With Coated, Roughened Or Polished Surface Patents (Class 165/133)
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Patent number: 7640969Abstract: According to the invention, in order to prevent a film from forming which obstructs the transfer of heat in heat exchanger pipes, the heat exchanger pipe comprises an external side which is adjacent to the external surface and which is impinged upon by a steam medium, and an inner side which is adjacent to an inner surface and which is impinged upon by a coolant, such that the outer surface is provided with a first layer which reduces the adhesion of the steam on the outer surface and/or the inner surface is provided with a second layer which reduces the adhesion of a coolant to the inner surface and which is embodied as a biocidal layer. The invention relates to a heat exchanger and to the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2005Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Friedhelm Schmitz
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Publication number: 20090314478Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a heat equalizing member for a fixing device of the invention, first, an elongated cylindrical pipe is prepared which is made of a metallic material and which has one end sealed while the other end opened. Next, a heat-resistant releasing layer is formed on the outer face of the pipe in close contact therewith. Then, operating fluid is injected into the pipe from an outside through the other end of the pipe, while the other end is sealed by welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tetsuya Yamada, Etsuaki Urano, Osamu Morita
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Publication number: 20090314477Abstract: A heat exchanger having a plurality of heat exchanging aluminum fins with hydrophilic condensing surfaces which are stacked and clamped between two cold plates. The cold plates are aligned radially along a plane extending through the axis of a cylindrical duct and hold the stacked and clamped portions of the heat exchanging fins along the axis of the cylindrical duct. The fins extend outwardly from the clamped portions along approximately radial planes. The spacing between fins is symmetric about the cold plates, and are somewhat more closely spaced as the angle they make with the cold plates approaches 90°. Passageways extend through the fins between vertex spaces which provide capillary storage and communicate with passageways formed in the stacked and clamped portions of the fins, which communicate with water drains connected to a pump externally to the duct. Water with no entrained air is drawn from the capillary spaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: ORBITAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher M. Thomas, Yonghui Ma, Andrew North, Mark M. Weislogel
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Publication number: 20090294109Abstract: In an MVR evaporator, a heat exchanger core comprises several condensing units. Each unit comprises front and back corrugated sheets, arranged trough-to-trough. The units are arranged side-by-side, in peak-to-trough configuration, creating sinuous passageways between the units. Steam is fed into the units through port-pipes, and the units are physically supported via the port-pipes from steam manifolds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventor: Talivaldis FORSTMANIS
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Publication number: 20090288809Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode that stabilizes properties and a film-forming rate of a coating made by surface treatment that uses the electrode showing a narrow distribution in physical properties such as a composition and resistance. A method of manufacturing an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode according to the present invention is identified as a method of manufacturing an electrical discharge surface treatment-purpose electrode formed of a green compact made of a metal powder subjected to compression molding, characterized in that the method includes the step of forming a nitride coating by nitriding a surface of the metal powder, and the step of forming a green compact by subjecting the metal powder having its surface nitrided to compression molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro SHIGYO, Yoshikazu Nakano
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Publication number: 20090260784Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a tubular portion configured to carry a first heat exchange medium and a finned portion coupled to the tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a tube and a coating disposed on the tube. The finned portion includes a fin strip disposed in a groove formed in the coating to secure the fin to the tube portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventor: Allan Stikeleather
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Publication number: 20090250198Abstract: The present invention relates to a hot water corrugated heat transfer tube that exchanges heat between its interior and exterior. A plurality of projections, each whose height (H1) is in the range of 0.5 mm-1.5 mm, is provided in at least one part of the inner surface of a portion positioned in a section of a corrugated heat transfer tube, where the Reynolds number (Re) of the fluid flowing in the interior of the tube is less than 7,000. The height H1 of the projections is in the range of 0.05-0.15 times the inner diameter D or the height H1 of the projections is in the range of 1-3 times the depth (Hm) of the corrugated grooves. As a result, with a simple structure, the heat transfer performance in the low Reynolds number zone is improved, and the pressure loss inside the tube is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2007Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicants: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Zhixing Li, Jian Meng, Mitsuharu Numata, Kazushige Kasai
