Side-by-side Tubes Traversing Fin Means Patents (Class 165/151)
  • Patent number: 10254053
    Abstract: A heat transfer fin (31) made of stainless steel-based metal for a heat exchanger, has a plurality of upper stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (611), a plurality of lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes formed (612), upper end cut portions (651) formed between the adjacent upper stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (611), and lower end cut portions (652) formed between the adjacent lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (612), wherein the upper end cut portions (651) are formed so as to extend from a fin upper end portion (311) beyond lower ends of the upper stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (611) to positions in the vicinity of upper ends of the lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (612), and the lower end cut portions (652) are formed so as to extend from a fin lower end portion (312) to positions above the lower ends of the lower stage heat-transfer-tube insertion holes (612).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Rinnai Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Okamoto, Akifumi Nishino
  • Patent number: 10215502
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a block for separately conducting first and second fluids, and a box. The block may have flat tubes through which the first fluid is flowable and each of which may have a narrow tube side and a wide tube side. The box may have a base, the flat tubes being guided into the base via corresponding through-openings in the base. Each through-opening may have at least one raised edge, with at least one narrow edge side and at least one wide edge side, surrounding the corresponding flat tube. The wide edge side may be higher than the narrow edge side. The two may transition into one another via an inclination with a recess that may have a height lower than that of the narrow edge side. A contact surface edge may have a height lower at the recess than at the narrow edge side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Kaiser, Boris Kerler, Alexander Meiser, Wael Nassar, Martin Paarmann
  • Patent number: 10209012
    Abstract: The present application provides a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchanger may include a number of fin plates and a number of tubes extending though the fin plates with the first fluid therein. The fin plates may include a number of louvers extending between the tubes such that the second fluid flows through the louvers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: LGL France
    Inventors: Pierre Berthelot, Remy Borg, Alain Compingt, Kapil Sahu, Patrick Taurelle
  • Patent number: 10202880
    Abstract: An exhaust heat exchanger has a fin disposed in an exhaust passage in which exhaust air flows in a flow direction and having plate portions. The plate portions respectively have a protruding portion that protrudes from the plate portions. When a direction perpendicular to both the flow direction and a direction perpendicular to the flow direction is defined as a fin height direction, (i) a protruding amount of the protruding portion in a second site is larger than that in a first site, to which the second site is located on a downstream side of the first site in the flow direction, and (ii) a protruding amount of the protruding portion in a third site is larger than that in a fourth site, to which the fourth site is located away from a center portion of the protruding portion than the third site in the fin height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuroyanagi, Ryoichi Sanada, Yasutoshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10145624
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a wavy fin, a heat exchanger having the same, an apparatus for manufacturing the same, a method of manufacturing the same, and a computer-readable recording medium storing the method. The wavy fin is configured such that top and bottom parts are alternately formed in a width direction while being connected by side parts, and the top, bottom, and side parts extend in a longitudinal direction so as to form a wave such that ridges and valleys are alternately repeated, and includes a front part in front of each ridge or valley of the wave in the longitudinal direction, and a rear part beyond the ridge or valley of the wave in the longitudinal direction. The front and rear parts are offset from each other in the width direction so as to be misaligned at the ridge or valley of the wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventors: Gwang Hoon Rhee, Gun Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 10126030
    Abstract: A heat exchanger having a plurality of first tubes and second tubes through which a refrigerant passes and which are lengthily formed up and down, each of the first and second tubes being spaced from each other and air flowing between the tubes; and a fin in contact with the first and second tubes, wherein the second tubes are spaced from each other and located at a slipstream of the first tubes in an air-flow direction, a first louver group having a plurality of louvers located between the first tubes and spaced from each other in the air-flow direction and a second louver group having a plurality of louvers located between the second tubes and spaced from each other in the air-flow direction are formed in the fin, wherein some of the louvers of the second louver group are longer toward the slipstream of the air-flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., IUCF-HYU(INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Seh Yeon Kim, Jin Sung Park, Kwan Soo Lee
