Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular exhaust-gas cooler or charge-air cooler, comprising a plate stack composed of multiple elongate plate pairs, wherein in each case two interconnected plates form a first fluid duct between them, and a second fluid duct is formed between two plate pairs, wherein the plates of a plate pair are of U-shaped form with a bottom and upturned side walls and lie against one another so as to delimit the first flow duct, wherein one of the plates of a plate pair has, on its end side, a tab which serves for beading over around the end side of the other plate, wherein the tab on the bottom of the plate is beaded over, and the beading-over of the tab also continues into the side walls of the plates.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger having heat exchange plates and a base plate that can help to mitigate the thermal stresses encountered by a heat exchanger, particularly, around the peripheral edge portions of the heat exchanger and the base of heat exchanger. This is achieved by providing a channel of coolant fluid near the peripheral edge portions which is in between the peripheral edge portions and the manifold permitting flow of hot fluid. In addition, the base plate of the heat exchanger is protected from the hot fluid flowing through the manifold by providing deflectors that shield the base plate from the hot fluid.

Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided including a first manifold, a second manifold separated from the first manifold, and a plurality of heat exchanger tubes arranged in spaced parallel relationship fluidly coupling the first and second manifolds. A first end of each heat exchange tube extends partially into an inner volume of the first manifold and has an inlet formed therein. A distributor is positioned within the inner volume of the first manifold. At least a portion of the distributor is arranged within the inlet formed in the first end of one or more of the plurality of heat exchange tubes.

Abstract: A heat exchanging board (1) and a board-type heat exchanger provided with the heat exchanging board (1). The heat exchanging board (1) comprises a board main body (11). Multiple recessed portions (12) and multiple raised portions (13) are disposed on the surface of the board main body (11). The multiple recessed portions (12) and the multiple raised portions (13) are disposed in a staggered manner along a first direction (S1) and are disposed in a staggered manner along a second direction (S2) perpendicular to the first direction (S1). Top portions of the multiple raised portions (13) are provided slender forms along the first direction (S1). The heat exchanging board (1) and the board-type heat exchanger provided with the heat exchanging board (1) can ensure good strength of the heat exchanger in the case of ensuring the heat exchanging efficiency, and can reduce manufacturing cost of the heat exchanging board (1).

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a flat tube microchannel. A major surface of the microchannel has a first width at a first and a second opposite end portion to couple each end portion to a corresponding fluid distribution header. A middle portion of the microchannel between the first and second end portions has a second width that is greater than the first width. Fins are attached to the middle portion of the first major surface of the flat tube microchannel.

Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that includes a first tube/fin block, first headers arranged on both sides of the first tube/fin block, which first headers communicate with the tubes of the first tube/fin block, and a second tube/fin block having second headers arranged on both sides of the second tube/fin block, which second headers communicate with the tubes of the second tube/fin block, wherein the first tube/fin block having the corresponding first headers is an air-cooled low-temperature coolant cooler and the second tube/fin block having the corresponding second headers is an air-cooled refrigerant cooler, wherein the headers of the first tube/fin block arranged on a respective side of the tube-fin block and a header of the second tube/fin block are connected to one another.

Abstract: An air to air heat exchanger includes a first and a second cooling air flow passage extending over a core depth of the heat exchanger. A heated air flow passage is arranged between the cooling air flow passages, and extends over a first percentage of the core depth. Thermally conductive separators are arranged between the heated air flow passage and each of the cooling air flow passages. A first structurally reinforced section is provided between the separators, and extends from a cooling air inlet face in the core depth direction over a second percentage of the core depth. A second structurally reinforced section is provided between the separators, and extends from a cooling air outlet face in the core depth direction over a third percentage of the core depth. The sum of the first, second, and third percentages is greater than 100 percent.

Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger, in particular for motor vehicles, is provided that includes a plurality of plate groups in order to form first and second and/or third flow paths, a spatial region for fourth flow paths being formed between adjacent plate groups, the plate groups having at least one plate pair having a first and second plate in order to form the first flow paths and the second flow paths, wherein a third plate can be arranged in interaction with one of the first or one of the second plates in order to form the third flow path.