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Publication number: 20090242177Abstract: A coating composition according to the present invention includes silica microparticles and fluorine resin particles. The coating film formed on a surface of an article includes a silica film composed of the silica microparticles, in which the fluorine resin particles are dotted so as to partially expose from a surface of the silica film, an exposed area of the silica film is larger than an exposed area of the fluorine resin particles, and amount of natrium contained in the coating composition is made equal to or less than 0.5% in a ratio by weight to contained amount of the silica microparticles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Reiji Morioka, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Teruhiko Kumada
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Publication number: 20090236083Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for small components through which a fluid may flow, made from several individual pieces, exclusively produced by forming and joined to each other, to an inlet channel, a planar heat exchange element and an outlet channel. The heat exchange element comprises an upper and lower side which may be connected to at least one heat source, characterized in that the inlet channel is made from a metal connector tube which continuously enlarges towards the heat exchange element on the inlet side up to the total cross-sectional flow area of the inlet side and face of the heat exchange element and the outlet channel continuously tapers away from the heat exchanger on the outlet side from the total cross-sectional flow area of the output side end face of the heat exchanger element to a metal connector tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2006Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Karine Brand, Florian Schopper, Oliver Woelflik
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Patent number: 7593229Abstract: A heat exchange structure includes elongated air ducts. Each air duct has a first opening and a second opening at two ends of the air duct to allow air to enter and exit the air duct, respectively. The heat exchange structure includes an exterior heat exchange surface and interior heat exchange surfaces, in which the exterior heat exchange surface is configured to receive thermal energy from heat generators that are mounted on the exterior heat exchange surface, and the exterior heat exchange surface dissipates a portion of the thermal energy received from the heat generators and transfers another portion of the thermal energy to the interior heat exchange surfaces. The interior heat exchange surfaces are in the elongated air ducts and configured to exchange thermal energy with air flowing in the air ducts, enhancing air flow in the air ducts by buoyancy of heated air.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Co. LtdInventor: Geoffrey Wen-Tai Shuy
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Patent number: 7575046Abstract: A method and system for stabilizing flow includes introducing a flow into a channel with a minimum cross-sectional dimension of less than three millimeters and triggering a release of one or more bubbles in the flow at one or more locations in the channel. The one or more locations are spaced in from an inlet and an outlet to the channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Rochester Institute of TechnologyInventor: Satish G. Kandlikar
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Publication number: 20090200002Abstract: A production method of a heat exchanger member to be brazed includes spraying particulate powder of metal less noble in corrosion potential than Al, an alloy of the metal, or a composition of the metal, at 150° C. or less at high speed onto a surface of a substrate of aluminum or its alloy to thereby make the particulate powder adhere to the surface. The metal is diffused in the surface layer portion of the substrate by the brazing heating to form a sacrificial corrosive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2006Publication date: August 13, 2009Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: Kazuhiko Minami, Ichiro Iwai
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Publication number: 20090166013Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention a condenser comprises an aluminum tube. The aluminum tube comprises a first interior surface in thermal communication with a first fluid and a second exterior surface in thermal communication with a second fluid. In an alternate embodiment a refrigerator comprises a condenser. The condenser further comprises an aluminum tube. The aluminum tube has a first interior surface in thermal communication with a first fluid and a second exterior surface in thermal communication with a second fluid. Wherein the first surface further comprises internal fins and the second surface further comprises external fins.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventor: Richard DeVos
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Publication number: 20090166014Abstract: In one embodiment, a heat exchanger may be formed using a corrosion-resistant aluminum material to enable usage of water as a working fluid for the exchanger. In one embodiment, the exchanger may have an aluminum substrate with multiple treated layers formed thereon. A first treated layer corresponds to a hydrated aluminum oxide layer, and a second treated layer corresponds to a mono-layer organic molecule layer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2007Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Je-Young Chang, Choong-Un Kim, Himanshu Pokharna, Rajiv K. Mongia
