Line Connected Conduit Assemblies Patents (Class 165/144)
  • Patent number: 8256503
    Abstract: A plastic heat exchanger has a shell with tanks disposed side-by-side. First and last distribution tanks straddle heat transfer tanks. The shell has a plurality of flow gaps, to allow coolant to flow between adjacent tanks. Spacers hold the flow gaps open. Upper and lower flanges are adhesively attached to the shell. Flange holes align with the tanks. Each flange hole has an annular wall encircling one of the tanks to preclude the shell from expanding. Upper and lower manifolds are adjacent the flanges, and have chambers disposed side-by-side for each heat transfer tank. Baffles are adapted to be removably received between the chambers to selectively block flow. A plurality of tubes extends between upper and lower tube headers, comprising a tube bundle, removably received within each of the heat transfer tanks. A header O-ring is between each header and flange. A seal plate is disposed against each flange. Each seal plate has seal plate holes in alignment with the flange holes, defining a hole pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: Richard D. Cox
  • Patent number: 8240365
    Abstract: It is known that corrugated plate heat exchangers can have good thermal and hydraulic performance but limitations with regard to operational pressures whilst conventional tube type heat exchangers can achieve high pressure operation but can have high flow pressure losses due to the configuration of such tubes. By arranging a tube stack comprising respective tubes 2a, 3a arranged in layers typically one upon the other with cross junctions 4 between them and intersticial gaps between tubes it is possible to create swirling spinning motion in the flow possibly inside and at least outside the tubes for improved heat exchange with only limited flow restriction. The swirling flow in the heat exchanger matrix outside of the tubes passes along channels formed by the interconnecting intersticial gaps between the tubes and is guided about those tubes for heat exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventors: Mitsuru Obana, Andrew M Rolt
  • Patent number: 8191615
    Abstract: A heat exchanger apparatus is provided wherein a multifluid or at least three-fluid heat exchanger is mounted externally to but in combination with a two-fluid heat exchanger. The multifluid heat exchanger includes three fluid passages or conduits wherein heat energy can be transferred efficiently between at least one of the fluid conduits and each of the other fluid conduits. The multifluid heat exchanger and two fluid heat exchanger are arranged so that the two heat exchangers share a common fluid, the multifluid heat exchanger, therefore, allowing heat transfer to or from the common fluid to the two other fluids in the multifluid heat exchanger thereby improving the overall heat transfer amongst the fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Allan K. So, Mark S. Kozdras
  • Patent number: 8118085
    Abstract: According to the invention, a heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger may include a first tube sheet, a second tube sheet, a heat exchange tube, a header, and a coupling. The heat exchange tube may be disposed at least partially between the first tube sheet and the second tube sheet, and may also be made of a first material. The header may be made of a second material. The coupling may include a first end and a second end. The first end may be made of the first material, and the second end may be made of the second material. The first end may be operably coupled with the heat exchange tube, and the second end may be operably coupled with the header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Leprino Foods Company
    Inventors: Mark A. Cramer, Kevin B. Akins, James A. Ehret, Dennis K. Klakring, Jerry C. O'Connor, Joseph Michael Fazzari
  • Patent number: 8091617
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, such as a condenser or a gas cooler for an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle, has at least two fin/tube cores which have, on two opposite sides of the fin/tube cores, at least two collecting tubes which can have a flow connection to one another. The collecting tubes can have connecting or junction members which each co-operate with a closure plate or separating plate in order to make the heat exchanger easier to manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Timo Kirschenmann
  • Patent number: 7975479
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a fluid handling system is disclosed. The heat exchanger may have an inlet configured to receive a fluid at a first temperature, and an outlet configured to discharge the fluid at a second temperature lower than the first. The heat exchanger may also have at least one fluid passageway disposed to conduct the fluid from the inlet to the outlet. The at least one fluid passageway may have a first section fabricated from a first material, and a second section fabricated from a dissimilar second material. At least one of the first and second materials may include a thermally conductive polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Orhan Altin, Rishabh Sinha, Jiubo Ma, Kent Clark Bates
  • Publication number: 20110127021
    Abstract: A heat exchanging system is provided. The heat exchanging system includes multiple plates wound spirally around a reaction chamber. The multiple plates also form multiple channels that operate as a counter flow recuperator terminating within the reaction chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Sebastian Walter Freund, Gabriel Rojas Kopeinig
  • Patent number: 7931074
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes which are arranged in parallel and through which a fluid for heating air flows. Fins which are joined to the tubes. The tubes and the fins are arranged to form three or more heating parts and at least two bypass passages each of which is provided between adjacent heating parts, through which the air passes without exchanging heat with the thermal fluid. First and second tank parts are arranged at two longitudinal ends of the tubes and extend across the bypass passages and the heating parts. The bypass passages and the heating parts are arranged perpendicular to an air flow direction. The heating heat exchanger is disposed in an air conditioning case down stream from an evaporator. The air conditioning case is separated into two air outlets. Cold air from the bypass passages and hot air from the heating parts are mixed prior to being blown through the air outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Kouji Itou