Abstract: A plate heat exchanger can reduce thermal contact between a second fluid (water and a third fluid (low-temperature, low-pressure two-phase refrigerant) to enhance thermal efficiency. A plate heat exchanger includes a heat transfer plate group that performs heat exchange between a first fluid of high-temperature, high-pressure gas refrigerant and a second fluid of a heating target fluid; and a heat transfer plate group that performs heat exchange between a first fluid of low-temperature, high-pressure liquid refrigerant and a third fluid of low-temperature, low-pressure two-phase liquid refrigerant. The heat transfer plate group forms refrigerant channels including a stack of plates, has a configuration that a flow of the first fluid of high-temperature, high-pressure gas refrigerant and a flow of the second fluid are alternately aligned in the refrigerant channels, and causes the second fluid to flow in the outermost refrigerant channel.

Abstract: A plate heat exchanger includes a casing in which heat transfer plates are arranged, wherein a first distribution tube and a second distribution tube that extend through respective first port openings and second port openings of the heat transfer plates includes outlets and inlets that face each other, a first passage and a second passage extend along the casing and along first sides and second sides of the heat transfer plates and comprise outlets and inlets that face each other.

Abstract: A cold storage heat exchanger includes multiple refrigerant tubes arranged to provide a clearance therebetween, multiple cold storage containers each of which is interposed between adjacent refrigerant tubes, bonded to the adjacent refrigerant tubes and defining a compartment receiving a cold storage material. A surface of each cold storage container has multiple protrusion portions, and each protrusion portion protrudes outward and is in contact with the adjacent refrigerant tubes. The multiple protrusion portions are arranged in a zigzag manner or extend continuously in an air flow direction.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger, when louvers are viewed from an airflow direction, a louver tip end width becomes shorter with increase of a louver height. A fin width of the fin is 14 mm or shorter. Airflow-end louver lengths of an upstream-end first louver, a downstream-end first louver, an upstream-end second louver, and a downstream-end second louver are “?×LP” or longer, where LP is a louver pitch.

Abstract: A connection device for a heat exchanger between a first fluid (L) and a second fluid (G), said device comprising a connector (30) and a lateral end panel (37) of a heat exchange bundle (14) of said exchanger, said lateral panel (37) including at least one connection element (38) comprising transversely aligned inlet/outlet openings (47, 47?), said connection element (38) allowing the first fluid to flow between the bundle and the inlet and outlet openings (34, 36) of the connector (30), aligned longitudinally or at an angle relative to said inlet/outlet openings (47, 47?) of the connection element (38), said connection element (38) and said connector (30) being of substantially the same length.

Abstract: A heat exchanger integrated assembly and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The heat exchanger integrated assembly includes a heat exchanger, a mating portion and an adaptor, wherein the heat exchanger includes a first inlet and a first outlet; the mating portion includes a first side, a second side and a first hole and a second hole passing through the first side and the second side, and the mating portion further includes a first recessed portion formed on the first side and in communication with the first hole; and the adaptor includes a first passage in communication with the first hole and in communication with the first inlet via the first recessed portion, and a second passage in communication with the first outlet via the second hole. The heat exchanger is integrated with other parts and is connected to an expansion valve directly.

Abstract: A connecting member includes a first component and a second component fixed to each other, the first component includes a first mounting wall and a first area formed by denting from the first mounting wall, the second component includes a second mounting wall, a second area and a third area, the second mounting wall and the first mounting wall are hermetically fixed, the second area and the third area are both formed by denting from the second mounting wall, and the second area and the third area are arranged with space and are in communication with the first area; the second component further includes a first slot extending through the second area and a second slot extending through the third area, and the first slot and the second slot are provided for communication of the circulating tubes of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An intercooler that cools intake air supercharged into an engine by a supercharger by exchanging heat with a cooling medium includes a heat exchange portion in which heat is exchanged between the cooling medium flowing inside a channel tube and the supercharged intake air flowing outside the channel tube. The cooling medium includes a first cooling medium and a second cooling medium hotter than the first cooling medium. The channel tube includes a first cooling medium channel where the first cooling medium flows and a second cooling medium channel where the second cooling medium flows. The channel tube includes a first U-turn portion forcing a flow of the first cooling medium flowing the first cooling medium channel to make a U-turn, and a second U-turn portion forcing a flow of the second cooling medium flowing the second cooling medium channel to make a U-turn.

Abstract: A gas/liquid heat exchanger for cooling a hot gas has a plastic housing at least partly surrounding a metal core. The housing has separately formed inlet and outlet segments which may be formed from plastic materials having different heat resistance, and which are joined together along a sealed joint. One or both of the inlet and outlet segments are provided with bypass blocking element to at least partially blocks any gaps between the irregularly shaped sides of the core and the sides of the housing. Where the sides of the core include indentations, the bypass blocking elements may comprise a comb structure having fingers extending into the indentations. The housing is constructed to permit the core to be slidingly received into one or both of the inlet segment and the outlet segment of the housing.