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Publication number: 20090166012Abstract: Process for the manufacture of a heat exchanger, including a surface treatment, and heat exchanger thus obtained Process for the manufacture of a heat exchanger, in particular an evaporator, comprising the preparation (A), assembly (B) and brazing (C) of components of the heat exchanger (1), the brazing (C) being carried out under given temperature conditions. Prior to the assembling (C) and to the brazing (B), a surface treatment operation (A101, A114) is carried out, consisting in applying a coating (102) to a chosen component (6), said coating comprising a support, at least one active agent suitable for giving the heat exchanger (1) chosen properties during its operation, and at least one thermal protection agent suitable for enabling the coating (102) to withstand the brazing temperature conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2005Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Christian Casenave, Frederic Meslin
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Publication number: 20090166015Abstract: A heat sink with fragrance is disclosed. The heat sink comprises a heat-dissipating unit and fragrant coating materials, wherein the fragrant coating materials are applied on at least a portion of the heat-dissipating unit; the fragrant coating materials comprise fragrant materials capable of releasing fragrance; and a heat generation element contacts the heat-dissipating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventors: Tzu-Wei Lin, Chen-Ming Sun
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Publication number: 20090159751Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention feature heat exchange surfaces having a layer or coating having a lower surface tension than water, to repel water and prevent the formation of condensate on said surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2005Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: WATERS INVESTMENTS LIMITEDInventors: Douglas P. Wittmer, Joseph Kareh, Theodore D. Ciolkosz, Joseph A. Jarrell
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Publication number: 20090145585Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a porous matrix of pellets of a material selected to exhibit very high thermal conductivity and having nonplanar surfaces thereby to promote porosity. The pellets are bonded together and to the interior of housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2007Publication date: June 11, 2009Inventor: Jason William Cosman
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Publication number: 20090139690Abstract: A heat sink includes a base body of an electrically insulating material and one or several metallic molded parts having a mounting portion and a heat-transfer portion, wherein the heat-transfer portion is mechanically connected to the base body. The heat sink can be inserted on a printed circuit board having several heat sources that can be at different electrical potentials, wherein the mounting portions of the molded parts are soldered to respective heat sources or close to the respective heat sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur, Foerderung der angewandten, Forschung e. V.Inventors: Martin MAERZ, Dimitar Tchobanov, Bernd Eckhardt, Stefan Zeltner, Sven Egelkraut, Simon Amesoeder
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Patent number: 7537050Abstract: For the purpose of increasing the area of an adsorbent to be in contact with the air, a heat exchanger (47, 49) includes: a fin set (59) including a plurality of fins (57) arranged parallel to each other with an interval therebetween; a framework (61) arranged to surround end faces of the fin set (59) in the arrangement direction of the fins and end faces of the fin set (59) in the lengthwise direction of the fins; a serpentine heat transfer tube (63) having straight parts (63a) penetrating the fin set (59) in the arrangement direction of the fins and U-shaped parts (63b) protruding out of the framework (61); and a connector tube (65) for connecting the heat transfer tube with a refrigeration pipe. An adsorbent capable of adsorbing moisture from the air and desorbing the moisture into the air is supported on the surfaces of the fin set (59), the framework (61), the heat transfer tube (63) and the connector tube (65), respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shuji Ikegami, Hirohiko Matsushita
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Publication number: 20090107658Abstract: A brazing method is provided for brazing a metallic material for brazing to another metallic material. The metallic material for brazing includes a base material portion made of copper or a copper alloy containing chrome by a predetermined amount, and a metallic film portion made of a material having a melting point lower than a heating temperature in brazing, and provided on the surface of the base material portion. The brazing method includes a step of assembling the metallic material for brazing and the another metallic material to form an assembly, a step of heating and brazing the assembly, in which the metallic film portion is melted to diffuse chrome into a surface of the metallic material for brazing, and a step of forming a chrome oxide film by using the chrome diffused into the surface of the metallic material for brazing in atmosphere after the brazing step.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Luvata Sweden ABInventors: Shin Takewaka, Sumio Susa, Tooru Ikeda, Shoei Teshima, Anders Falkeno, Ulrik Palmqvist, Leif Tapper
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Publication number: 20090101319Abstract: A process involving heat exchange that employs heat exchangers where the process material flows over a heat transfer surface in which a process material passes through the process conduit of a heat exchanger wherein the desired velocity profile of the process material passing through the process conduit is achieved by varying the cross sectional area of the process conduit in 3 or more locations along the path length of the process conduit which allows better regulation of heating or cooling within the system which, for some processes, will result in improved temperature control.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2006Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: ASHE MORRIS LTDInventor: Robert Ashe
