Side-by-side Tubular Structures Or Tube Sections Patents (Class 165/172)
  • Publication number: 20110139420
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a heat exchanger with microchannel, parallel flow, all-aluminum flat tube welding structure, wherein the heat exchange part of the heat exchanger is formed by flat tubes composed of extruded thin-wall aluminum profiles in parallel arrangement. Compared to existing technology, the present invention has the following advantages: 1. The heat exchange efficiency of refrigerant and the inner wall of flat tubes is increased by 40%, and the flow resistance of the refrigerant in the heat exchanger is reduced by 40%. 2. The heat exchange efficiency of fins on air side is increased by 40%, and the wind resistance of the heat exchanger on air side is reduced by 40%. 3. The heat exchange performance of the entire heat exchanger is improved by 40%. 4. The refrigerant covered is 40% less than that in the conventional technology. 5. All-aluminum structure features longer service life due to no copper-aluminum potential difference when comparing with copper-aluminum structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Lei Wang
  • Publication number: 20110139403
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (15) comprising a plurality of generally parallel passages through which air is to pass in a first direction through a first set of passages (16) and in an opposite direction to said first direction through a second set of said passages (22), the passages of said first set (16) being located adjacent the passages of said second set (22). The heat exchanger (15) further comprising sheet material that separates the first set (16) from the second set (22), and provides for the transfer of heat between said first set (16) and said second set of passages (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: John Francis Urch
  • Publication number: 20110132585
    Abstract: A microchannel heat exchanger includes for each channel, a serpentine shaped tube for providing a plurality of parallel flow passes for successively conducting fluid flow therethrough, and being fluidly interconnected between an inlet and an outlet manifold. Multiple circuits are obtained by the individual serpentine shaped tubes. Various methods are provided for forming the serpentine shaped tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Chen, Jules R. Munoz, Young K. Park, Parmesh Verma, Silivia Miglioli, Yirong Jiang
  • Publication number: 20110127015
    Abstract: A microchannel heat exchanger has a core having at least one heat exchange tube bank having a plurality of flow channels with a small hydraulic diameter less than 5 mm. A means is provided to reduce the amount of water retained on the external surfaces of the at least one heat exchange tube bank. These means may utilize the incorporation of a particular routing of refrigerant within the heat exchanger, the operation and control of a fan associated with the heat exchanger, or the provision of structure to at least partially block liquid from reaching the heat exchanger tube bank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Michael F. Taras, Jack Leon Esfromes
  • Publication number: 20110108259
    Abstract: An oil cooler which is relatively compact in size, yet provides for efficient fluid movement to reduce the temperature of the oil without requiring an external fan, fins or the like is configured to include multiple, parallel paths (i.e., pipes) through which the motor oil flows and is cooled before returning to the system. A plurality of relatively short pipes, grouped in sets, is used to direct the flow of the motor oil from the intake (where the oil leaves the engine and is at its hottest temperature) to the outlet. By the time the oil circulates through the groups of pipes, it will have sufficiently cooled to allow it to return to the system. The contact between the flowing oil and the surfaces of the pipes creates the cooling action as the oil flows therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: TWIN AIR B.V. HOLLAND
    Inventor: Wijnand Fransiscus Groen
  • Patent number: 7934542
    Abstract: This invention is a tube bundle heat exchanger for thermophoretic deposition of aerosol particles. It has a housing with an internal chamber, and several cold and hot tubes. The cold and hot tubes are arranged in a staggered manner in the internal chamber of the housing. Low and high temperature fluids flow inside the cold and hot tubes, respectively. When the exhaust gas passes through the chamber, temperature gradient between the cold and hot tubes causes aerosol particles suspended in the exhaust gas to deposit on the surface of cold tubes to achieve the treatment of exhaust gas. Staggered arrangement of cold and hot tubes can maintain nearly constant temperature gradient in the direction of the gas flow thereby enhances the overall removal efficiency of particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: National Chiao Tung University
    Inventors: Chuen-Jinn Tsai, Shih-Hsuan Huang, Chih-Liang Chien
  • Patent number: 7934301
