Abstract: An imaging device includes an imaging main body; a fan accommodation portion provided in an upper portion of the imaging main body; and a cooling fan disposed in the fan accommodation portion, wherein the fan accommodation portion includes an upper surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a front surface that cover the cooling fan, and an intake port and an exhaust port for the cooling fan to perform intake and exhaust are provided on a surface of the fan accommodation portion different from the upper surface.

Abstract: A heat sink device including: a cover module having a liquid inlet; a central flow channel for distributing coolant fluid introduced into the liquid inlet of the cover module; a plurality of inner fins; a plurality of inner radial flow channels; wherein coolant fluid from the central flow channel flows into the inner radial flow channels; a ring segment disposed around an outer perimeter of the plurality of inner fins, wherein the ring segment is configured to at least one of, mix and distribute coolant fluid received from the inner radial flow channels; a plurality of outer fins; a plurality of outer radial flow channels; wherein coolant fluid from the ring segment flows into the outer radial flow channels; and an outer flow channel, wherein coolant fluid flowing out of the radial flow channels outlet drains into the outer flow channel.

Abstract: The heat exchanger is generally ring-shaped and includes a plurality of heat exchange modules (2), which are mutually independent, being distributed about the axis (A1) of the ring. The modules (2) are assembled with one another, being successively spaced apart in pairs, a space (E1) being created between two adjacent modules (2). At least one of the spaces (E1) receives at least one conductive heat-transfer element (7) extending between respective walls of at least two adjacent the modules (2) which are oriented facing one another.

Abstract: A device including a microchannel heat sink having a first layer circle A and circle B fins and a second layer circle A and circle B fins, wherein circle A fins includes a plurality of outer ring fins and circle B fins includes a plurality of inner ring fins; a cover assembly, in which the cover assembly includes adaptors, a liquid channel, a vapor channel, and a TRV chamber; a thermal regulation valve (TRV), wherein the thermal regulation valve (TRV) is configured to enable dynamic responses for temperature control in the microchannel heat sink; and a temperature sensing mechanism, in which the temperature sensing mechanism is configured to be operable for detecting temperature variations and converting the temperature variations to pressure variations.

Abstract: A heat exchanger, e.g., an indirect charge air cooler for an internal combustion engine, is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of tubes that provide a first channel system for a first fluid, and a second channel system for a second fluid disposed between the plurality of tubes that is fluidically separated from the first channel system. Two opposite side parts for fluidically bounding the second channel system are provided, between which the plurality of tubes are arranged. At least one frame part is soldered together with a respective outer edge of the two side parts. The outer edge of a side part includes a tab bent over S-shaped as edge reinforcement with a first tab section solder-plated on an outside and a second tab section solder-plated on an inside. The frame part has an S-shaped cross section with a first receptacle that receives the first tab section.

Abstract: A mobile pump unit including a mobile trailer having mounted thereon one or more pumps, an internal combustion engine(s) to power the one or more pumps, and a heat exchanger assembly for cooling a fluid for the engine, transmission, hydraulic driven components, or pressure pump. The heat exchanger assembly includes a heat exchanger with an air inlet. The air inlet faces the engine and is for receiving air. In addition to the air inlet, the heat exchanger has a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid; a heat exchange surface for transferring heat from the fluid to the air; an air outlet for discharging the air; and a fluid outlet for delivering the fluid to the engine. The heat exchanger assembly also includes an air circulation device for moving the air through the heat exchanger, and an air intake duct that directs the air into the air inlet of the heat exchanger. The air intake duct is configured to resist heated air produced by the engine from entering the air inlet.

Abstract: In an air conditioner, a drain extraction unit and a refrigerant pipe connecting unit may be disposed in a blocking region in which a discharge port is not provided so that a size of the discharge port may be secured and the discharge port may be uniformly disposed, thereby generating uniform airflow in a room. In a lower housing formed in a circular shape, some of components inside an indoor unit of the air conditioner may be disposed in a protrusion portion that protrudes from the circular housing, thereby facilitating the installation of the air conditioner. A condensate water collecting space disposed outside the housing may be provided in a drain tray, thereby efficiently preventing a leakage due to condensate water generated outside the housing. The housing, the drain tray, and the cover member of the air conditioner may be coupled by a coupling member coupled outside.