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Publication number: 20090090491Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of a zeolite layer on a substrate containing metal, comprising the following method steps: production of an aqueous suspension, comprising several components, one component comprises at least one cross-linking element from the third, fourth or fifth main group of the periodic table, the substrate containing metal comprises at least one of the cross-linking elements, introduction of the substrate containing metal to the aqueous suspension, heating the aqueous suspension and the substrate containing the metal present therein for the in-situ crystallisation of a zeolite layer on the substrate containing metal, whereby the cross-linking elements in the substrate containing metal are extracted and included in the zeolite layer, a cross-linking element present in the suspension for formation of the zeolite layer is present at a concentration so low that a crystallisation in the suspension is largely or completely avoided and said element is principally provided by thType: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2005Publication date: April 9, 2009Inventors: Wilhelm Schwieger, Ralph Hermann, Selvam Thangaraj, Marthala Reddy, Franziska Scheffler, Ferdinand Schmidt, Walter Mittelbach, Hans-Martin Hennig, Bauer Jurgen
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Patent number: 7503381Abstract: There is disclosed a rust prevention and hydrophilization treatment method for a flux-brazed aluminum-made heat exchanger which comprises subjecting the same to a rust prevention treatment by the use of a zirconium base compound and/or a titanium base compound, and thereafter subjecting the same to a hydrophilization treatment by means of a hydrophilization treatment agent composition containing the under-mentioned components: (1) 40 to 90% by mass of polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of saponification of at least 90%; (2) 3 to 40% by mass of polyoxyalkylene-modified polyvinyl alcohol in which 0.01 to 20% of pendant groups are polyoxyalkylene ether groups; (3) 1 to 30% by mass of an inorganic cross-linking agent which reacts with hydroxyl groups of the polyvinyl alcohol and modified polyvinyl alcohol; and (4) 1 to 20% by mass of a guanidine compound and/or a salt thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignees: Nippon Paint Co., Ltd., Denso CorporationInventors: Toshio Inbe, Norizumi Matsui, Kengo Kobayashi, Osamu Kasebe
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Publication number: 20090067133Abstract: A protective device (10) for protecting thermal interface material (30) spread on a central surface (512) of a bottom of a base (51) of a heat sink (50). The device includes a case (12) and a tab (18) extending from an edge of the case. The heat sink (50) has air channels (552) extending vertically therethrough and around the base. The case comprises an annular frame (120) and a cap (15) protruding downwardly from inside edges of the frame. The cap covers the thermal interface material. The frame is attached to the heat sink around the thermal interface material. The frame blocks portions of the air channels adjacent to the base, thereby to prevent dust or foreign particles from contaminating the thermal interface material through the air channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicants: FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: DONG-YUN LI, JING ZHANG, JIAN YANG
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Publication number: 20090056917Abstract: A heat pipe comprising a chamber; a wick in the chamber, and a heat sink, which is adjacent to a first portion of the wick. A heat source adjacent to a second portion of the wick, wherein the wick is configured such that a gas condenses at the first portion of the wick and a liquid evaporates at the second portion of the wick. The fluid moves from the first portion of the wick to the second portion of the wick, and wherein the wick comprises nanostructures having a differentially-spaced apart gradient along the length of the wick so as to promote capillary fluid flow therealong.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2006Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Arun Majumdar, Rohit Karnik, Woochul Kim
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Patent number: 7493941Abstract: The present invention reduces the expense of treating the surfaces of a plate material. This surface treatment method treats the surfaces of a plate material that is rolled with rolling oil and employed as a cooling fin of a heat exchanger, and includes a preparation step and a coating application step. In the preparation step, the plate material is prepared. In the coating application step, a coating is applied to the surface of the plate material without carrying out a degreasing treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: February 24, 2009Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiraku Kawasaki, Shinichirou Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7490658Abstract: An internally grooved heat transfer tube for a cross fin tube type heat exchanger of a refrigerating air-conditioning water supply apparatus using a high-pressure refrigerant, wherein an intra-tubular heat transfer rate is improved while maintaining a sufficient strength for pressure resistance. A heat transfer tube formed of copper or copper alloy has internal fins between internal grooves. In the tube, t/D is not smaller than 0.041 and not greater than 0.146, d2/A is not smaller than 0.75 and not greater than 1.5, where D [mm] is an outside diameter of the tube, t [mm] is a groove bottom thickness, d [mm] is a depth of each groove, and A [mm2] is a cross sectional area of each groove. N/Di is not smaller than 8 and not greater than 24 where N is a number of grooves, and Di is a maximum inside diameter corresponding to an inside diameter of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2007Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Naoe Sasaki, Takashi Kondo, Shiro Kakiyama