  • Patent number: 10107506
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed which may include (1) providing a preselected and/or non-uniform airflow distribution output from a heat exchanger, (2) selectively directing air through a relatively lower resistance flowpath to manage an airflow characteristic and/or distribution downstream of the heat exchanger, (3) providing an HVAC system comprising a heat exchanger comprising a fin arrangement configured to cause relatively more air to contact a selected component that lies either upstream or downstream relative to the heat exchanger, and (4) receiving a relatively uniform airflow into a heat exchanger and outputting an airflow comprising a localized increased airflow rate. A heat exchanger comprising differentiated resistance flowpaths may selectively affect a direction and/or localized flow rate or distribution of an airflow exiting the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Neal Kraft, Anosh Porus Wadia, Delbert Steven Christopher, Benjamin Farlen Hudgens
  • Patent number: 10107574
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a fin, the fin including a metal base and a porous anodized layer formed on the metal base. A surface of the porous anodized layer has a submicron-order uneven structure, the uneven structure including a plurality of recessed portions whose two-dimensional size viewed in a normal direction of the surface is more than 100 nm and less than 500 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miho Yamada, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takahiro Nakahara, Kouji Kusumoto
  • Patent number: 10072898
    Abstract: A fin satisfies 0°<?2<tan?1[(L±?)/{(S1?D1)/2?L/tan?1}], where S1 is a distance between an upstream end and a downstream end of a first inclined portion, D1 is a distance between an upstream end and a downstream end of a flat portion, ?1 is an angle between a reference plane and the first inclined portion in the flow direction, ?2 is an angle between the reference plane and the second inclined portion in the flow direction, ? is a distance between the reference plane and the flat portion, and L is a distance between the reference planes of the fins adjacent to each other. ?2 gradually decreases as a measurement direction of the angle is shifted from the row direction to the air flow direction and is minimum when the measurement direction is orientated in the air flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Honma, Yoshikimi Tatsumu, Osamu Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10048020
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, turbulizer or heat transfer surface, and a method of making same wherein the turbulizer is a corrugated member having parallel, spaced-apart ridges and planar fins extending therebetween. The planar fins have spaced-apart apertures with opposed peripheral edge portions including transversely extending flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Sperandei, Bruce Evans, Allan K. So, James Scott Cotton
  • Patent number: 10041739
    Abstract: Plate-shaped fins of a heat exchanger each include, at circumferential portions thereof defining a notch in which a heat transfer tube having a flattened shape is disposed, fin collars formed by being raised from the circumferential portions. Each of the fin collars includes, in a position that faces a long axis side surface of the heat transfer tube, at least one reflare section bent in a direction opposite to the side surface. At least one of the reflare sections defining fin pitches between the adjoining plate-shaped fins is formed so that a reflare tip portion, which is a tip portion of the reflare section, is drawn apart from a contact side surface of the plate-shaped fin with which the reflare section comes into contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Nakamura, Akira Ishibashi, Shinya Higashiiue, Daisuke Ito, Shigeyoshi Matsui, Yuki Ugajin, Takashi Okazaki, Atsushi Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9952002
    Abstract: A heat transfer fin (3) comprises a plate-like base section (4), a cylindrical collar section (5), a recessed section (7) which has a sloped surface (7a), and a flare section (6) which, when combined with another heat transfer fin (3), is in surface contact with the sloped surface (7a) of the another heat transfer fin (3). The sloped surface (7a) of the recessed section (7) and the root of the collar section (5) are connected, the connection portion where the sloped surface (7a) of the recessed section (7) and the collar section (5) are connected is bent at an acute angle, and the root of the collar section (5) reaches a position beyond a reference plane (S) which is in contact with a surface (4a) of the base section (4), the surface (4a) being located on the side opposite the flare section (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanobu Wada, Masaaki Nagai, Tetsuya Masuda
  • Patent number: 9952003