  • Publication number: 20110073291
    Abstract: A cooling module for a vehicle includes a combo cooler associated with a vehicle. A heat rejecter includes tubes arranged in a planar configuration. A low temperature radiator is associated with the heat rejecter and includes low temperature radiator tubes arranged in a planar configuration. Manifolds are independently configured to supply a refrigerant to the heat rejecter and a coolant to the low temperature radiator. A high temperature radiator is disposed adjacent and parallel to the combo cooler, and downstream of the combo cooler relative to an air stream flowing through the combo cooler and the high temperature radiator. The high temperature radiator is associated with a high temperature cooling loop of the vehicle, and cools an other coolant flowing therethrough. An operating temperature of refrigerant in the heat rejecter and an operating temperature of coolant in the low temperature radiator are lower than an operating temperature of the other coolant in the high temperature radiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventor: Zaiqian Hu
  • Publication number: 20110056674
    Abstract: A cooling system and method are provided for facilitating cooling of multiple liquid-cooled electronics racks. The cooling system includes a main system coolant supply loop with a plurality of system coolant supply branch lines for facilitating supply of cooled system coolant to the electronics racks, and a main system coolant return loop with a plurality of system coolant return branch lines for facilitating return of exhausted system coolant from the electronics racks. When operational, cooled system coolant circulates through the coolant supply loop and exhausted system coolant circulates through the coolant return loop. A plurality of modular cooling units are coupled to the coolant supply loop and coolant return loop. Each modular cooling unit includes a heat exchanger to facilitate cooling of a portion of the exhausted coolant circulating through the main system coolant return loop for return as cooled system coolant to the main system coolant supply loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. CAMPBELL, Richard C. CHU, Michael J. ELLSWORTH, JR., Madhusudan K. IYENGAR, Robert E. SIMONS
  • Publication number: 20100326639
    Abstract: A spacer includes a plane portion and at least one positioning portion. The plane portion is interposed between two pipe arrays stacked one another. Each of the two pipe arrays is formed by arranging at least one pipe along a plane which crosses a stacking direction of the two pipe arrays. The at least one positioning portion positions the at least one pipe in at least one of the two pipe arrays on the plane portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: PALOMA INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshio Ando
  • Patent number: 7856949
    Abstract: An array of a plurality of heat pipe are mounted in spaced relationship to one another with the hot end of the heat pipes in a heated environment, e.g. the exhaust flue of a furnace, and the cold end outside the furnace. Heat conversion equipment is connected to the cold end of the heat pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam D. Polcyn
  • Patent number: 7846303
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-structured internal heat exchange-type distillation column including at least an outermost heat exchange section, an intermediate section, and an innermost heat exchange section, in which the innermost heat exchange section is isolated from the intermediate section, the outermost heat exchange section is also isolated from the intermediate section, the outermost heat exchange section and the innermost heat exchange section are in communication with one another through at least two vapor tunnel connecting ports, a channel is formed inside the outermost heat exchange section in such a manner that, in a case where at least one of the vapor tunnel connecting ports serves as an inlet for vapor from the innermost heat exchange section into the outermost heat exchange section, and the other vapor tunnel connecting port serves as an outlet for vapor from the outermost heat exchange section back to the innermost heat exchange section, the vapor can smoothly flow in one-way traffi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Kansai Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Noda, Hiroshi Yamaji, Nobuyuki Kuratani, Kunio Kataoka
  • Patent number: 7775263
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger, which can independently controls the volume of heat exchange medium flowing through tubes of a left heat exchange part and a right heat exchange part to independently control the temperature of a driver's seat and a passenger's seat, thereby realizing a compact structure since a temp door for controlling temperature is omitted from an air-conditioning system for the vehicle, which can reduce an operating force and increase durability since heat exchange medium controlling means are in a rotational structure, and which can minimize a temperature difference between the right and left sides thereof since the heat exchange medium is distributed to the tubes uniformly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corporation
    Inventor: Seongseok Han
  • Patent number: 7748437
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including at least a first manifold and a second manifold connected by a bundle of horizontal tubes. An air flow circulates to be cooled by a cooling air flow. The bundle includes at least: a first portion including a first series of tubes with turbulators of passage section corresponding to the section; a second portion including a first series of tubes with no turbulators of passage section and a second series of tubes with turbulators of passage section corresponding to the section; and a distribution box of internal air flow to be cooled including a connection mechanism between the first portion and the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Renault S.A.S.
