve assembly disposed on the water supply flow path, wherein the valve assembly comprises an elastic member having an outlet whose diameter is reduced by an elastic force, when water is no longer supplied to the valve assembly, so that water remaining in the inside of the water supply flow path is kept by the surface tension of the water.

Abstract: A household cooling appliance has a dispenser unit for dispensing a liquid and/or a free flow refrigerated good. The dispenser unit has an insert with side walls and a bottom wall bounding a niche, into which a receptacle for receiving the liquid and/or the free flow refrigerated good, is inserted. The dispenser unit has a drip tray for containing liquid that is brought into the niche. The drip tray has a drip well. A cover covers the side walls towards the niche, and is arranged within the niche. On a front side of the cover facing the niche is disposed a drain element, which is configured to be elevated towards the niche and for draining a liquid running into the drip tray. The drain element is arranged in a height direction above the drip tray or in the bottom wall a slot is formed for draining liquid from the insert.

Abstract: A household cooling appliance includes a dispensing unit for dispensing a liquid and/or free flow refrigerated goods. The dispensing unit includes an insert having walls bounding a recess in which a receiving container can be inserted for receiving the liquid and/or free flow refrigerated goods to be dispensed. A receptacle for an electronic module is formed as a slot having a slot opening bounded by bounding walls. At least one depth stop for the electronic module is formed on at least one of the bounding walls and delimits an installation depth for the electronic module in the direction of a slot axis. A household cooling appliance system is also provided.

Abstract: A refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a power input part through which power is input from a UPS device connected to a commercial power source and an auxiliary power source; a voltage sensor configured to sense a voltage of the power input through the power input part; and a control part configured to analyze a voltage signal sensed by the voltage sensor and to determine whether the input power is commercial power or auxiliary power.

Abstract: A household cooling appliance has a dispenser unit for dispensing a free flow refrigerated good. The dispenser unit has an insert, which by side walls and a bottom wall bounds a niche, in which a receptacle for receiving the free flow refrigerated good is insertable. A drip tray is provided, which is separate from the insert, for collecting liquid and can be brought into the niche. The drip tray has a drip well and a grip element which extends within the drip well and is accessible from the top for gripping. The drip tray on a bottom wall has a liquid distribution element, which elevated from the top side protrudes upwards and is configured to be narrowing. The drip tray on the bottom wall has a coupling element which for positioning of the drip tray is formed in the insert for coupling with a counter coupling element.

Abstract: A cooling and heating cup holder may include an inner body accommodating a drink container, a heat exchanger including an inlet formed therein while discharging air introduced by the inlet into the inner body through a blower hole, heat exchanging pins provided in the heat exchanger, a thermoelectric element having a first side entirely adhered to a rear surface of the heat exchanger, a heat radiator coupled to a second side of the thermoelectric element, an outer body forming a circulating space between the inner body and the outer body, and a blower fan transferring air to the inlet of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A method for recovering a helium product fraction (6) from a nitrogen- and helium-containing feed fraction (3) is described, wherein the nitrogen- and helium-containing feed fraction (3) is partially condensed (E1), separated into a first helium-enriched fraction (5) and a first nitrogen-enriched fraction (8) and the former is cleaned again in an adsorptive manner. According to the invention, the separation is carried out in a separation column (T), which is supplied with the first nitrogen-enriched fraction (8) as return flow and with a sub-flow of the second nitrogen-enriched fraction as stripping gas (12), wherein the stripping gas quantity (12) is set such that a third nitrogen-enriched fraction (20), which contains at least 30% of the nitrogen contained in the first nitrogen-enriched fraction (8), can be recovered in the separation column (T).