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly, comprising: heat exchanger pipework which comprises a plurality of elongate tube elements which extend in spaced relation and a plurality of pipe end couplings which fluidly connect open ends of respective tube elements, wherein the pipe end couplings each comprise a main body part to which the open ends of the respective tube elements are fixed, and an enclosure part which is fixed to the main body part and provides a closed fluid connection between the open ends of the respective tube elements; and a plurality of fins which extend in spaced relation and optionally substantially orthogonally to the tube elements, wherein the fins each comprise a sheet element, optionally a single, continuous sheet element, which includes a plurality of apertures through which extend respective ones of the tube elements, and a plurality of fin coupling elements which are located within respective ones of the fin apertures to interface the tube elements to the sheet elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Clean Thermodynamic Energy Conversion Ltd
    Inventors: Michael Alan Burns, Paul Andrew Burns
  • Patent number: 9945619
    Abstract: Wave fins which are disposed inside a heat exchanger housing of a heat exchanger in order to cause a turbulent flow of fluid through direct contact with the fluid. The wave fins include a plurality of hills, a plurality of valleys and a plurality of sidewalls. The hills and valleys are connected to each other via the plurality of sidewalls. The sidewalls partition fluid passages between the hills and the valleys through which fluid passes. The hills, the valleys and the sidewalls form main waveforms that extend in a longitudinal direction so as to be waved in a first radius of curvature. One or more bent portions are formed on intermediate portions of the main waveforms, the bent portions being connected to remaining portions of the main waveforms so as to be bent at a second radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KORENS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Kuk Cho
  • Patent number: 9939209
    Abstract: A gas cooler (10) which is provided with a heat exchanger (6), cools a gas to be cooled, which is introduced from the outside, by performing heat exchange between the gas to be cooled and the heat exchanger, and discharges the cooled gas to the outside. The heat exchanger includes: a plurality of heat transfer fins (8) which are placed side by side via a prescribed gap therebetween, the gas to be cooled flowing through the gaps; and heat transfer tubes (7) which pierce through the plurality of heat transfer fins and are provided in a plurality of rows along the direction in which the gas to be cooled flows. The outside diameter do of the heat transfer tubes is 20 to 30 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Yokoo, Shigenari Horie, Masashi Yoshikawa, Tomoaki Takeda, Koichi Mizushita, Kazunari Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9927153
    Abstract: A main core portion (6) performing heat exchange between air and a refrigerant, a receiver tank (8) into which the refrigerant having flowed through the main core portion flows, a sub-cool core portion (10) for sub-cooling a liquid refrigerant having flowed through the receiver tank by heat exchange with air, a first flow path (36b, 68, 78) through which a refrigerant flows in order of the main core portion, the receiver tank, and the sub-cool core portion, a second flow path (36a, 36c, 68, 72) through which the refrigerant flows in order of the main core portion and the sub-cool core portion by bypassing the receiver tank, and flow-path switching means (82) for switching between the first flow path and the second flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuichi Matsumoto, Shinji Kouno
  • Patent number: 9920677
    Abstract: A method for producing a delivery module having an electric PTC heater, for installation into a tank for storing a liquid additive, includes: a) fixing a maximum electrical power that is made available to the delivery module; b) determining a thermal conductivity of the delivery module from a location of the electric PTC heater into the tank; c) calculating a switching temperature of the PTC heater based on the maximum electrical power and the thermal conductivity; and d) mounting a PTC material with a corresponding switching temperature for the PTC heater at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Wilfried Müller, Egbert Zienicke
  • Patent number: 9915481
    Abstract: A fin for a heat exchanger is joined to an outer surface of a tube, and facilitates a heat exchange between the tube and an air flowing around the tube. A sectional surface of the fin perpendicular to a flowing direction of an air has a corrugated shape that includes multiple flat portions substantially parallel to a flowing direction of the air, and a ridge portion connecting the adjacent flat portions. Multiple louvers cut in and raised from each of the flat portions at a predetermined cut-and-raised angle are disposed on the flat portion along a flowing direction of the air. A thickness of each flat portion is defined as t, a louver pitch of the louvers is defined as PL, and the thickness of each flat portion and the louver pitch satisfy a relationship of 0.035?t/PL?0.29.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsugu Nakamura, Masahiro Shimoya, Tadashi Nakabou