    Inventor: Jean-Yves Rohellec
  • Patent number: 7726387
    Abstract: An evaporator 1 comprises a heat exchange core 4 having heat exchange tubes 12 in groups 13, a refrigerant inlet header 5 and a refrigerant outlet header 6 which are arranged toward one end of each of the heat exchange tubes 12, and a refrigerant inflow header 9 and a refrigerant outflow header 11 which are arranged toward the other end of each heat exchange tube 12. The outflow header 11 has its interior divided by a flow dividing control wall 52 into two spaces 11a, 11b arranged one above the other. The inflow header 9 and the lower space 11b of the outflow header 11 are held in communication each at one end thereof. The control wall 52 has a plurality of refrigerant passing holes 53 arranged at a spacing longitudinally thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventor: Naohisa Higashiyama
  • Patent number: 7703282
    Abstract: The heat exchanger of the present invention has a charge air cooler stacked upstream of a jacket water cooler. The charge air cooler is split into two sections. Each section has a vertical tank and header on the outside of the charge air cooler. Charge air enters the respective tanks and then horizontally flows to a vertical center tank, where it flows vertically to the outlet, and is routed to the engine. Maximum entering temperature differentials in the charge air cooler occurs at the sides of the cooler, as does maximum heat energy transfer. The air passing through the middle of the charge air cooler (adjacent the vertical center tank) gains the least amount of heat energy. The jacket water cooler can be a vertical flow cooler. A significant portion of the jacket water cooler at the middle of the jacket water cooler operates at increased entering temperature differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: IEA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Paul Meissner, Randall Lee Chartrand
  • Publication number: 20100071873
    Abstract: A modular heat-exchange system, includes a plurality of heat exchanger modules, each of which includes a plate provided with internal conduits for the passage of a conditioning fluid. The conduits contain openings on connecting sides of the plate and locking arrangement for connecting two adjacent heat exchanger modules in an assembly. A connecting arrangement is provided for sealingly connecting the openings of the two adjacent heat exchanger modules. Each heat exchanger module includes on each connecting side a seat containing at least one of the openings and configured so as to form with a similar seat of an adjacent heat exchanger module a housing that is open and arranged for receiving the locking arrangement and the connecting arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventor: Paolo Campagna
  • Publication number: 20100059198
    Abstract: A system for configuring earth probes (1) for receiving thermal energy from the earth and/or for discharging thermal energy into the earth, including a conductor system having a feed and a return line, which are connected to each other at the lower end of the earth probe (1), the system including probe modules (11, 12), which each form a section (15, 16) of the feed and/or return line of the earth probe (1) and which can be connected to each other at least by a positive and/or non-positive connection, preferably a plug-in connection, and a base piece (13), which forms a section of the conductor system of the earth probe (1). The section connects the feed line to the return line, and can be connected to the probe modules (11, 12) via at least one positive and/or non-positive connection, preferably a plug-in connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: A&S UMWELTTECHNOLOGIE AG
    Inventors: Armin Amann, Wilhelm Sonderegger
  • Patent number: 7665513
    Abstract: A heat exchanger structure of an automatic transmission stabilizing a temperature of oil is provided. A heat exchanger structure of an automatic transmission includes an automatic transmission, a first heat exchanger provided on an upstream side and a second heat exchanger provided on a downstream side, each capable of cooling oil ejected from the automatic transmission, and a thermo valve capable of supplying oil subject to heat exchange by at least one of first and second heat exchangers to the automatic transmission. When a temperature of the oil is relatively low, the thermo valve supplies oil passed through the first heat exchanger to the automatic transmission and shuts off a flow of oil from the second heat exchanger to the automatic transmission. When a temperature of the oil is relatively high, the thermo valve supplies oil passed through first and second heat exchangers to the automatic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kazumichi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100012302
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has a cross-current/counter-current structure, so that air which is directed across the heat exchanger is heated in the two successive rows. This design takes advantage of the temperature glide of a refrigerant blend. In this design, the hottest refrigerant blend is in contact with the hottest air, and the coldest refrigerant blend is in contact with the coldest air, leading to a lower difference between the average refrigerant blend temperature and the average air temperature compared to a pure refrigerant in a one-row heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Denis Clodic, Youssef Riachi
  • Patent number: 7640970