    Abstract: A sheet of expanded metal produced by slitting a sheet of metal, and stretching along a stretching direction, which sheet of expanded metal forms a grid of openings having a first repetition length in the stretching direction and a second repetition length in the direction perpendicular to the stretching direction, wherein the first and second repetition lengths are substantially equal. A sheet of expanded metal having a stretching angle larger than 90 degrees. Use of a sheet of expanded metal according to the invention for supporting a bundle of parallel tubes. A method of manufacturing expanded metal from pre-expanded metal, wherein expansion force is applied at a plurality of points perpendicular to the stretching direction, wherein the expansion force is applied using a plurality of force transmitters co-operating with the plurality of points, and wherein the force transmitters are arranged so that they can move towards each other in the second direction while applying extension force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Dominicus Fredericus Mulder
  • Publication number: 20110083468
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat-exchanger for an air-conditioning circuit that includes a first pipe (110) defining a path for a flow of fluid, the first pipe being spirally wound about a so-called exchanger axis (A). According to the invention, the heat exchanger (9) further includes at least one second pipe (120a, 120b) defining a path for a flow of a second fluid, said second pipe being provided against a surface of the first pipe (110)and spirally wound together with said first pipe (110) about said axis (A). The invention can be used in air-conditioning circuits operating with a super-critical coolant, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Aurelie Bellenfant, Jimmy Lemee, Lionel Renault, Frederic Bernard
  • Patent number: 7921905
    Abstract: A plastic intercooler assembly includes a plurality of plastic tubes that extend between plastic end plates. The plastic tubes are secured to the end plates to provide the desired seal between the end plates and the ends of the tubes. The plastic tubes are attached utilizing plastic welding methods that reduce assembly time and cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Bobbye Kaye Baylis, Bruce J. Harvey, Ian R. McLean, Paul D. Daly
  • Publication number: 20110073281
    Abstract: In an evaporator that constitutes part of a vehicular air conditioning apparatus, a sensor is provided, which is capable of detecting the temperature in the evaporator. In the evaporator, the sensor is installed on a back surface side thereof facing a downstream side, and on a first cooling section, through which air from a first blower unit flows. Also, the sensor is installed at a position in the vicinity of a supply conduit that supplies a coolant medium with respect to the evaporator. At a region where a maximum low temperature in the evaporator occurs, and for which there is a fear of freezing due to moisture contained within the air, the temperature is detected by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Seto
  • Patent number: 7910864
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a PTC heating element with at least one PTC resistance element which is arranged between two electrically conductive plates in a housing opening of a housing and, with at least one of the electrically conductive plates as an intermediate layer, which is pressed with an initial tension against a heat-emitting element which is held at the housing. With the present invention, a PTC heating element of the type mentioned at the beginning that can be manufactured easily and economically is to be specified. To solve this problem, the present invention further develops the PTC heating element mentioned at the beginning in such a way that attachment tabs arranged on the edge of the housing opening protrude beyond the housing opening and in such a way that the heat-emitting element has tab cuts, behind which the tabs engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Catem GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Franz Bohlender
  • Patent number: 7895957
    Abstract: A heat exchanger tube 41 includes: a first cover layer 44 provided on an outer side of a tube main body 42 to partly or completely cover a tube main body 42; and a second cover layer 45 provided on an outer side of the first cover layer 44 to partly or completely cover the first cover layer 44. The first cover layer 44 is formed by overlay-welding a material higher in ductility than the second cover layer 45 to the tube main body 42. The second cover layer 45 is formed by overlay-welding a material higher in hardness than the first cover layer 44 to the first cover layer 44.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Inomata, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7886812
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising a heat exchange core composed of tube groups in the form of rows arranged in the direction of flow of air through the exchanger, each of the tube groups including a plurality of heat exchange tubes arranged at a spacing. A refrigerant inlet header and a refrigerant outlet header are positioned at the upper end of the core and having respective groups of heat exchange tubes joined thereto. A refrigerant turn tank is disposed at the lower end of the core. The turn tank has its interior divided by a partition wall into a refrigerant inflow header and a refrigerant outflow header. The heat exchange tubes have lower end portions inserted in the headers and are joined to the headers. Refrigerant passing holes are formed in the partition wall. The heat exchange tubes have their lower ends positioned below the lower ends of the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventor: Naohisa Higashiyama