  • Patent number: 9909817
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling element (11) comprising: a fluid channel (1) providing a pulsating heat pipe, a first evaporator (14) for receiving heat from electric components (15) and for passing the heat into fluid in the fluid channel (1), and a first condenser (18) for receiving fluid from the first evaporator (14) via the fluid channel (1) and for cooling fluid in the fluid channel. In order to obtain an even temperature distribution at the first evaporator (14) an adiabatic zone where the temperature of the fluid in the fluid channel (1) remains unchanged or a cooling zone, with a second condenser (20) cooling fluid in the fluid channel (1), separates the first evaporator (14) from the loops (6) in the second end (12) of the fluid channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: ABB Technology Oy
    Inventors: Francesco Agostini, Daniele Torresin, Mathieu Habert, Bruno Agostini
  • Patent number: 9891008
    Abstract: Each fin 30 is designed to have continuous lines of wave crests 34 and continuous lines of wave troughs 36 arranged at a preset angle in a specific angle range of 10 degrees to 60 degrees relative to the main stream of the air flow and symmetrically folded back about folding lines of a preset folding interval W along the main stream of the air flow. A ratio (a/p) of an amplitude ‘a’ of a waveform including one wave crest 34 and one adjacent wave trough 36 to a fin pitch ‘p’ satisfies a relation of 1.3×Re?0.5<a/p<0.2. A ratio (W/z) of the folding interval W to a wavelength ‘z’ of the waveform satisfies a relation of 0.25<W/z<2.0. A ratio (r/z) of a radius of curvature ‘r’ at a top of the wave crest 34 or at a bottom of the wave trough 36 to the wavelength ‘z’ of the waveform satisfies a relation of 0.25<r/z.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Naoki Shikazono, Kentaro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9823028
    Abstract: A water cooling device with detachably assembled modularized units includes at least one modularized pump unit and at least one modularized heat exchange unit. Different number of the modularized heat exchange unit can be detachably assembled to the modularized pump unit according to the number of heat sources to be cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rong-Xian Zhang, Jian-Wu Yin
  • Patent number: 9791220
    Abstract: The distribution plate has a transverse dimension and a longitudinal dimension and includes a peripheral seat for receiving sealing means arranged around the periphery of the distribution plate, a plurality of through-holes for heat exchange pipes, at least one of the holes extending only partially along the transverse dimension of the plate, and at least one local protuberance for positioning the sealing means, delimiting a portion of the seat for receiving the sealing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Christian Riondet, Jean-Marc Lesueur
  • Patent number: 9724746
    Abstract: A recuperator disposed in the exhaust duct of a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of recuperator plates arranged in a spaced-apart relationship to define therebetween a plurality of interstices and fluid channels, the plurality of interstices adapted to direct therethrough at least one first stream received at a leading plate edge of the recuperator plates and the plurality of fluid channels adapted to direct therethrough at least one second stream to effect heat exchange between the at least one first stream and the at least one second stream. Each recuperator plate includes, formed at the leading plate edge thereof, a first concavity extending along the leading edge in a direction substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the plate. The first concavity extends transversely to a direction of the at least one first stream flowing over each recuperator plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Andreas Eleftheriou, Daniel Alecu, David Menheere
  • Patent number: 9709344
    Abstract: A coolant cooler has a cooling block formed by tubes arranged parallel to one another. The tubes form multiple first flow ducts through which a first fluid can flow. In regions between the tubes multiple second flow ducts are formed through which a second fluid can flow. The coolant cooler includes a first collecting box on which a first fluid inlet is arranged and a second collecting box on which a first fluid outlet is arranged. The first flow ducts are in fluid communication with a first cooling circuit via the first fluid inlet, the first fluid outlet, and the collecting boxes. The first or second collecting box has a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet such that the second fluid inlet, the respective collecting box, and the second fluid outlet are in fluid communication with a second cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Brümmer, Gunther Hentschel
  • Patent number: 9709343