    Abstract: An evaporator utilizes micro-channel tubes, and more particularly, has a structure of a heat exchanger using micro-channel tubes, which is applied to an evaporator of a household air conditioner. The evaporator, using micro-channel tubes, includes a first heat exchanging unit including a pair of upper and lower headers, and a plurality of the micro-channel tubes erected vertically between the headers so that condensed water flows downward, and a second heat exchanging unit, installed adjacent to the first heat exchanging unit, includes a pair of upper and lower headers, and a plurality of the micro-channel tubes erected vertically between the headers so that condensed water flows downward. A plurality of return pipes connect upper headers of neighboring heat exchanging units to transmit refrigerant between the neighboring heat exchanging units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jeung Hoon Kim, Hong Gi Cho, Seong Ho Kil, Keum Nam Cho, Baek Youn, Hyoung Mo Koo, Jai Kwon Lee
  • Patent number: 7556091
    Abstract: A heating heat exchanger in a coolant circuit for motor vehicles is provided whereby the air to be heated can be additionally heated by a refrigerant circuit, operable as heat pump or short circuit, for additional heating. A gas cooler/condenser for the additional heating operation and a functionally separated evaporator for the cooling plant operation of the refrigerant circuit are provided. The heat exchanger surfaces of the gas cooler/condenser for the additional heating operation are integrated into the heating heat exchanger and an additional heating operation the air to be heated is simultaneously heated by the heating heat exchanger and the gas cooler/condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roman Heckt, Dragi Antonijevic
  • Publication number: 20090139474
    Abstract: An air-to-air aftercooler is disclosed. The air-to-air aftercooler includes at least one core assembly and two inlet lines connected to the core assembly. The air-to-air aftercooler may also include a single outlet line configured to direct cooled charge air to an intake manifold of an engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Inventor: Mahesh Kumar Mokire
  • Publication number: 20090095452
    Abstract: A thermal-dissipating device is made by connecting a plurality of thermal-dissipating sheets with each other. The thermal-dissipating sheets include a plurality of connecting portions and a plurality of thermal-dissipating fins. The connecting portions are connected with each other. The thermal-dissipating fins are connected with the connecting portions, respectively. At least one set of the thermal-dissipating fins are connected with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventor: Ching-Sung Kuo
  • Publication number: 20090084529
    Abstract: A horizontal cooler module includes a heat sink formed of a stack of radiation fins, a base block tightly fitted into the bottom side of the heat sink, and heat pipes each having a first extension arm respectively tightly inserted through the radiation fins and a second extension arm respectively fitted into the bottom open grooves of the base block with a respective flat wall portion of the second extension arm exposed to the outside of the base block and kept in flush with the bottom wall of the base block for direct contact with an external electronic chip to transfer heat energy from the electronic chip to the heat sink for quick dissipation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventor: Tsung-Hsien Huang
  • Patent number: 7503382
    Abstract: There is provided a heat exchanger including: a heat exchange section in which a plurality of flat tubes are arranged substantially in parallel in a minor axis direction at first intervals and in which fins are disposed between the flat tubes; and a header to which at least some flat tubes out of the plurality of flat tubes are connected, in a state where the at least some flat tubes are bent in the minor axis direction outside the heat exchange section and end parts of the at least some flat tubes are arranged substantially in parallel at second intervals that are narrower than in the heat exchange section, so that the minor axis direction and a central axis direction of the header are the same direction. With this heat exchanger, it is possible to distribute fluid to the individual flat tubes with more equal conditions so that the heat exchange efficiency can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: GAC Corporation
    Inventors: Takahide Maezawa, Masanori Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20090025914
    Abstract: Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems and multi-slab heat exchangers are provided that include fluid connections for transmitting fluid between groups of tubes. The fluid connections may include generally tubular members fluidly connected to manifold sections. The fluid connections also may include partitioned manifolds containing tubes of different heights. Multichannel tubes are also provided that include a bent section configured to locate a flow path near a leading edge of a tube within one section and near a trailing edge of the tube within another section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventors: John T. Knight, William L. Kopko, Stephen B. Pickle, Jose Ruel de la Cruz, Tony Clive Coleman, Mahesh Valiya-Naduvath
  • Patent number: 7448436