  • Publication number: 20110030421
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a method for purifying a foreign-substance-laden gas flow of the foreign substance, with the gas flow being conducted through a heat exchanger and being placed in thermal contact with a cooling medium in order to freeze and/or condense the foreign substance out, wherein the purification takes place in only one tube heat exchanger, through the interior space of which the gas flow is conducted from a first end region to a second end region, and here, is cooled by means of contact with a first group of tubes which are traversed by the coolant, and in that the gas flow, in the second end region, is directly deflected again and is conducted back through the interior space of the heat exchanger to the first end region through a second group of tubes while undergoing an exchange of heat with the gas flow flowing into the interior space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Manfred Stahl, Thomas Kutz
  • Publication number: 20110011572
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising helically wound tube bundles is disclosed. The helically wound tube bundles are joined with tube sheets to define a primary working fluid system that is fluidically isolated from a secondary working fluid system. The tube sheets and tubes are formed of the same material, which facilitates their joining by means of joints that are substantially galvanic corrosion-resistant joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Nagurny, Natalie B. Levings, Derek M. Beckner, Scott M. Maurer
  • Publication number: 20100314089
    Abstract: Reverse flow heat exchangers including one or more pairs of contiguous ducts are provided. An intake duct conveys particle laden air, such as engine exhaust, to a combustion chamber and an exit duct conveys the purified air away from the combustion chamber. The exit duct is shaped such that the cross sectional area thereof varies as function of the length thereof, for example, the cross sectional area can increase as a function of distance from the combustion chamber. The intake duct can also be shaped to have a varying cross sectional area. A combustion purifier is formed by the combination of the combustion chamber with the reverse flow heat exchanger. When used in combination with an engine, the shapes of the ducts can serve to increase the power or efficiency of the engine by further reducing backpressure, as compared to a reverse flow heat exchanger without the shaped ducts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventor: Lincoln Evans-Beauchamp
  • Patent number: 7846226
    Abstract: A method of assembling a spray quench apparatus is provided. The method includes coupling a first end of an exit tube to a quench chamber such that the exit tube end is in flow communication with the quench chamber, coupling at least one spray nozzle to an opposite second end of the exit tube such that water emitted from the spray nozzle fills the exit tube and forms a film of water across an inner surface of the exit tube, coupling a water source to the quench chamber for providing a substantially continuous water film along an inner surface of the quench chamber, and coupling at least one discharge apparatus to the quench chamber for providing water spray into the quench chamber, wherein the water of the water film and water sprays drains into a water sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Leininger, Allyson Joy Jimenez-Huyke, Judeth Brannon Corry, Fulton Jose Lopez, Aaron John Avagliano, John Saunders Stevenson, Lien-Yan Chen
  • Publication number: 20100300666
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is formed with tessellating conduits 4 passing therethrough. The tessellating conduits having transverse cross-sectional shapes which together substantially completely cover the transverse plane to the heat exchange 2. The tessellating conduits may be the outer conduits 18 within conduit pairs formed of an outer conduit 18 and an inner conduit 22. The outer conduits may have a cross-section that is a regular hexagon and the inner conduits may have a cross-section that is a circle. The heat exchanger can advantageously be formed by selective remelting of material with an energy beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Drummond Watson Hislop, Stephen David Joseph
  • Publication number: 20100300550
    Abstract: Provided is a process and device for exchanging heat energy between three or more streams in a microchannel heat exchanger which can be integrated with a microchannel reactor to form an integrated microchannel processing unit. The combining of a plurality of integrated microchannel devices to provide the benefits of large-scale operation is enabled. In particular, the microchannel heat exchanger enables flexible heat transfer between multiple streams and total heat transfer rates of about 1 Watt or more per core unit volume expressed as W/cc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: VELOCYS, INC.