    Abstract: A coolant cooler has a cooling block formed by tubes arranged parallel to one another. The tubes form multiple first flow ducts through which a first fluid can flow. In regions between the tubes multiple second flow ducts are formed through which a second fluid can flow. The coolant cooler includes a first collecting box on which a first fluid inlet is arranged and a second collecting box on which a first fluid outlet is arranged. The first flow ducts are in fluid communication with a first cooling circuit via the first fluid inlet, the first fluid outlet, and the collecting boxes. The first or second collecting box has a second fluid inlet and a second fluid outlet such that the second fluid inlet, the respective collecting box, and the second fluid outlet are in fluid communication with a second cooling circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Richard Brümmer, Gunther Hentschel
  • Patent number: 9644896
    Abstract: A fin-and-tube heat exchanger comprises: fins (31) which each have flat sections (35), first sloped sections (36), and second sloped sections (38); and heat transfer pipes (21). If a flat plane which is in contact, from the side opposite the crest of a ridge (34), with the upstream end and downstream end of the first sloped sections (36) in the air flow direction is a reference flat plane (H1), the angle between the reference flat plane (H1) and each of the second sloped sections (38) measured in a region upstream of a through-hole in the air flow direction is ?2, then the range of ?2 is determined by the relationship 0°<?2<tan?1[(L±?)/{(S1?D1)/2?L/tan ?1}].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Nagai, Masanobu Wada
  • Patent number: 9631539
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating superheated vapor using waste heat recovery. A housing has an inlet tank and an outlet tank at both ends. Exhaust gas is introduced through the inlet tank, and is discharged through the outlet tank. A plurality of wave fin structures are disposed inside the housing so as to be spaced apart from each other at predetermined distances in a top-bottom direction, and include a plurality of peaks and a plurality of valleys which are connected in a transverse direction so as to form wave-like structures in a direction in which the exhaust gas flows. A plurality of working fluid tubes alternate with the plurality of wave fin structures. An inlet pipe through which working fluid is introduced and an outlet pipe through which the working fluid is discharged are disposed on a side surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: KORENS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Kuk Cho, Tae Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 9605908
    Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a refrigerant tube through which a refrigerant flows and a fin having at least two tube through holes in which the refrigerant tube is inserted. The fin includes a fin body, a plurality of flow guide protruding from one surface of the fin body, the plurality of flow guides being spaced apart from each other, and a plane part partitioning one flow guide and the other flow guide of the plurality of flow guides, the plane part having a flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Juhyok Kim, Hongseong Kim, Hanchoon Lee, Sangyeul Lee
  • Patent number: 9599413
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, in particular an intercooler, is provided that includes at least one collector box that has a base. At least one tube engages into a passage in an approximately perpendicular manner with respect to the base, the passage protruding out of the base and surrounding a tube end, and the passage has a rectangular cross-section that is adapted to the outer circumference of the tube. The aim of the invention is to further extend the service life of the heat exchanger with a further reduction of the wall thickness of the collector box base as well as of the tube. This is achieved in that a wall thickness of the passage is thinned at least in a corner region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Claus Augenstein, Harald Bronner, Stephan Posset, Silvia-Helena Klipphahn, Eduard Tyulyukovskiy
  • Patent number: 9599410
    Abstract: A surface cooler includes a plate-like layer and a plurality of spaced-apart fins extending substantially perpendicular from an uppermost layer of the plate-like layer. The plurality of fins defining a plurality of air flow paths. The plurality of spaced-apart fins are configured to augment heat transfer of the surface cooler by increasing the turbulence levels of a fluid flowing through the airflow paths by promoting increased mixing with a resulting increase in the heat transfer coefficient of the surface cooler. A method of forming the surface cooler and an engine including the surface cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Joseph Antel, Jr., Carlos Enrique Diaz, Jorge Carretero Benignos
  • Patent number: 9596789
    Abstract: Computer systems having heat exchangers for cooling computer components are disclosed herein. The computer systems include a computer cabinet having an air inlet, an air outlet spaced apart from the air inlet, and a plurality of computer module compartments positioned between the air inlet and the air outlet. The air inlet, the air outlet, and the computer module compartments define an air flow path through the computer cabinet. The computer systems also include a heat exchanger positioned between two adjacent computer module compartments. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange elements canted relative to the air flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Cray Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander I. Yatskov