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger, a core has a first core portion including first tubes and a second core portion including second tubes. The first tubes defines first passages through which an internal fluid flows and the second tubes defines second passages through which the internal fluid passed through the first passages flows. A flow direction of the internal fluid passed through a first section of the first core portion and a flow direction of the refrigerant passed through a second section of the first core portion are changed with respect to a direction that the tubes are layered, before flowing in the second core portion. Thus, the internal fluid passed through the first section of the first core portion flows into a second section of the second core portion and the internal fluid passed through the second section of the first core portion flows into a first section of the second core portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Katoh, Masaaki Kawakubo, Etsuo Hasegawa, Ken Muto
  • Publication number: 20080223345
    Abstract: The arrangement of a charge air cooler in an intake system of an internal combustion engine has a charge air cooler that on the one hand is supplied with combustion air and on the other hand with a liquid coolant. A coolant/air cooler is provided in which the liquid coolant is cooled by an air stream. The charge air cooler is slantedly arranged in a pipe conduit for the charge air with regard to the end face of a heat exchanger block exposed to the charge air. The end face of the charge air cooler is arranged relative to the cross-section of the pipe conduit at an angle of >45°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: MANN+ HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Ernst Hummel, Bernhard Huurdeman
  • Patent number: 7395853
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly includes a core having first and second header tanks covered by tank caps. A pair of core reinforcing members presenting terminal ends extend between the first and second header tanks. A least one tab and an opening for receiving the tab are used for connecting the core reinforcing members to the tank caps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Paul Kroetsch, Steve C. Brick, Christopher Alfred Fuller, David Matthew Smith, Joel Thomas Hambruch
  • Patent number: 7318470
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for exchanging heat, particularly for use in motor vehicle air-conditioning systems, comprising at least one coolant, at least one coolant inlet (3), and at least one coolant outlet (4), which lead into at least one head pipe (7, 8, 9), whereby the head pipe (7, 8, 9) is divided into at least one inlet section (41?) and into at least one outlet section (42?) by at least one separating element (49). The device for exchanging heat comprises at least one flow-through element (19), which has at least two flow paths situated at least partially parallel to one another, and at least one cross-distributor (10?, 10?, 11?, 11?, 12) via which the flow paths of the flow-through element (19) are fluid-connected so that the inlet section is fluid-connected to the outlet section of the head pipe (7, 8, 9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Demuth, Martin Kotsch, Michael Kranich, Christoph Walter, Karl-Heinz Staffa
  • Patent number: 7159645
    Abstract: A cooling assembly for removing heat form an enclosed environment containing a gimbal device. The assembly comprises an exhaust bellows equipped with a device to draw heated air from the heat source to the outer environment an inlet bellows through which cool, outside air enters to displace the heated air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: George Go, James R. Myers
  • Patent number: 7156165
    Abstract: In tubular portion of a tank, slits are formed in each side face of chambers or across all side faces of the chambers. For partition plates that are to be inserted from the slits, groove portions in which the partition plates are fitted are formed by cutting portions to which the partition plates butt. The slits are formed in the chambers at positions relatively shifted from each other in a direction in which tubes are layered. This structure guarantees that, in the tank for a heat exchanger, bypass leakage of a heat exchange medium between sub-chambers is prevented from occurring when the partition plates are inserted in the tank from the slits provided on the tank side faces. Further, the tank can maintain required strength even if the slits are formed in it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Zexel Valeo Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Ohata, Muneo Sakurada, Yoshihisa Eto, Naoto Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 7069980
    Abstract: A serpentine, multiple pass heat exchanger includes at least one flattened, multiple port tube in serpentine configuration with a plurality of general parallel runs defining at least three hydraulically separate flow paths fins. Fins extend between and are in thermal conducting relation with adjacent ones of the runs and an inlet manifold is located on one end of the tubes with an outlet manifold located on the other. A baffle is located in the outlet manifold and the inlet manifold includes a partition which extends both longitudinally and transversely within the inlet manifold to hydraulically separate one flow path from the inlet port while connecting other flow paths to each other to provide for multiple passes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Karl Hofbauer
  • Patent number: 7028764