Abstract: A cooking appliance includes: a cooking cavity with a bottom wall and a rear wall. A convection fan is disposed adjacent to the rear wall of the cooking cavity. A gas burner is located in a subjacent space beneath the bottom wall and adjacent to the rear wall of the cooking cavity. A heat duct provides communication through the bottom wall and includes an inlet positioned directly above and adjacent to the gas burner through which combustion gases from the gas burner can enter the heat duct. An annular portion of the heat duct defines a pass-through opening in which the convection fan is disposed. Flames from the gas burner extend upwardly toward or through the inlet of the heat duct and are substantially isolated from turbulent air flow generated by the convection fan.

Abstract: Provided is an air-conditioning system that air-conditions a house having an upper floor and a lower floor positioned at a lower position than the upper floor. The air-conditioning system includes an air-conditioning apparatus that conditions air in an air-conditioning room provided at the upper floor or at a higher position than the upper floor, a plurality of conveyance fans that conveys the air in the air-conditioning room to a plurality of upper rooms positioned at the higher floor independent of the air condition room, and is provided to correspond to the plurality of upper rooms, coupling fans that couple the upper rooms and lower rooms positioned at lower positions of the upper rooms to blow air from the upper rooms to the lower rooms, and a system controller that controls the air-conditioning apparatus, the conveyance fans, and the coupling fans.

Abstract: A vehicle interior panel includes a diffuser spanning an air discharge opening. The diffuser has a spiral slot formed therethrough such that changing an axial distance between opposite ends of the slot changes an air flow capacity of the diffuser. The diffuser has an elegant and simplified design and can be made as one piece from a sheet material. Air is discharged from the diffuser radially and substantially equally in all radial directions. The diffuser can also function to provide ambient light from a light source and/or to deliver an air freshening agent to the passenger cabin.

Abstract: A radiator includes an upper tank and a lower tank for storing cooling water, and a core for connecting the upper tank and the lower tank to each other. The core includes a plurality of cooling water pipes for flowing the cooling water between the upper tank and the lower tank, and a plurality of fins that extend between the plurality of cooling water pipes to promote heat dissipation from the cooling water pipes. The core further includes a flow surface through which air can flow, the flow surface including a recess.

Abstract: A nozzle includes a nozzle body defining a liquid circuit extending from a liquid inlet to a liquid outlet. The liquid circuit includes a plurality of spiral liquid passages spiraling radially inward relative to a spray axis. The spiral liquid passages all lie in a plane normal to the spray axis. A manifold assembly includes a plurality of such nozzles. A manifold ring is in fluid communication with the liquid inlet of each of the nozzles to deliver liquid to the nozzles. The nozzles are circumferentially spaced apart around the manifold ring.

Abstract: A heat exchanger plate for provides heat transfer between a first flow along a first flowpath and a second flow along a second flowpath. The heat exchanger plate comprised a body having: a first face and a second face opposite the first face; a leading edge along the second flowpath and a trailing edge along the second flowpath; a proximal edge having at least one inlet port along the first flowpath and at least one outlet port along the first flowpath; and at least one passageway along the first flowpath. Along a proximal portion, the first face and the second face converge at a first angle. Along a distal portion, the first face and the second face converge at a second angle less than the first angle.

Abstract: A fan frame includes a metal base and a frame body. The metal base has a center portion, a plurality of supporting portions with strip shapes and a plurality of wing portions. Each of the supporting portions has a head end, a middle part and a tail end. The head end connects to a peripheral part of the center portion. The wing portions extend outwardly at an angle from the middle parts of the supporting portions, respectively. The frame body has a frame wall. The wing portions are partially at least covered by the frame body. Another fan frame is also disclosed.

Abstract: A liquid cooling heat exchange apparatus has a water block set and a liquid pump module. The water block set has a heat transfer surface configured to exchange heat with a cooling liquid. The liquid pump module is securely mounted on the water block set and has a flow-directing containment area and pumps. The flow-directing containment area forms flow-directing containment recesses and the pumps correspond to the flow-directing containment recesses. Therefore, pumps are connected in series or parallel so that the pumps can juxtapose with each other, which lessens the entire thickness and allows the liquid cooling heat exchange apparatus to be utilized in a narrow space. Besides, with the connected pumps, an amount and a speed of the flow may be increased and dissipate more heat. Even if part of the pumps malfunctions, the remaining pump(s) can maintain a basic amount and speed of the flow.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a housing, a plurality of electrochemical devices disposed within the housing, and a heat exchanger disposed within the housing. The heat exchanger can be faced with an oxidant-containing gas outlet surface of at least one of the plurality of electrochemical devices. The electrochemical devices can include a stack of solid oxide fuel cells, a battery, or a solid oxide electrolyzer cell.