Abstract: A leeward tube row of an evaporator includes first to third tube groups, and a windward tube row thereof includes fourth and fifth tube groups. Within a third section of a leeward upper header portion with which heat exchange tubes of the third tube group communicate, a resistance member for flow division is provided so as to divide the interior of the third section into a first space which the heat exchange tubes face, and a second space which is separated from the first space and into which refrigerant flows. The resistance member for flow division has a plurality of refrigerant passage holes. The leeward upper header portion has a flow cutoff member for preventing flow of refrigerant into the first space of the third section. The third section of the leeward upper header portion communicates with the fourth section of the windward upper header portion via refrigerant communication passages.

Abstract: A plate heat exchanger comprises plural heat exchanger plates and at least one adapter plate, which each extend parallel with a main extension plane. The heat exchanger plates form a plate package with first and second plate interspaces for first and second mediums. Each heat exchanger plate has four port holes extending through the plate package. The heat exchanger plates comprise outermost heat exchanger plates. Two of the plate interspaces form a respective outermost plate interspace at a respective side of the plate package, which are delimited outwardly by a respective one of the outermost heat exchanger plates, and the adapter plate is outside one of the outermost heat exchanger plates. A distance plate between the adapter plate and one of the outermost heat exchanger plates has at least two port holes concentric with each of the respective port holes of the outermost heat exchanger plates and the adapter plate.

Abstract: A device for a heat exchanger has a hollow cylindrical header and a plurality of flat tubes. A wall of the header includes a plurality of through openings. The flat tubes are received in the through openings through the wall into the inner cross-section of the header tube, and are aligned with the width of the flat tubes parallel to the direction of the inner dimension. A width of the flat tubes is greater than an inner dimension of the inner cross-section and is smaller than the outer dimension of the header tube, wherein the through openings are embodied as having grooves that continue in the wall of the header tube into the inner cross-section. The flat tubes, which are guided in the through openings through the wall, are arranged in the grooves.

Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly, by means of which compressed charge air for an internal combustion engine is cooled by way of a liquid, includes a housing with a heat exchanger that has a stack of pairs of plates and fins which are arranged between the pairs, and has two longitudinal sides and two transverse sides. Flow plates are arranged in the plate pairs and, toward the longitudinal sides, expose in each case one edge channel within the plate pairs. An inlet and an outlet are connected to the edge channels, and a liquid flows through the flow plates between the edge channels, the liquid flowing in counterflow with respect to the charge air which flows in on one side of the housing, through the fins, and leaves the housing again on an opposite other side.

Abstract: A motor vehicle air conditioning unit having a housing, a heat exchanger, at least two manifolds and cooling tubes arranged therebetween forming a tube block. The housing has at least one first sealing rib oriented substantially parallel to an extending direction of the at least two manifolds and at least one second sealing rib oriented substantially parallel to an extending direction of the cooling tubes in the tube block, such that the at least one first sealing rib is oriented perpendicular to the at least one second sealing rib.

Abstract: In a refrigerant evaporator, a first refrigerant collector defined in a tank portion of a first evaporation unit is connected to a second refrigerant distributor defined in a tank portion of a second evaporation unit, and a second refrigerant collector defined in the tank portion of the first evaporation unit is connected to a first refrigerant distributor defined in the tank portion of the second evaporation unit. The refrigerant evaporator includes a connection channel to connect a first refrigerant channel that introduces refrigerant from a heat-exchange core portion of the first evaporation unit to a heat-exchange core portion of the second evaporation unit and a second refrigerant channel that introduces refrigerant from a heat-exchange core portion of the second evaporation unit to a heat-exchange core portion of the first evaporation unit.

Abstract: A radiator includes: a tube through which a coolant flows; and a single tank including: a supplying chamber communicating with an end of the tube, for supplying the tube with the coolant; and a collecting chamber communicating with the other end of the tube, partitioned to the supplying chamber, and for collecting the coolant discharged from the tube.

Abstract: There is provided an EGR cooler having a core portion in which a large number of flat tubes through which exhaust gases pass are stacked one on another in an interior of a hollow cylindrical shell to be joined to the shell for heat exchange between the exhaust gases and a cooling fluid which flows around the tubes, a cylindrical inlet header which is joined to an upstream side of the shell in relation to a gas flow at one end thereof, and a cylindrical outlet header which is joined to a downstream side of the core portion in relation to the gas flow at one end thereof, characterized in that the inlet header and the outlet header are joined to an outer surface of the shell, and the tubes are joined to an inner surface of the shell at those joint portions.