  • Patent number: 9593886
    Abstract: Provided are a heat exchanger capable of providing sufficient heat exchange capability even with heat transfer tubes having a reduced outer diameter, and a heat pump device using the same. The heat transfer tubes has an outer diameter D in a range of 5 mm?D?6 mm, has a thickness t in a range of 0.05×D?t?0.09×D, are disposed at a vertical pitch L1 in a range of 3×D?L1?4.2×D, and are disposed at a longitudinal pitch L2 in a range of 2.6×D?L2?3.64×D. A sufficiently increased heat exchange rate per unit weight is obtainable with the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Katou, Naotaka Iwasawa, Hirotaka Kado
  • Patent number: 9551539
    Abstract: A heat exchanger which may be continuously mass-produced by press-fitting heat exchange fins into refrigerant tubes and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method includes processing a metal sheet into a plurality of rows of heat exchange fins, transferring the plurality of rows of heat exchange fins through a transfer apparatus, dividing the plurality of rows of heat exchange fins into heat exchange fins in odd-numbered rows and heat exchange fins in even-numbered rows and integrating the heat exchange fins in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows through integration apparatuses, vertically standing and aligning the heat exchange fins in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows, separating the heat exchange fins in odd-numbered rows and even-numbered rows into a number of heat exchange fins, which may be simultaneously press-fitted into refrigerant tubes, through separation apparatuses, and press-fitting the separated heat exchange fins into the refrigerant tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doo Hee Lee, Young Gil Yeo, Yong Hwa Choi, Young Min Kim, Gaku Hayase
  • Patent number: 9528781
    Abstract: An anti-microbial heat transfer apparatus comprises a hybrid coil with multiple rows of fins and tubes. The fins and tubes have an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion comprises fins that include copper and has a height that is different than the height of the second portion. A chilled medium inside the tubes makes the surface of the fins and tubes colder than the temperature of the dew point of the surrounding air such that a condensate is formed on the surface of the fins. Gravity causes the condensate to drip copper ions from the upper portion to the lower portion of the coil resulting in the inhibition of microbial growth on the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Ley
  • Patent number: 9528779
    Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a refrigerant tube through which a refrigerant flows and a fin having at least two tube through holes in which the refrigerant tube is inserted. The fin includes a fin body, a plurality of louvers protruding from a surface of the fin body, a plane part defined between the plurality of louvers, the plane part having a flat surface, and a guide part disposed on at least one side of the plane part to guide a flow of air or discharge of defrosting water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangyeul Lee, Hongseong Kim, Juhyok Kim, Hanchoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9441890
    Abstract: A fin for a heat exchanger is provided that may include a fin body having a first heat exchange area, and a second heat exchange area, which is disposed to be adjacent to the first heat exchange area; a fin collar that passes through the fin body and protrudes from the fin body; and a plurality of fin portions formed at or on the fin body and having different shapes from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Donghwi Kim, Sangyeul Lee, Kakjoong Kim, Yongcheol Sa, Juhyok Kim
  • Patent number: 9429373
    Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger, which includes a plurality of tubes and a plurality of fins. The tubes accommodate respective refrigerant passages through which refrigerant flows. The fins having a plate shape are spaced apart from each other, and include a plurality of through holes through which the tubes pass, respectively. The fin is provided with a condensate water guide part guiding discharge of condensate water generated during heat exchange between air and the refrigerant flowing through the tube. Accordingly, adhesion of the tube and the fin is facilitated, the distance between neighboring fins is maintained, and condensate water is efficiently discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taegyun Park, Naehyun Park
  • Patent number: 9395121
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat exchanger for transferring heat between a first working fluid and a second working fluid. The heat exchanger can include a corrugated fin positionable along a flow path of the first working fluid between adjacent tube walls and being operable to increase heat transfer between the first working fluid and the second working fluid. The fin can include a leg defined between adjacent folds. The heat exchanger can also include a plurality of convolutions extending inwardly from a distal end of the leg and terminating at different distances from the end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Steven P. Meshenky, Charles M. Rastall