Abstract: A holding system (101, 102, 103) for holding at least one pipe, comprising a comb including a bar and parallel teeth perpendicular to the bar. A blocking device (30) consisting essentially of a pin, serves to prevent a pipe passing between two of the teeth from moving away from the bar. The holding system further comprises two supports (40A, 40B), positioned at the ends of the comb, and which hold the comb so as to allow rotation thereof around the axis of the bar. A method for mounting a heat exchanger (100) comprising such a holding system.

Abstract: A strong cooling direct air-cooled condenser radiating unit and an air-cooled island are provided, comprises a cooling wall, an air supply device and a flow guide device located in the cooling wall. The air supply device comprises a unit air supply channel, an air supply ring, and an air collecting cavity. The air supply ring is located at the lower part of the cooling wall and is an annular body with a cavity. An annular slit outlet is formed in the lower part of the air supply ring. The upper part of the air collecting cavity communicates with the air supply ring. A separating plate is provided in the unit air supply channel and divides the unit air supply channel into upper and lower air flues. The upper air flue communicates with the cavity of the air supply ring. The lower air flue communicates with the air collecting cavity.

Abstract: A heat exchanger system includes a heat exchanger coil, a base of a foam structure including a clamp with a first arm and a second arm, where the first arm and the second arm are configured to exert a clamping force against the heat exchanger coil, and a vertical member of the foam substructure coupled to the base and abutting a cover of the heat exchanger system, where the base and the vertical member are configured to block air flowing through the heat exchanger from flowing into a void between the heat exchanger coil and the cover.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a blower blowing air and an outdoor unit of air conditioner having the same. The blower includes a fan, a motor driving the fan, and a motor support member disposed on a flow path, through which air generated by a rotation of the fan flows, to support the motor. The motor support member includes a cross-sectional shape including a maximum width portion having a maximum width in a direction perpendicular to the airflow direction, an upstream portion having a width being increased from the upstream side to the downstream side, and a downstream portion having a width being reduced from the upstream side to the downstream side. A downstream end located downstream of the downstream portion has a width in a direction perpendicular to the airflow direction.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a cooling module assembly for a vehicle. In one example, the cooling module assembly includes a first set of fins configured to flow a first fluid through a first sinusoidal, continuous inner passage, and a second set of fins configured to flow a second fluid through a second sinusoidal, continuous inner passage. The second set of fins shares a common plane with the first set of fins and together forms a semi-circular structure.

Abstract: An outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus includes a body frame having, in a side face, an air inlet from which outside air is suctioned, the body frame including a hanger-receiving portion in an upper part, the hanger-receiving portion including a beam-like supporting part; an outdoor heat exchanger provided inside the body frame and extending along the air inlet; a hanging portion engaging with the outdoor heat exchanger; and a connecting element connecting the hanger-receiving portion and the hanging portion to each other. The outdoor heat exchanger is supported by the hanger-receiving portion through the hanging portion and the connecting element.

Abstract: An air purification device includes a movement portion configured to move the air purification device to a target region; and a purification portion configured to purify air in the target region to improve air quality of the target region.

Abstract: A heat exchanger coil and a heat exchanger having the same. The heat exchanger coil includes: a plurality of flat tubes, each flat tube having a length direction oriented along a vertical direction; and a plurality of fins, in which each fin is disposed between adjacent flat tubes and includes a plurality of fin units arranged along the length direction of the flat tube and sequentially connected into a corrugated shape, each fin unit has a windward end portion and a leeward end portion opposite to each other in a width direction of the flat tube, and at least one end portion of the windward end portion and the leeward end portion of each fin unit extends beyond the plurality of flat tubes along the width direction of the flat tube and is provided with a drain hole.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner includes: a housing including a bottom surface, a side surface, and an upper surface; an outdoor heat exchanger arranged along the side surface of the housing; a blowing fan arranged on the upper surface of the housing; a bell mouth arranged around the blowing fan; a fan guard provided to cover an upper portion of the blowing fan; and a height changing member provided between the fan guard and the bell mouth and configured to change a height of the fan guard with respect to the blowing fan.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat sink (1) for an electric machine, which heat sink has at least one cooling channel (7), which adjoins an interior (3) surrounded by the heat sink (1). The heat sink (1) is characterized in that the heat sink (1) is designed as a single-piece plate (5) bent into a closed ring, in the case of which plate two opposite abutting surfaces (19, 21) are connected to each other in a fluid-tight manner in the region of a joint (17), wherein a plurality of closed channels (7) extend in the plate (5), which channels extend at an angle to the circumferential direction of the ring in such a way that adjacent channels (7) lead into each other in the region of the joint (17) and thus form a continuous, spiral channel, which extends in a plurality of spiral turns from an axially front end (22) to an axially rear end (24) of the annular heat sink (1).