Abstract: A plate (30) for a heat exchanger (50) is stackable with another plate (30) of the heat exchanger (50) to form a pair of plates (30). The pair of plates (30) are arranged to permit the circulation of a fluid to be cooled between the pair of plates (30). The plate (30) exhibits an exchange zone (ZE) to encourage the exchange of heat with the fluid. The plate (30) also exhibits a bypass zone (ZBP) capable of allowing the fluid to bypass the exchange zone (ZE). The plate (30) comprises means (36, 37) originating from the plate (30) configured in such a way as to force a circulation of the fluid in the exchange zone (ZE). A core (52) of plates comprising a plurality of the plates (30), as well as a heat exchanger (50) comprising the core (52), are also disclosed.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for use with at least two battery modules, each of the battery modules comprising at least one battery cell housed within a rigid container, the heat exchanger defining an internal fluid passage for a heat exchanger fluid and having at least one compliant region that is configured to be compressed to facilitate thermal contact between the heat exchanger and the two battery modules.

Abstract: A face plumbing adapter having a block portion and a camber portion is provided for a manifold of a heat exchanger assembly. The block portion includes an external planar face, a first mating surface opposite that of the planar face, and an aperture having a B-axis extending through the planar face and first mating surface. The camber portion extends integrally from the block portion in a direction away from the planar face and curving inward toward the B-Axis. The camber portion is biased toward the block portion such that the face plumbing adapter would clinch onto the manifold. The block and camber portions include respective mating surfaces that are complementary to the exterior surface area of the manifold onto which the mating surfaces are affixed.

Abstract: Heat exchanger (100) has one or several substantially flat and rigid elongated tubing elements (10), whereby the tubing elements (10) tilted while being helically wound, forming a substantially overall cylindrical structure having a central longitudinal axis (X). Tubing elements (10) are tilted spirally curved around the central longitudinal axis (X). Several elements are interleaved in a structure. The tubing elements (10) have a plurality of fins (60) on at least one of the outer surfaces (42, 52) of first (40) and/or second (50) side wall. Fins (60) are at least partially covered by a covering wall (70, 80). The tubing elements (10) are at least partially tilted or at least partially tilted and sloped and at least partially helically wound and/or twisted so as to form at least a part of a helical structure, an overall cylindrical structure and/or a cylindrical shape.

Abstract: A heat exchanger including a plurality of horizontally arranged tubes, headers to support the tubes and to enable a refrigerant to flow in the tubes, and a corrugated fin horizontally disposed between the tubes, wherein the corrugated fins includes a vertical fin body, flat contact parts formed at an upper part and a lower part of the fin body, the flat contact parts being in surface contact with a top and a bottom of the tubes, and curved contact parts extending from opposite ends of the flat contact parts, the curved contact parts being in surface contact with the sides of the tubes, the fin body includes drainage guides formed outside the flat contact parts in a lateral direction, and each drainage guide includes protruding parts protruding more upward and downward than the flat contact parts.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes first, second, third, and fourth passages. Engine coolant flows through the first passages. Engine oil flows through the second passages. Transmission oil flows through the fourth passages after flows through the third passages. Each first passage and each third passage is disposed in the same layer. Each second passage and each fourth passage is disposed in the same layer. Each first and each third passage are disposed in a different layer from the layer of each second and each fourths flow passage. Each fourth passage is disposed upstream of a first flow direction of the engine coolant in each first passage, and each second passage is disposed downstream of the first flow direction. Each third passage is disposed upstream of a second flow direction of the engine oil in each second passage, and each first passage is disposed downstream of the second flow direction.

Abstract: It is aimed to reduce the size of heat exchange tubes and also to reduce pressure loss of a fluid flowing in an external flow path formed between adjacent heat exchange tubes. A first projecting portion 41 and a second projecting portion 42 of a first heat exchange tube 2A are joined to portions around an inlet 3C and outlet 3D of a second heat exchange tube 2B. A first flow path forming portion 61, a second flow path forming portion 62, and a third flow path forming portion 63 of an internal flow path 3 of each of the first heat exchange tube 2A and the second heat exchange tube 2B face a first thin portion 21A and a second thin portion 21B of the second heat exchange tube 2B or the first heat exchange tube 2A across an external flow path 4.