  • Patent number: 9360258
    Abstract: An air cooled, finned heat exchanger tube includes a metallic tube through which fluid to be cooled is flowable. The tube has an outer surface on which axially spaced axial indentations are formed over its circumference, and a plurality of axially spaced fins each of which has a main element formed with heat transfer promoting patterns and a base angled with respect to said main element. The base is frictionally and irremovably secured within a corresponding indentation so that said tube outer surface is completely covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Ormat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lucien Y. Bronicki, Uriyel Fisher
  • Patent number: 9310135
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided by assembling a plurality of individual plates having opposed faces, wherein flow channels are machined through those opposed faces, and the plates are interconnected with intervening shim plates. End plates are connected to an assembly of such plates and intermediate plates, to form a preform, which is then machined to a desired cross section. The resulting structure has a plurality of passages therethrough in one direction, and a second plurality of passages therethrough in a second direction, the passages fluidly isolated from one another. The resulting structure is configurable to a specific geometry of a flow passage, and enables heat exchange between fluids passing through the different flow channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Cool Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Farber, Lee S. Smith
  • Patent number: 9175893
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body defining a compartment, the compartment having an access opening and a first wall, a door supported by the main body for selectively closing at least part of the access opening, a sub-compartment on the door, the sub-compartment comprising a second wall having an opening, a heat exchanger supported by the first wall and positioned so that when the door is closed the heat exchanger is exposed to an interior of the sub-compartment through the opening, and a refrigeration system having a working medium for cooling the heat exchanger, where the heat exchanger further includes one or more segments of the refrigeration system attached to a heat exchanging plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brent Alden Junge, Stephanos Kyriacou, Kristin Marie Weirich, Umakant Suresh Katu, Alan Joseph Mitchell
  • Patent number: 9163884
    Abstract: A heat dissipating apparatus with a vortex generator includes a heat conducting base, a heat pipe, and a plurality of heat dissipating fins. Each heat dissipating fin has a pair of vortex generators installed with an interval apart and disposed adjacent to a side of the heat pipe, and each vortex generator has two guiding oblique surfaces protruding from a surface of the heat dissipating fin, and the two guiding oblique surfaces protrude in a tapered form. A through hole is formed at a wide position of the tapered form and penetrates through the heat dissipating fin, such that the vortex generators of each heat dissipating fin induce a stack effect at corresponding upper and lower part of the heat dissipating fin to improve the heat dissipating efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ENERMAX TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jer-Sheng Hwang, Sheam-Chyun Lin
  • Patent number: 9081554
    Abstract: In one embodiment a heat exchanger assembly comprises at least one heat pipe and a casing which is to receive a blower, the casing comprising a plurality of heat exchanging plates, wherein at least one of the heat exchanging plates comprises at least one tongue which is to cover a portion of an exterior surface of the at least one heat pipe. Other embodiments may be described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark MacDonald, Yoshifumi Nishi
  • Publication number: 20150143835
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (1) of a heat pump system (2) having a main core part (6), a subcool core part (10), and a receiver tank (8), the main core part (6) and the subcool core part (10) having: a first flow channel comprising a pair of header tanks (12) arranged separated from each other in the vertical direction, a plurality of tubes (14) arranged so as to extend vertically between the header tanks (12), the tubes (14) passing through the pair of header tanks (12), and a fin (16) arranged between adjacent tubes (14), the first flow channel allowing the coolant to pass through in the sequence of the main core part (6), the receiver tank (8), and the subcool core part (10); and a second flow channel for allowing the coolant to pass through the main core part (6) only, in the direction opposite that of the first flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Yuuichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9038406