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Publication number: 20090038786Abstract: The invention relates to a conducting device, in particular a corrugated fin, for a heat exchanger, having at least one surface. In order to improve the efficiency of heat exchangers, in particular of evaporators, the surface of the conducting device has an increased roughness, in particular microscopic roughness.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Matthias Pfitzer, Ingo Trautwein
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Publication number: 20090025911Abstract: A heat dissipation device with coarse surface capable of intensifying heat transfer includes a main body and a heat transfer intensifying unit. The main body provides a surface and the heat transfer intensifying unit is disposed on the surface. The heat transfer intensifying unit further includes at least a raised part and a plurality of fish-scale-like parts. The raised parts are disposed slightly upright from said surface and spacing apart a distance from each other. The fish-scale-like parts each are disposed on the surface of the main body next to the raised parts orderly, provide a recess toward the surface of the main body with an inclining angle from the surface of the main body, have a vertical edge and a sharp end and the sharp end is formed at an intersection of the vertical edge of the respective fish-scale-like part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventor: SHIH-WEI CHANG
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Publication number: 20090025912Abstract: A heat dissipation apparatus with coarse surface capable of intensifying heat transfer includes a main body and a heat transfer intensifying unit. The main body provides four plate members to define a flow passage. The heat transfer intensifying unit is provided on the surface of one of the plate members or the surfaces of two of the plate members and further includes at least a raised part and a plurality of fish-scale-like parts. The raised parts are disposed slightly upright from said surface and spacing apart a distance from each other. The fish-scale-like parts each are disposed on the surface of the main body next to the raised parts orderly, provide a recess toward the surface of the main body with an inclining angle from the surface of the main body, have a vertical edge and a sharp end and the sharp end is formed at an intersection of the vertical edge of the respective fish-scale-like part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventor: SHIH-WEI CHANG
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Publication number: 20090008068Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing an aluminum heat exchanger tube. In forming a thermally sprayed layer 21 on a surface of an aluminum flat tube by thermally spraying Al—Si alloy thermal-spraying particles, quenching the thermally sprayed thermal-spraying particles in a molten state to make them adhere to the tube core 2a. The surface of the thermally sprayed layer 21 is smoothed with, e.g., reduction rolls to form a brazing layer 20. With this method, brazing defects due to fin detachment, erosion to the tube of the brazing material, etc., can be prevented, resulting in good brazing performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2005Publication date: January 8, 2009Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.KInventors: Kazuhiko Minami, Tomoaki Yamanoi, Takenori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20080308262Abstract: The invention relates to a humidity- and/or heat-exchange device, for example a plate heat exchanger a sorption rotor, an adsorption dehumidifying rotor or the similar, provided with humidity- and/or heat exchange surfaces which make it possible to introduce humidity and/or heat into a fluid flow and/or to remove them therefrom and/or to exchange said humidity and/or heat between fluid flows. The inventive device is also provided with a coating, which makes it possible to cover said humidity and heat exchange surfaces and consists of a zeolithe material and a bonding agent. In order to improve the performance of the humidity- and/or heat-exchange device, the zeolithe material is embodied in the form of a synthetic nano-zeolithe consisting of particles whose size is <1000 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2006Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicants: KLINGENBURG GMBH, NANOSCAPE AGInventors: Jürgen Sauer, Thomas Westerdorf, Hans Klingenburg
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Publication number: 20080302517Abstract: A heat exchange member comprising a liquid layer and a solid layer capable of conducting a heat exchange reaction with the liquid layer upon their solid-liquid contact at an interface between the solid layer and the solid layer, wherein the solid layer further comprises on a surface thereof which is contacted with the liquid layer a surface coating layer capable of reducing a difference of the vibration between a thermal vibration of the solid and a thermal vibration of the liquid, and the surface coating layer comprises a plurality of fibrous structures arranged on a surface of the solid layer, and a heat exchange apparatus using the heat exchange member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, The University Of TokyoInventors: Touru Kawaguchi, Eiichi Torigoe, Yasumasa Hagiwara, Yoichiro Matsumoto, Gota Kikugawa, Taisuke Sugii