    Abstract: An evaporator for disposition along an air flow for cooling the air. The evaporator comprises a continuous serpentine tube having an inlet and an outlet and a plurality of inner fins attached to the serpentine tube. The serpentine tube including at least one column of tube runs. The tube runs are grouped into tube run sets. Each tube run set is defined by at least one reverse bend and the tube runs extending from the ends of the at least one reverse bend. The centerline of each tube run set is not parallel to the centerline of an adjacent tube run set. Each inner fin extends between at least two tube runs of a tube run set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: TI Group Automotives Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Scot Reagen
  • Patent number: 7024573
    Abstract: A device and a system for cooling heat generating electronics is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention is a system for cooling at least one computer component. The system has a plurality of cold plates which are adapted to transfer heat from a plurality of computer components to a cooling fluid. A supply line supplies the cooling fluid to and from these cold plates. The system also has a housing with one or more racks to support the computer component(s). The racks may also support the cold plates so that the cold plates are in thermal communication with at least one computer component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chandrakant D. Patel, Cullen E. Bash
  • Patent number: 6988532
    Abstract: An angle member 9 is fixed to an insert 5 in a state in which a mounting portion 9a of the angle member 9 is fitted in a groove portion 5a depressed towards a core portion 4 side, whereby there is no case where an impact force applied to the angle member 9 and a connecting bar is transmitted directly to tubes 2, so that a possibility that a damage such as a crack is generated in the tubes 2 can be reduced. Consequently, the large vibration of a heat exchanging unit 7 can be suppressed while preventing the direct transmission of the impact force applied to the angle member 9 to the tubes 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hamada
  • Patent number: 6964296
    Abstract: Heat exchange inefficiencies found in round tube plate fin heat exchangers are eliminated in an aluminum heat exchanger that includes first and second headers (20), (22) and at least one flattened tube (24), (70) extending between the headers (20), (22). A plurality of generally parallel tube runs are defined and each has opposite edges. A plurality of plate fins (26), (50) are arranged in a stack and each has a plurality of open ended slots (34), one for each run of the tubes (24), (70). Each of the tube runs (24), (70) is nested within corresponding slots (26) and the fins (26), (50) with one of the edges (40) of the tube runs extending outwardly of the corresponding fin (34). The assembly is brazed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Stephen Memory, Gregory Hughes, Winston Zhang, C. James Rogers, Craig Grohman, Edward Robinson, Richard Mielke, Jonathan P. Wattelet, Lawrence Gabbey, Richard J. Trapp
  • Patent number: 6945322
    Abstract: Metal side plates having projections are attached to fins at the ends of heat exchanger units, to thereby carry out heat exchange between cooling air flowing through spaces between the heat exchanger units, and the side plates. In comparison with a conventional radiator having no side plate, a heat exchanging area (heat radiating area) for the cooling air flowing through the spaces can be increased and, thus, a heat exchangeability (heat radiation capacity) can be enhanced in the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6935417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a solution heat exchanger used for performing heat exchange between a dilute solution and a concentrated solution in a solution passage of an absorption refrigerating machine. The solution heat exchanger (H) comprises a plate type heat exchanger, and a communication portion (R) communicating between a dilute solution passage and a concentrated solution passage for introducing a portion of a dilute solution into a concentrated solution is provided in the solution heat exchanger (H).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Inoue, Toshio Matsubara, Shouji Tanaka, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Hiroki Nakamura, Tomoyuki Uchimura
  • Patent number: 6899167
    Abstract: A heat-exchange module has a main exchanger and at least one secondary exchanger, each having a body with fluid-circulation tubes, and cooling fins, the secondary exchanger being fixed onto the main exchanger. The module includes a set of fins common to the main exchanger and to at least one secondary exchanger, these fins being mounted on the tubes of the main exchanger and projecting from this exchanger, the projecting parts of the fins including cut-outs for accommodating the tubes of the secondary exchanger. Fastenings secure the secondary exchanger in the position in which its tubes are engaged in the cut-outs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Valeo Thermique Moteur
    Inventors: Carlos Martins, Gérard Gille, Stéphane Avequin, Michel Potier
  • Patent number: 6874570