    Abstract: Dehumidifying cooling apparatus and method are provided for an electronics rack. The apparatus includes an air-to-liquid heat exchanger disposed at an air inlet or outlet side of the rack and positioned for air passing through the electronics rack to pass across the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is in fluid communication with a coolant loop for passing coolant therethrough at a temperature below a dew point temperature of the air passing across the heat exchanger so that air passing across the heat exchanger is dehumidified and cooled. A condensate collector, disposed below the heat exchanger, collects liquid condensate from the dehumidifying of air passing through the electronics rack, wherein the heat exchanger includes a plurality of sloped surfaces configured to facilitate drainage of liquid condensate from the heat exchanger to the condensate collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levi A. Campbell, Richard C. Chu, Michael J. Ellsworth, Jr., Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Robert E. Simons
  • Patent number: 9033029
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided. The heat exchanger may include a plurality of refrigerant tubes extending in a horizontal direction, at least one fin coupled to the plurality of refrigerant tubes, a vertically oriented header coupled to corresponding ends of the plurality of refrigerant tubes, the header distributing refrigerant into the plurality of refrigerant tubes, and a partition device that partitions an inner space of the header, the partition device including at least two through holes that guide refrigerant into the plurality of refrigerant tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taegyun Park, Sehyeon Kim, Seungmo Jung, Eungyul Lee, Sanghoon Yoo, Naehyun Park
  • Publication number: 20150129180
    Abstract: A heat exchanger system includes a fluid distribution element and a 1 pass heat exchanger. The fluid distribution element has a central inlet and fluid-sealed, channel-like fluid guide which branches into a plurality of fluid guidance channels. The 1 pass heat exchanger consists of a plurality of through-flowable tubes disposed in one plane and having planar partial faces, preferably flat tubes, and fins connected on the planar partial faces to the tubes. Each of the through-flowable tubes has a tube inlet and a tube outlet, the tube outlets opening into a fluid collection system. The fluid distribution element having the same number of fluid outlets as the 1 pass heat exchanger has through-flowable tubes and at least one of a direct connection of the fluid distribution element to the 1 pass heat exchanger or an indirect connection of the fluid distribution element to the 1 pass heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der antgewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Strehlow, Birgo Nitsch, Thore Oltersdorf, Markus Werner
  • Publication number: 20150114030
    Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of refrigerant tubes in which a refrigerant flows, a heatsink fin coupled to the plurality of refrigerant tubes to heat-exchange the refrigerant with a fluid, a header disposed on at least one side of the plurality of refrigerant tubes to define a flow space of the refrigerant and a guide device disposed in the header to partition the flow space, the guide device guiding the refrigerant from the header to the refrigerant tubes. The guide device includes a movable cover part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Taegyun Park, Sehyeon Kim, Seungmo Jung, Eungyul Lee, Sanghoon Yoo, Naehyun Park
  • Patent number: 9016355
    Abstract: In a compound type heat exchanger, a first heat exchanger includes a pair of tanks arranged a certain distance apart from each other and a core part having tubes and fins that are alternately piled up between the pair of tanks. One of the pair of tanks is composed of a plurality of divided bodies that are connected along a longitudinal direction of the one of the pair of tanks. One of the plurality of divided bodies is provided with an accommodation portion that projects outwardly to communicate with the one of the plurality of divided bodies. A second heat exchanger is arranged in the accommodation portion through an opening portion of the accommodation portion, which is provided with an input port. Heat is exchanged between an intake air of the first heat exchanger that flows in the accommodation portion and a coolant of the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation
    Inventor: Tadahiro Hirai
  • Publication number: 20150101362
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of plate-shaped fins arranged at intervals such that air flows between adjacent fins, each of the fins having insertion holes and a plurality of flat tubes extending through the fins such that a refrigerant flows through the tubes in a stacking direction of the fins, each flat tube having a cross-section having straight long sides and half-round short sides, each flat tube having long-side outer circumferential surface parts and a short-side outer circumferential surface part in contact with the fin and covered with the brazing filler metal. The fins and the flat tubes are joined with the brazing filler metal covering the outer circumferential surfaces of the flat tubes such that top part of each fin collar of each fin is in contact with the flat tube and base part of the fin collar is spaced apart from the flat tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sangmu Lee, Takuya Matsuda, Akira Ishibashi, Takashi Okazaki