Abstract: A compressor assembly of a turbocharger can include a compressor housing that includes a compressor wheel space and a diffuser section that extends from the compressor wheel space to at least one volute; a dual-faced compressor wheel disposed at least in part in the compressor wheel space where the dual-faced compressor wheel includes a first compressor wheel face and a second compressor wheel face oriented back-to-back; and a diffuser section divider disposed at least in part in the diffuser section where the diffuser section divider includes a first side that defines in part a first diffuser that includes a first set of vanes associated with the first compressor wheel face and a second side that defines in part a second diffuser that includes a second set of vanes associated with the second compressor wheel face.

Abstract: A bracket system includes a first bracket configured to couple a heat exchanger coil to a base of a heat exchanger via engagement of a mounting surface of the base, where the first bracket has a recessed member and a fastening tab, and a second bracket configured to couple the heat exchanger coil to a shroud of the heat exchanger via engagement of a fastener, where the second bracket has a protruding member and a protruding ridge. The recessed member is configured to receive the protruding member such that the first bracket and the second bracket are coupled to one another in a first configuration of the bracket system, and where the fastening tab is configured to receive the protruding ridge such that the first bracket and the second bracket are coupled to one another in a second configuration of the bracket system.

Abstract: A fin array is disclosed for use in a centrifugal fan having a housing and a fan wheel, the fin array having: a first tube in a first plane perpendicular to an axis of the fan wheel; a second tube in a second plane parallel to the first plane; and a fin in a third plane parallel to the first place. The fin is sandwiched between the first tube and the second tube, all of which partially surround the axis of the fan wheel. The fin comprises a slotted fin apparatus for permitting condensate to move from a region between the fan wheel and the first tube to a region between the first tube and the housing. The slotted fin apparatus has a first cutout disposed between a first extension and a second extension along at least a port of the length of the fin.

Abstract: A dual fan apparatus for providing heated or cooled air which is compact fit within limited spaces. The dual fan apparatus includes two axial fans on opposing sides of a thermal exchange component which operate in coordination to move air in one direction at a time through the apparatus. The dual fan apparatus increases airflow and thermal transfer efficiency through the thermal exchange component.

Abstract: An apparatus having a wall configured to serve as at least part of a chamber for containing a charge fluid is provided. The wall includes a heat exchanger portion integrally formed with the wall. The heat exchanger portion includes an array of conduits passing therethrough and providing fluid communication with outside of the heat exchange portion. The heat exchange portion is configured to contribute strength to the wall to provide containment of the charge fluid.

Abstract: A heat dissipating module includes a bottom cover, a top cover, a fan body, and a heat dissipating structure. The top cover is disposed opposite the bottom cover, in which an air outlet is formed by the top cover and the bottom cover. The fan body is disposed between the top cover and the bottom cover, and the fan body provides an airflow toward the air outlet. The heat dissipating structure is disposed in front of the air outlet, in which the heat dissipating structure and the bottom cover are formed with a one-piece metal sheet. The heat dissipating structure is bent from the bottom cover toward the air outlet. The heat dissipating structure includes openings, such that the airflow passes through the openings from the air outlet and performs heat exchange with the heat dissipating structure.

Abstract: A cooling system includes a rear radiator that is mounted in a vehicle and circulates cooling water to release heat of the cooling water. A fan that generates cooling air to cool the rear radiator, and a shroud is provided between the fan and the rear radiator and guides the cooling air. The shroud has a double structure having an internal space; the internal space enables the cooling water to pass through the internal space when the cooling water circulates.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to a fan cover with a plurality of openings. For example, a device may include a fan cover to a fan device and a heat conduction device, a portion of the heat conduction device being coupled to an inside surface of the fan cover. The fan cover provides airflow for heat dissipation in a computing device and surrounds at least a portion of the fan device. The fan device has a first side associated with an axis about which an impeller of the fan device is capable of rotating and a second side associated with blade edges of the impeller of the fan device. The fan cover includes a flat portion to surround the first side and a curved portion to surround the second side, the curved portion having a plurality of openings such that airflow produced by the fan device is capable of passing through.