    Inventors: James Allen Mathias, G. Bradley Chadwell, Dongming Qiu, Anna Lee Y.Tonkovich, Steven T. Perry, Matthew B. Schmidt, Sean P. Fitzgerald, David J. Hesse, Thomas D. Yuschak, Bin Yang
  • Publication number: 20100282453
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat exchanger for bathing shower comprising a heat exchanging slab and two sealing covers. The heat exchanging slab is extruded by alloy metal material into simple overall structure to reduce processing steps, total manufacturing cost and selling price. A close water circulation entirety with circulation directing means is created therein to improve heat exchanging efficiency and energy saving effect of the water heater. Thereby, purchasing intention of consumers is increased in consequence of satisfaction of the purchasing ability. Thus, not only the speed and range of the promotion is benefited, but also the environmental protection in energy saving and carbon reducing effect is expedited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventor: Ying Lin Cai
  • Patent number: 7828049
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes left and right header tanks disposed in parallel; top and bottom side plates that couple respectively both ends of the pair of the header tanks; a first plurality of tubes connected between the pair of the header tanks at both ends that are disposed in a region nearer the bottom side plate as a condenser; and a second plurality of tubes that are disposed in a region nearer the top side plate as an oil cooler. Each tube in the second tubes has a cross-sectional shape identical to that of each tube in the first tubes and the top side plate is formed to have a squared U-shaped cross section so that a return pipe communicating with the second tubes can be disposed along a groove having the squared U-shaped cross section of the top side plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Ryouichi Sanada, Junji Kato
  • Publication number: 20100275643
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a component (135) for a condenser (100). Condenser (100) includes a shell (110) having a vapor refrigerant inlet (112) and a liquid refrigerant outlet (114). Component (130) has a center channel (134) and at least two outer channels (135) and conforms to shell (110), thereby reducing the amount of refrigerant in condenser (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: JOHNSON CONTROLS TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Inventor: Andrew M. Welch
  • Publication number: 20100230081
    Abstract: A heat exchanger device having a plurality of substantially parallel tubes. Each tube has an outer diameter which is less than or equal to one millimeter and further includes a first end portion and a second end portion. A first manifold forms an inlet for the first fluid and further forms a plurality of first openings, whereby each of the first end portions of the parallel tubes is attached in a sealed manner to the first manifold so that each tube is in fluid communication with a respective one of the first openings. A second manifold spaced from and opposing the first manifold forms an outlet for the first fluid and further forms a plurality of second openings, whereby each of the second end portions of the parallel tubes is attached in a sealed manner to the second manifold so that each tube is in fluid communication with a respective one of the second openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL MEZZO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Charles J. Becnel, Jeffrey John McLean
  • Patent number: 7788073
    Abstract: A process for determining the strength of a plate-type heat exchanger includes computing the temperature stresses of the plate-type heat exchanger within the heat exchanger during its operation by a three-dimensional numerical simulation. Based on the computed temperature stresses, the strength of the plate-type heat exchanger is determined. The process for producing a plate-type heat exchanger with separating plates and profiles of metal uses this strength determination for establishing one or more mechanical parameters of the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is manufactured with the one or more mechanical parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Reinhold Hölzl
  • Patent number: 7779898
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for cooling fluids entering a closed circuit cooling tower. A triple circuit assembly is used to cool the fluid in the closed loop. The triple circuit assembly design allows a heat transfer tube bundle to maintain a relatively low pressure drop, but without simultaneously lowering thermal performance to a significant degree as compared to traditional double serpentine or QUAD serpentine designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Baltimore Aircoil Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank T. Morrison, Thomas P. Carter
  • Publication number: 20100206531
    Abstract: The invention relates to a condenser for refrigerators with gravity-type convection, especially for domestic refrigerators, comprising at least one tape-shaped line (1) which has a width at least twice as large as its thickness, at least two channels (3,4) separated from each other and arranged one adjacent to the other, and, if used in accordance with the invention, is installed on end and largely almost parallel to the bottom edge of the refrigerator. Line sections arranged one behind the other in the direction of flow have the top edge of the preceding line section each offset in parallel in the direction of flow relative to the bottom edge of the succeeding line section. The use of commercial extruded sectional aluminium tubes makes it possible to manufacture a condenser at reasonable cost with excellent heat exchange properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: Institut Fuer Luft und Kaeltetechnik Gemeinneetzige GmbH
    Inventors: Olaf Hempel, Eberhard Wobst, Carsten Heinrich, Markus Mueller