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Patent number: 7446412Abstract: Some aspects include a heat sink base, an upper metal cladded to an upper surface of the heat sink base, the upper metal defining at least one groove, and a heat sink fin disposed in the groove and secured to the upper metal. Some aspects may also include a lower metal cladded to a lower surface of the heat sink base, and a pedestal secured to the lower cladding.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Paul J Gwin
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Publication number: 20080257533Abstract: An aluminum heat exchanger having increased resistance to galvanic corrosion. The exterior of one end of the aluminum tube or connector is coated with a metal or metal alloy. This end is brazed onto a copper or copper alloy inlet or outlet tube. The metal or metal alloy coating inhibits the formation of galvanic corrosion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: LUVATA FRANKLIN, INC.Inventor: Edward G. Rottmann
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Patent number: 7440280Abstract: A heat exchange structure includes a plurality of elongated air ducts. The heat exchange structure has an exterior heat exchange surface and interior heat exchange surfaces, the interior surfaces being in the elongated air ducts. The heat exchange structure includes a plurality of heat generators that are distributed on the exterior heat exchange surface along an elongated direction of the air ducts, in which air flowing in the air duct is heated successively by heat from the heat generators, and air flow in the air duct is enhanced by buoyancy of heated air.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Co., LtdInventor: Geoffrey Wen-Tai Shuy
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Patent number: 7438121Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aluminum heat exchanger includes the steps of: obtaining a heat exchanger tube 2 by forming a Zn thermally sprayed layer on a surface of an aluminum flat tube core so as to adjust Zn adhesion amount to 1 to 10 g/m2; obtaining a heat exchanger core by alternatively arranging the heat exchanger tube 2 and an aluminum fin 3 and brazing the heat exchanger tube and the fin with end portions of the heat exchanger tube connected to aluminum headers in fluid communication; and forming a chemical conversion treatment coat (corrosion resistance coat) on a surface of the heat exchanger core by subjecting the surface of the heat exchanger core to chemical conversion treatment using at least one chemical conversion treatment agent selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid chromate, chromic acid chromate, phosphoric acid zirconium series, phosphoric acid titanium series, fluoridation zirconium series, and fluoridation titanium series.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.Inventors: Kazuhiko Minami, Daishi Tanaka, Shintaro Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20080245512Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular an exhaust gas heat exchanger, having at least one surface which is impinged on by a medium, in particular exhaust gas, is made from metal, in particular aluminum or stainless steel, and is provided with a coating. In order to improve the properties of the coating, according to the invention, the coating comprises a coating material based on nanotechnology.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2006Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Klaus Fischle, Dieter Gross, Oliver Mamber, Matthias Pfitzer
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Patent number: 7422706Abstract: A process for the preparation of hydrogen and carbon monoxide containing gas from a gaseous hydrocarbon feedstock by performing the following steps: (a) partial oxidation of part of the feedstock thereby obtaining a first gaseous mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; and, (b) catalytic steam reforming of part of the gaseous feedstock in a Convective Steam Reformer having a tubular reactor provided with one or more tubes containing a reforming catalyst, wherein the exterior of the tubes of the tubular reactor is used to cool the hot gas as obtained in step (a) and wherein the exterior of the tubes is a metal alloy surface having between 0 wt % and 20 wt % iron.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Franciscus Gerardus Van Dongen, Winnifred De Graaf, Thian Hoey Tio, Anthonij Wolfert
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Publication number: 20080173432Abstract: A heat exchange structure includes elongated air ducts. Each air duct has a first opening and a second opening at two ends of the air duct to allow air to enter and exit the air duct, respectively. The heat exchange structure includes an exterior heat exchange surface and interior heat exchange surfaces, in which the exterior heat exchange surface is configured to receive thermal energy from heat generators that are mounted on the exterior heat exchange surface, and the exterior heat exchange surface dissipates a portion of the thermal energy received from the heat generators and transfers another portion of the thermal energy to the interior heat exchange surfaces. The interior heat exchange surfaces are in the elongated air ducts and configured to exchange thermal energy with air flowing in the air ducts, enhancing air flow in the air ducts by buoyancy of heated air.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: July 24, 2008Inventor: Geoffrey Wen-Tai Shuy
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Publication number: 20080176289Abstract: At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an apparatus that includes a microfluidic channel and at least one energy absorbing element, where the energy absorbing element is configured to absorb at least a portion of an incident electromagnetic radiation. The absorption of the radiation by the energy absorbing element varies the temperature of a sample in the microfluidic channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: CANON U.S. LIFE SCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Shulin Zeng, Kenton C. Hasson, Gregory A. Dale, John Keady