    Abstract: An integrated heat exchanger is constituted by different kinds of heat exchangers such as a radiator for use in engine-cooling systems and a condenser for use in air-conditioning systems which is low in manufacturing cost, small in thickness, easy in maintenance and/or replacement and small in air pressure loss. The heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger (2) and a second heat exchanger (3). A fitting dented portion (6) is provided at one of a bottom surface of the first heat exchanger (2) and an upper surface of the second heat exchanger (3), and a fitting protruded portion (5) is provided at the other thereof, and wherein the fitting protruded portion (5) is fitted in the fitting dented portion (6), whereby the first heat exchanger (2) is integrally conected to the upper surface of the second heat exchanger (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventor: Hirofumi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 6810949
    Abstract: A multiblock heat-transfer system including a first heat-transfer unit and at least a second heat transfer unit mounted onto the first heat-transfer unit. The first heat transfer unit contains a first heat-transfer tubular block with at least a first collecting chamber at the side. The second heat-transfer unit contains a second heat-transfer tubular block with at least a second collecting chamber at the side. The first and second collecting chamber each consist of their own collecting pipe, and both collecting pipes are inserted into each other at their front faces and are connected in a fluid-tight manner. In the pipe connection area, the external diameter of one of the collecting pipes approximately matches the internal diameter of the other collecting pipe, and a transverse partition is provided for separating the two collecting chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: BEHR GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Staffa, Hans-Joachim Krauss, Hagen Mittelstrass, Christoph Walter, Bernd Dienhart, Jochen Schumm
  • Patent number: 6808015
    Abstract: A boiling cooler has a heat exchange part in which refrigerant vapor performs heat exchange with cooling water. The refrigerant vapor is produced from liquid refrigerant that is boiled and gasified by heat transferred from a heating element. In this boiling cooler, the refrigerant vapor can be cooled by cooling water having a thermal conductivity larger than that of air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Osakabe
  • Publication number: 20040206490
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger, a core has a first core portion including first tubes and a second core portion including second tubes. The first tubes defines first passages through which an internal fluid flows and the second tubes defines second passages through which the internal fluid passed through the first passages flows. A flow direction of the internal fluid passed through a first section of the first core portion and a flow direction of the refrigerant passed through a second section of the first core portion are changed with respect to a direction that the tubes are layered, before flowing in the second core portion. Thus, the internal fluid passed through the first section of the first core portion flows into a second section of the second core portion and the internal fluid passed through the second section of the first core portion flows into a first section of the second core portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshiki Katoh, Masaaki Kawakubo, Etsuo Hasegawa, Ken Muto
  • Publication number: 20040194933
    Abstract: Metal side plates having projections are attached to fins at the ends of heat exchanger units, to thereby carry out heat exchange between cooling air flowing through spaces between the heat exchanger units, and the side plates. In comparison with a conventional radiator having no side plate, a heat exchanging area (heat radiating area) for the cooling air flowing through the spaces can be increased and, thus, a heat exchangeability (heat radiation capacity) can be enhanced in the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Toru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6761212
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a thermosyphon heat exchanger. The thermosyphon system eliminates the need for costly and inefficient moving parts in the cooling system. The system also minimizes failures rendering the system inoperable by eliminating mechanical components subject to breakdowns that would render the system inoperable. The design of the heat exchanger coils provides for increased efficiency, reduced cost, and simplified construction and maintenance. The system further reduces the energy consumption required for cooling operation while still providing excellent cooling performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Liebert Corporation
    Inventor: Frank E. DiPaolo
  • Patent number: 6749007
    Abstract: A compact cooling system including a radial fan directing air flow outwardly and a plurality of heat exchangers disposed around the radial fan. Each heat exchanger has a plurality of tubes extending between an inlet header and an outlet header, with the headers extending generally in the same direction as the fan axis. A system inlet is connected to the inlet headers and a system outlet is connected to the outlet headers, whereby the length of the connection between each heat exchanger and the system outlet and system inlet is generally the same for each heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Michael Ehlers, Wolfgang Knecht, Daniela Fischer, Roland Strähle, Jörg Soldner, Werner Zobel
  • Patent number: 6745827
    Abstract: A heat exchanger uses a refrigerant acting under a high pressure, such as carbon dioxide, as a refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Jun-Kang Lee, Kil-Sang Jang, In-Cheol Han, Chang-Ho Park, Yong-Gwi Ahn, Hwang-Jae Ahn