Abstract: A system and method for integrated heavy hydrocarbon removal in a liquefaction system having a lean natural gas source. An economizer located between a main cryogenic heat exchanger and a reflux drum is provided to cool an overhead vapor stream against a partially condensed stream. In addition, pressure of the natural gas feed stream is maintained into a scrub column. A pressure drop is provided by a valve located between the economizer and the reflux drum on a partially condensed stream withdrawn from the cold end of the warm section of the main cryogenic heat exchanger.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to obtain a compressed nitrogen product by low-temperature fractionation of air in a distillation column system. The system has a high-pressure column, a low-pressure column, a main condenser, and a low-pressure column top condenser. Bottoms liquid from the low-pressure column is evaporated in the top condenser and the gas formed is decompressed to perform work that drives a cold compressor. A gaseous first compressed nitrogen product stream from the high-pressure column is warmed in the main heat exchanger. A further gaseous nitrogen stream from the low-pressure column is compressed in the cold compressor and warmed as a second compressed nitrogen product stream in the main heat exchanger. The cold compressor overcomes a pressure differential which is at least equal to two thirds of the pressure differential between the top of the high-pressure column and the top of the low-pressure column.

Abstract: A method for the separation of liquid CO2 from a 2 phase feed stream, the process comprising the steps of: cooling the feed stream to a cryogenic temperature; expanding the cooled stream so as to further lower the temperature of the feed through expansion; mechanically separating the expanded stream, using a mechanical separator, into a gas phase and a liquid CO2 phase, and; venting the gas phase and outflowing the liquid CO2.

Abstract: The present invention is related to an UV LED curing apparatus, and more particularly, to an UV LED curing apparatus with improved housing and switch controller. The light reflective inner casing is preferably provided as an effective UV light reflector and as a supporting substrate of the UV LED light source while being capable of transmitting heat from the UV LED light source away for further heat dissipation to the ambient by the outer casing. The outer casing is detachably attached to the inner casing and allows a greater user interaction for decorative and entertainment purposes while also being a protective and heat dissipation means.

Abstract: A method for lyophilizing a substance is provided which may include placing at least one vial containing the substance in a lyophilization chamber, the at least one vial having an opening in which a stopper is inserted in a closed state not allowing gas exchange between the interior and exterior of the vial; providing mechanical means external to the stopper and arranged at the opening for restricting an upward movement of the stopper; lowering the temperature within the lyophilization chamber to a predefined value below the freezing temperature of the substance and reducing the pressure within the lyophilization chamber to a predefined pressure at a predefined temperature, the predefined pressure being chosen such that the force exerted by it on the stopper lifts the stopper from the closed state to an exchange state in which the stopper is only partly inserted in the opening of the vial allowing gas exchange between the interior and exterior of the vial, wherein the lowering of the temperature within the ly

Abstract: An exemplary furnace system for melting stock metal includes a main hearth and a side well subsystem, which includes a melting well disposed downstream of the main hearth for receiving flow from the main hearth, an input flow inducer disposed upstream of the melting well and downstream of the main hearth, and an output flow inducer disposed downstream of the melting well and upstream of the main hearth. The input flow inducer drives molten metal into the melting well, thereby forming a differential metal head in the melting well. The output flow inducer evacuates molten metal from an output conduit, thereby reducing counter-pressure at an output port of the melting well communicating with the output conduit. This allows atmospheric pressure to add to the differential metal head in the melting well, resulting in an increase in productivity of the side well subsystem and of the furnace system as a whole.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system may include a heat exchanger comprising at least one heat exchanger tube. The heat exchanger tube may include multiple passes: a first pass, a second pass having an elliptical portion with dimples disposed in the elliptical portion, and a third pass having an elliptical portion with dimples disposed in the elliptical portion. The first pass and the second pass may be connected in fluid communication by a first bend, and the second pass and the third pass may be connected in fluid communication by a second bend. The heat exchanger tube may be configured to promote heat transfer while also controlling a pressure drop across the heat exchanger tube.

Abstract: An energy transfer system that includes a tank comprising an outer wall having a circumference. A first fluid pathway surrounds a portion of the circumference of the tank. A second fluid pathway seals the portion of the circumference of the tank and the first fluid pathway from the environment.