Abstract: A fin for a heat exchanger includes a flat portion having an upstream flat part and a downstream flat part parallel to a flow direction of a fluid. Multiple louvers are arranged in the flow direction. A fluid-turning part including a surface approximately parallel to the flow direction is arranged between two of the multiple louvers. A first portion of the louvers located upstream of the fluid-turning part are inclined in a direction opposite from a second portion of the louvers located downstream of the fluid-turning part. The first and second portion of the louvers include first louvers and second louvers. The first louvers are inclined from the flat portion at a first inclined angle larger than a second inclined angle at which the second louvers are inclined from the flat portion. The second louvers are arranged adjacent to the fluid-turning part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling radiator for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, comprising a bundle allowing the exchange of heat between a first fluid and a second fluid. The bundle includes at least one row of parallel tubes (2) through which the first fluid flows, said tubes being flat and spaced apart from one another by a pitch, known as the tube pitch, in a first direction. In addition, the tubes (2) are provided with corrugations (22) designed to disrupt the flow of the first fluid. The tube pitch is between 5 and 8 mm.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a core comprising flat tubes with corrugated fins provided in spaces between tubes. An end mounting arrangement includes a mounting bracket for attachment to a housing. A fin support structure comprises a plurality of support walls and a plurality of axial walls, wherein each of the support walls is integrally joined to at least one of the axial walls, each of the support walls is in contact with the endmost corrugation of one of the fins, and each of the axial walls is in contact with one of the plate pairs. The fin support structure may have a corrugated structure, and is mounted at the end of the core at which the mounting bracket is provided, so as to support and minimize damage to the corrugated fins caused by bypass air flowing between the mounting bracket and the core.

Abstract: A heat exchanger system containing a heat exchanger coupled to a fitting. The fitting contains a tube having a heat exchanger attachment end and an opposing end. The fitting further having a sleeve, having a sleeve body connecting a first end of the sleeve to an overlapping end. The first end of the sleeve being coupled to an outer surface of the tube and the sleeve body and the second end of the sleeve being spaced from the outer surface of the tube defining a space for receiving a conduit and adapted for coupling the fitting to the conduit. Also described is a fitting that can be attached to a conduit.

Abstract: A flat tube heat exchange apparatus that has flat tubes arranged at a regular pitch in the step direction which is orthogonal to the row direction of fins. If the step direction pitch of the flat tubes is defined as Dp, the coefficient of Dp is k, and if 0<k<0.5 or 0.5<k<1, the distance between a fin end at one side in the step direction of the fins, and the center of a flat tube in the thickness direction is k·Dp, and the distance between a fin end at the other side in the step direction of the fins, and the center of a flat tube in the thickness direction is (1?k)·Dp.

Abstract: Provided is a heater core which has a simple structure using a pipe connector formed by coupling a first plate and a second plate, thereby facilely manufacturing it, and also which can have a smaller size, since an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe are disposed to be adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange tubes and corrugated fins. The heat exchange tubes are spaced apart from one another in a vertical direction of the heat exchanger. The corrugated fins are each disposed between adjacent heat exchange tubes. Each of the corrugated fins includes crest portions, trough portions, and connection portions. The crest portions extend in an air passage direction of the heat exchanger. The trough portions extend in the air passage direction. The connection portions connect the crest portions and the trough portions. The number of the crest portions of each of the corrugated fins disposed between adjacent heat exchange tubes falls within a range of a designed number ±2. The designed number is a standard number.

Abstract: Provided is a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of refrigerant tubes in which a refrigerant flows, a heat dissipation-fin in which the plurality of refrigerant tubes are inserted and through which the refrigerant and a fluid are heat-exchanged with each other, a header coupled to at least one side of the plurality of refrigerant tubes to define a refrigerant flow space, and a guide device disposed within the header to branch the refrigerant into a plurality of passages corresponding to the plurality of refrigerant tubes.

Abstract: A heat exchanger unit includes a heat exchanger main body in which a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger are arranged in series relative to a refrigerant flowing direction and an air flowing direction. The heat exchanger main body includes on one side thereof an external connection portion configured to supply at least refrigerant and on the other side thereof a communicating portion configured to connect (allowing fluid communication between) the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A bypass flow path extends from the one side to the other side of the heat exchanger main body, and is configured to bypass the first heat exchanger. At least one of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger includes a pair of tank sections disposed at an interval, and a plurality of first heat transfer tubes configured to connect the pair of tank sections.

Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly of two parts crimped together by folding at least one portion of peripheral edge (12) of one so-called first part (8) over the other so-called second part (9). Said first part (8) has a hinge-forming region facilitating the folding of said portion of peripheral edge (12). The invention also relates to a manifold comprising said assembly and a heat exchanger comprising said manifold.

Abstract: In a method for the production of a heat exchanger, a turbulator insert is placed into a heat exchanging tube, with the turbulator insert having a solder applied thereon in at least one region. Weld spots using resistance welding are formed on an inner surface of the heat exchanging tube with the turbulator insert, and the inner surface of the heat exchanging tube is interlinked with the turbulator insert through brazing.

Abstract: An inner fin is provided in a fluid pipe for dividing a fluid passage for heating medium into multiple small fluid passages, so as to facilitate heat exchange between the heating medium and an electronic part. The inner fin is formed in a wave shape in a cross section perpendicular to a flow direction of the heating medium, wherein the inner fin has projecting portions alternately projecting in one direction and in the other direction. The inner fin is composed of multiple fin portions, wherein a fin pitch of a first fin portion is made to be smaller than a fin pitch of a second fin portion, which faces to the electronic part.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for use with a two-phase refrigerant includes an inlet header, an outlet header, and a plurality of refrigerant tubes hydraulically connecting the headers. A distributor tube has a plurality of orifices disposed in the inlet header, the end of the refrigerant tubes opposite the outlet header extends inside the inlet header and abuts a surface of the distributor tube, a portion of an inner surface of the inlet header facing the surface of the distributor tube and the surface of the distributor tube defining a first chamber. A gap separates at least a portion of the distributor tube and the inlet header, the gap extending from at least the orifices to the first chamber, wherein at least one partition having at least one opening formed therethrough spanning the gap, the partition separating the orifices from the first chamber.

Abstract: A structure for separating condensate formed in a charge-air-cooler of a turbocharged engine system. The structure may include ribs that catch and direct condensate away from the outlet. The structure may also include a deflector and water dam that prevents condensation from exiting the charge-air-cooler outlet. The condensate maybe be collected and simply drained to outside of the vehicle.

Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing which has a cooling-liquid inlet formed at a rear end portion of the casing and a cooling-liquid outlet formed at a front end portion of the casing. A corrugated fin for forming a plurality of flow channels through which a cooling liquid flows from the rear side toward the front side is disposed within the casing to be located between the cooling-liquid inlet and the cooling-liquid outlet. A heat-generating-body mounting region is provided on an outer surface of a top wall of the casing. Projections which come into contact with front and rear end portions of the corrugated fin to thereby position the corrugated fin in the front-rear direction are provided on an inner surface of the bottom wall of the casing at positions shifted, in the left-right direction, from an inner surface region corresponding to the heat-generating-body mounting region.

Abstract: A heat transfer augmented channel wall includes a bulk portion, a wall surface and a plurality of multi-portion indented features extending from the wall surface into the bulk portion. The multi-portion indented features include a first indented portion and a second indented portion that are divided by a ridge which disrupts fluid flow between first and second indented portions. The ridge has a height that is less than a maximum depth of the multi-portion indented features.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an effective cooling-energy storing performance and a stable cooling-energy radiating performance and to realize a high productivity. An evaporator has a plurality of refrigerant tubes arranged at almost equal intervals to form therebetween accommodating spaces. A plurality of cooling-storage containers are arranged in some of the accommodating spaces and fins are arranged in the remaining accommodating spaces. A cooling-storage unit is formed by one cooling-storage container and two refrigerant tubes arranged at both sides of the cooling-storage container. Each of the cooling-storage container has projections extending from one wall portion to the other wall portion to form heat exchange portions. The cooling-storage container is connected to the refrigerant tubes by soldering material.

Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation cooler that includes an inlet tank, an outlet tank, and an exhaust gas flow conduit in fluid communication with the inlet tank and the outlet tank. The exhaust gas flow conduit includes a first end, a second end, a first narrow side, a second narrow side, a first channel adjacent the first narrow side and extending between the first end and the second end, a second channel adjacent the second narrow side and extending between the first end and the second end, and a plurality of third channels located between the first channel and the second channel and extending between the first end and the second end. At least one of the inlet tank and the outlet tank includes a wall that inhibits exhaust gas from flowing through the first channel while allowing exhaust gas flow through the plurality of third channels.