Abstract: A heat transfer surface for a heat exchanger has a corrugated member having parallel spaced apart ridges and planar fin surfaces extending the ridges. Tabs are formed in the planar fin surfaces for forming counter-rotating vortices in the fluid flowing over the heat transfer surface, the tabs being lifted out of the surface of the planar fin surface and extending into or nesting within the openings formed by the corresponding tabs in the adjacent planar fin surface so as to achieve high fin density.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes a casing having intake and blow-out ports, a partition member dividing an interior of the casing, a heat exchanger, a centrifugal fan, a heater and a fan heat shield. The centrifugal fan includes a bladed wheel mounted in the fan compartment such that a rotary shaft of the bladed wheel is oriented along an opening direction of the fan entrance and an opening direction of the blow-out port, and the bladed wheel being made of resin. The heater is mounted in a blow-out port opposed space opposed to the blow-out port within a fan downwind space located on a downwind side of the bladed wheel within the fan compartment. The fan heat shield member is mounted in the fan downwind space in order to cover a part of the bladed wheel that is opposed to the heater.

Abstract: An outdoor cooling unit for vehicular air conditioning apparatus includes: a casing including an outlet section, inlet sections having an inlet plane inclined; a first heat exchanger facing one of the inlet sections and a second heat exchanger facing an other of the inlet sections; at least one propeller fan below the outlet section to blow out air upwardly. An angle formed between the normal line to the inlet plane and the z axis is an acute angle. Each of the blades includes a blade chord center point on an inner peripheral end thereof and an other blade chord center point on an outer peripheral end thereof, positioned so that a line segment connecting therebetween has an inclination to the outlet section proportionally to closeness to outer periphery of the blade. A blade chord center line forms a curve being convex toward the outlet section across the entire area.

Abstract: A CPU 110 compares the extracted outside air temperature with a first low pressure saturation temperature. When the outside air temperature is lower than the first low pressure saturation temperature, the CPU 110 switches a first three-way valve 22 and a second three-way valve 23 so that a second outdoor heat exchanger 25 is used as a condenser and that a first outdoor heat exchanger 24 is not used. When the outside air temperature is higher than a second low pressure saturation temperature which is the first low pressure saturation temperature to which a predetermined temperature is added, the CPU 110 switches the first three-way valve 22 and the second three-way valve 23 so that the first outdoor heat exchanger 24 is used as a condenser and that the second outdoor heat exchanger 25 is not used.

Abstract: A tubing element for a heat exchanger is at least partially a rigid elongated tubing having a first end, a second end, a first side wall and a second side wall. First and second side walls are substantially parallel to each other. The distance between first side wall and second side wall is considerably smaller than the width of first side wall and second side wall, resulting in a substantially overall flat tubing structure with connection walls on both sides. The tubing element has a plurality of fins on at least one of the outer surfaces of the first side wall and/or of the second side wall. Fins define an angle enclosed by the fins and a connection wall. A heat exchanger, use of a tubing element, use of a heat exchanger and method of manufacturing of a tubing element to manufacture at least partially a heat exchanger are included.

Abstract: An intercooler for an internal combustion engine has a fin-and-tube block including a plurality of flat heat transfer units having internal fluid passages orientated transversely to the direction of air flow, and arranged parallel to one another to define gaps therebetween. Fin units are disposed in the gaps and contact adjacent heat transfer units. Each fin unit defines a longitudinally-oriented air flow passage, the air flow passages having a first air flow area at an air inlet end and a second air flow area at an air outlet end, the first air flow area greater than the second air flow area. The fins of the fin units converge in the direction of the air flow through the passage so that the pitch of the fins at the air inlet end of is greater than the pitch of the fins at the air outlet end.

Abstract: A device for the recycling of exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle. The device comprises an exhaust gas heat exchanger constructed with a first housing element with an inlet and an outlet for the exhaust gas and at least one inlet and at least one outlet for a coolant, and a compressor which is constructed with a second housing element with an inlet and an outlet for the exhaust gas. The first housing element of the exhaust gas heat exchanger and the second housing element of the compressor are constructed as a housing connected to a cohesive, compact component so that the exhaust gas heat exchanger and the compressor are arranged inside the housing.