Abstract: Disclosed is a shell and tube heat exchanger that includes, inter alia, an elongated cylindrical shell that defines a longitudinal axis for the heat exchanger and an internal chamber. The shell has at least one feed gas inlet and feed gas outlet formed in an outer wall for allowing a feed gas to enter and exit the internal chamber. At least one tube sheet is associated with an end of the elongated shell and a plurality of circular baffles are longitudinally spaced apart within the internal chamber of the shell for redirecting feed gas flow within the internal chamber. The heat exchanger also includes a tube bundle which has a plurality of tubes for allowing effluent gas to traverse from an inlet plenum through the internal chamber of the shell to an outlet plenum. Additionally, a shroud distributor is arranged and configured to direct feed gas flow from the feed gas inlet to the internal chamber proximate the at least one tube sheet.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a duct, a stacked core, and a coupling plate. The duct includes a first plate that is disposed to face at least one of end faces of the stacked core in a core width direction, and a second plate that is disposed to face at least one of the end faces of the stacked core in a tube stacking direction. The second plate includes a second-plate end plate portion disposed to face the end face of the stacked core in the core width direction and brazed to a wall surface of the first plate, a second-plate center plate portion that is disposed to face the end face of the stacked core in the tube stacking direction, and a flange portion that extends in the tube stacking direction and is brazed to a bottom wall surface of a groove portion of the coupling plate.

Abstract: This heat exchanger can include parallel plates which define liquid-refrigerant passages following a longitudinal direction, and—fins extending in each passage in a lateral direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, each fin having orifices for the flow of the liquid refrigerant. At least one lower portion of at least one fin defines, with the plate secured to this lower portion, a distribution channel for channeling the liquid refrigerant in the lateral direction. The orifices in said at least one fin are formed by overflow openings in the upper portion. The liquid refrigerant flows through the overflow openings when the or each distribution channel is full of liquid refrigerant.

Abstract: A heat transfer system includes a main circuit forming a fluid loop, the main circuit being devoid of mechanical or capillary pumping means, at least one evaporator unit arranged in bypass to the main circuit, and at least one cooling heat exchanger that includes a portion of the loop main circuit and a heat exchanger coupled to a heat sink, for dissipating thermal energy. The evaporator unit includes an inlet pipe collecting liquid fluid from the main loop, an evaporator including a porous member with capillary pumping coupled to a heat source to be cooled, and an outlet pipe having an ejection nozzle with injects the fluid in primarily vapor phase into the main circuit at least in the loop direction of flow.

Abstract: A new heat exchange tube fin design in which a plurality of arrowhead shapes are pressed into or embossed onto each fin, the arrowhead shape defined by two intersecting wedge sections. The pressed arrowhead shapes are grouped into nested pairs, and one of the arrowheads in a pair is pressed as a positive relative to the fin plane and the other of the pair is pressed as a negative relative to the fin plane. The arrowhead pairs are placed in rows parallel to the air flow direction and arrowhead pairs in one row are preferably staggered relative to the arrowhead pairs in the adjacent row along the fin in the air flow direction.

Abstract: To provide a condenser including a housing formed in a hollow shape and provided with a steam inlet and a condensate outlet, inlet water chambers and outlet water chambers provided at respective ends of the housing, a large number of heat-transfer tubes that connect the inlet water chambers and the outlet water chambers to each other inside the housing, in which cooling water flows, and intake pipes and drainpipes respectively coupled to the inlet water chambers and outlet water chambers via expansion joints.

Abstract: A tank has a tank body defining a passage therein, a plate to which tubes are attached, and an intermediate plate. The tank body has a space defining part and a tank junction part attached to the intermediate plate. A longitudinal direction and a stacking direction of the tubes are perpendicular to a width direction. The space defining part has two end parts facing each other in the width direction and connecting to two of the tank junction part respectively. The tank body has a junction end surface that has an arc shape protruding toward the passage. The intermediate plate has a part corresponding to the junction end surface and being provided with a receiving surface that has an arc shape fitting the arc shape of the junction end surface. The receiving surface is attached to the junction end surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides, with use of a particular material, (i) a graphite laminate that has high thermal conductivity and that is unlikely to contain a void, (ii) a graphite laminate that is good in thermal conductivity and peel strength, (iii) methods for producing such graphite laminates, (iv) heat transport structures including such graphite laminates, (v) a rod-shaped heat transporter whose operating temperature is not limited and which can be used stably, and (vi) an electronic device including a rod-shaped heat transporter.