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Patent number: 7395852Abstract: A thermal concentrator composition with optimized design and reduced thermal resistance as a means of enhancing heat transfer and energy conversion. The composition comprises a low thermal resistance coating and methods of achieving quantum regions of energy transfer and non-linear design features resulting from cost effective manufacturing methods applicable to the material composition. The thermal concentrator composition is selected principally from the group of surface coatings, preferably comprised of diamond coatings, which are critical to obtaining maximum thermal transfer through classical and such quantum means including tunneling, waves, and phonon conversions.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Inventor: Michael H Gurin
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Publication number: 20080156457Abstract: The base of a heat sink may be selectively plated with a solder wetting material and soldered to an integral heat spreader also selectively plated with gold. In another embodiment, the solder may be applied in the form of an insert made up of an electrical heating wire sandwiched between indium foil which acts as solder when heated by the intervening wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Matthew J. Schaenzer, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, Tim A. Renfro, Manjit Dhindsa, Vaibhav P. Trivedi
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Patent number: 7387155Abstract: A colored heat dissipating device comprises at least one heat conductive tube; a plurality of fins combined with the heat dissipating device; each fin being formed with a colored protection film by anodizing processing. Furthermore, a colored heat dissipating device comprises at least one seat; a plurality of fins combined with the seat; each fin being formed with a colored protection film by anodizing processing. Moreover the protection films of all the fins have the same color, the fins are combined with the heat conductive tube by punching. Or the protection films of fins are divided into several sets, the sets have different colors, the fins are combined with the heat conductive tube by punching. Thus the heat dissipating devices is anti-oxidized, erode-proof and dirt-proof. Thereby the indication on the protection film can be used to indicate the specifications of electronic devices suitable to be used therewith.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2005Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Inventor: Shyh Ming Chen
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Publication number: 20080128121Abstract: Taught herein is a heat retainer for a heat exchanger the retainer having a coating layer. At least one surface of the heat retainer is coated with a highly-radiative material forming a coating layer whose emissivity is greater than that of a substrate material of which the core of the heat retainer is made. The heat retainer is in the shape of a honeycomb, a fin, a ball, an ellipse or a plate, and one or a plurality of inner holes are disposed therein. The substrate of which the heat retainer is made is a refractory material, a ceramic material or a steel material. The heat retainer has comparatively good heat absorption and emission performance; heat storage capacity is increased, diathermancy is improved, and energy is saved.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2005Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventor: Huimin Zhou
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Publication number: 20080121384Abstract: A liquid cooled heat dissipator includes water channels, rows of heat dissipating fins respectively received in a corresponding one of the water channels and each heat dissipating fin having a ridge and a trough, a first water tank mounting seat having first openings defined to respectively communicate with the water channels, a second water tank mounting seat opposite to the first water tank mounting seat and having multiple second openings respectively communicating with the water channels, a first water tank in the first water tank mounting seat and a second water tank mounted in the second water tank mounting seat for turning water flow in the water channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventor: Po-Yung Tseng
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Publication number: 20080093058Abstract: A cooler includes a vessel enclosed with a body shell comprising a thermally conductive side; a liquid coolant at least partially filling the vessel; and an extended heat conducting structure having a boiling enhancement surface coupled to the thermally conductive side at a surface within the vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventor: Jesse Jaejin Kim
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Patent number: 7357175Abstract: The invention relates to a heating element comprising a base body (4) made of metal, preferably aluminum or stainless steel, the surface (10) of which is highly polished and corrosion resistant.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Inventor: Silvia Bader
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Patent number: 7353863Abstract: A method of surface treating an aluminum alloy base body of an heat exchanger which method enables an etching procedure to be carried out uniformly and quickly and a corrosion-resistant chemical conversion coating to be formed, is effected by pretreating the Al heat exchanger base body with an aqueous pre-treating liquid having a pH of 9.0 or less, etching the pretreated base body with an aqueous alkaline solution having a pH of 9.0 or more, and then subjecting the etched base body to a chemical conversion treatment or a hydrophilicity-enhancing treatment.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kengo Kobayashi, Osamu Kasebe, Hiroyoshi Sugawara, Kazuhisa Uchiyama, Kenji Karube, Kazunari Hamamura, Kensuke Shimoda