Abstract: Of four corner covers (40) in an indoor unit(10), a horizontal length of an outer surface in a second corner cover (41) is the same as a horizontal length of an outer surface in a first corner cover(41), a horizontal length of an outer surface in a third corner cover (43) and a horizontal length of an outer surface in a fourth corner cover (44) are the same and are smaller than the horizontal length of the outer surface of the first corner cover(41). Opening dimensions (LA, LB, LC, LD) of four air outlet ports (14) in a horizontal direction are the same.

Abstract: Embodiments of a modular air conditioning (AC) unit include a base unit and a blower selected from a group of blowers configured for different cooling capacities. The module AC unit also includes at least one heat exchanger unit selected from a group of substantially identical modular heat exchanger units, the number of heat exchanger units being selected based upon the desired cooling capacity. The at least one heat exchanger unit and the blower are assembled to the base unit to form a modular air conditioning circuit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas supply module (20) for an engine, comprising a heat exchanger (22) capable of cooling gases for the intake thereof in an intake space of a cylinder head of the engine, and a gas supply valve (24) capable of directing said gases toward the intake space of said cylinder head and/or through said heat exchanger (22), said module (20) further comprising an interface element (26) closing said intake space of said cylinder head. According to the invention, said interface element (26) and said valve (24) are shaped such that said valve (24) can be attached to said cylinder head via at least a first attachment means extending through at least the interface element (26). The invention also relates to an assembly of an engine cylinder head and such a module, and to a motor vehicle engine comprising such an assembly. The invention can particularly be used in the field of motor vehicles.

Abstract: A cooling device (1) comprises a top plate (2), a bottom plate (3), an axial flow inlet (4) in the top plate (2), a rotor support (5) on the top plate (2), and a pump rotor fan (6). The outer dimensions are 40 mm in diameter and 4 mm in height. The internal separation of the plates 2 and 3 is 4 mm. The cooling device (1) has a low profile in scale. Depending on the configuration and on operating parameters steady or unsteady fluid flow vortices can be created in the heat sink. The resulting flow field enhances heat transfer rates locally through impingement cooling and thermal transport by the vortices, whether generated to be steady or unsteady in nature. Also, the vortices drive a secondary flow within the heat sink, effectively creating a pumping mechanism, which further enhances heat transfer.

Abstract: In a highly efficient recuperator burner, which comprises at least one combustion chamber for warm-up operation and is otherwise set up for FLOX® operation, and a recuperator for preheating combustion air by means of thermal exhaust gas energy in a counter-current heat exchange mode via heat exchanger pipes, each heat exchanger pipe has, in a heat exchange section thereof, a flattened gap cross-section and, at its end facing a volume to be heated, a nozzle cross-section, which differs from the flattened gap cross-section of the heat exchanger pipe.

Abstract: A system and method for cooling heat-producing devices using synthetic jet embedded heat sinks is disclosed. The cooling system includes a heat sink comprising a base portion and a plurality of fins disposed on the base portion and extending vertically out therefrom, the plurality of fins spaced to define a channel between adjacent fins. The cooling system also includes at least one synthetic jet actuator attached to the heat sink, with each of the at least one synthetic jet actuators comprising a plurality of orifices therein and being configured to generate and project a series of fluid vortices out from the plurality of orifices and toward at least a portion of the channels of the heat sink.

Abstract: A comfort system outdoor unit with a heat exchanger coil and a fan in its top opening has an orifice structure and an insert registerable with the orifice structure to streamline the inward flow of air that passes over a lower end of the orifice structure. The insert may be fastened directly to the orifice structure lower end, or it may be installed so as to extend substantially from an upper edge of the coil to the orifice structure lower end.

Abstract: An air-to-fluid intercooler is disclosed. The air-to-fluid intercooler may include a core assembly including an outer circumference and an inner circumference, at least one annular tube body configured to direct flow of a cooling fluid within the core assembly, and at least one curved fin coupled to an exterior surface of the at least one annular tube body and configured to direct a flow of charge air through the core assembly.

Abstract: A centrifugal condenser in an engine has a stacked arrangement of interleaved plates surrounding a central core. Exhaust steam from the engine is directed through interior cavities of the plates while external cooling air from intake blowers circulates over outer surfaces of the plates to cool the plates and condense the steam on the opposite inner side of the plates. The water condensation is returned to a collection pan or sump for subsequent use in the engine.