  • Publication number: 20100175860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger applied to a boiler, and an object of the present invention is to provide a heat exchanger that can improve heat transfer efficiency by reducing distance between the heat exchange pipes while making a heating water passage passing through heat exchange pipes be long, and can be easily manufactured. In order to achieve the heat exchanger, according to the present invention, heat exchanger includes a heat exchange device, first and second subsidiary plates, and first and second end plates. The heat exchange device includes a plurality of heat exchange pipe units through which heating water passes and which are spaced apart from each other at regular intervals, and the heat exchange pipe units are provided between a heating water inlet and a heating water outlet, and are formed of pipes having a rectangular cross-section of which a side coming in contact with the combustion gas has a width large than the height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventor: Tae Sik Min
  • Publication number: 20100147499
    Abstract: According to the present invention, in constituting a heat exchange element having a stacked-layer structure in which sheet-like partition members added a moisture absorbent thereto and spacing members are stacked alternately, the spacing members being joined with the partition members so as to form air flow passages together with the partition members, each of the spacing members includes a plurality of section walls that divide a space between the partition member joined under the spacing member and the partition member joined on the spacing member into a plurality of flow passages, and one or more first section walls formed with holes that bring adjacent flow passages into communication with each other and one or more second section walls formed with no hole that brings adjacent flow passages into communication with each other are alternately arranged in each of the spacing members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidemoto Arai, Masaru Takada, Takanori Imai, Youichi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20100147488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for temperature controlling and fastening of battery units of the battery of a vehicle. The heat exchanger includes flat tubes that are passable by a heat carrier and a collecting tube and distributing tube for conducting the heat carrier. The flat tubes are established as multi-channel flat tubes. The collecting tube and the distributing tube are connected to each other over the flat tubes so that a holding frame is established that provides a structure forming spaces. The spaces are provided as chambers for accommodating the battery units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Eric D. Pierre, Marc Graaf, Florian Wieschollek, Felix Girmscheid
  • Patent number: 7730616
    Abstract: A method of cooling syngas in a gasifier is provided. The method includes channeling cooling fluid through at least one tube-bundle that includes at least three tubes coupled together within a radiant syngas cooler and extends through a reaction zone of the gasifier, and circulating reactant fluid around the at least one tube-bundle to facilitate transferring heat from the reactant fluid to the cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: George Albert Goller, Daniel Anthony Nowak
  • Publication number: 20100122806
    Abstract: Compact and efficient apparatuses for transferring heat, heat exchangers, and furnaces, as well as HVAC units, HVAC systems, and buildings therewith, plus methods of making such devices. Furnace heat exchangers, for example, have an added stage, added in an unconventional way, that improves efficiency without unduly increasing size, while maintaining required radiuses of bends in tubing. Various embodiments orient bends at particular angles to allow stages to fit together more closely, provide improved structure for connecting stages using two collectors that seal against a common junction plate, provide for indoor air passing through the heat exchanger to pass through different passes of the heat exchanger in an unconventional order in order to provide greater compactness, or a combination thereof, as examples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: Nordyne Inc.
    Inventor: Linda M. Halgash
  • Publication number: 20100116480
    Abstract: An underbody assembly for a vehicular climate control system is disclosed including fluid flow conduits formed of steel coated with polymeric material such as nylon 12. The conduits are continuous between opposite ends free of joints or flexible connection. In one form, the conduit includes branches or connectors formed of polymeric material sealed to the outer polymeric layer of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: TI Group Automotive Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Barden, Charles Thrift, Jason Zech
  • Patent number: 7699095
    Abstract: A core unit for a heat exchanger comprises a pair of headers spaced from one another each defining a fluid space for receiving a fluid therein and each defining a plurality of apertures. A first region comprising a plurality of first tubes extends between the headers and a first fin is disposed between adjacent pairs of the first tubes. A second region comprising a plurality of second tubes extends between the headers and a second fin is disposed between adjacent pairs of the second tubes. A crushable center different than the first and second regions is disposed parallelly between the first and second regions for controllably crushing when the headers are bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Earl Beamer, Steve C. Brick, Christopher Alfred Fuller, Robert Michael Runk
  • Patent number: 7694528
    Abstract: In a heat exchanging apparatus for a vapor compression refrigerant cycle, an internal heat exchanger is attached to an end of a radiator. The internal heat exchanger is arranged such that high-pressure refrigerant passages are closer to the radiator than low-pressure refrigerant passages. The heat exchanging apparatus can be mounted on a vehicle such that the radiator receives cooling air more than the internal heat exchanger. Because the internal heat exchanger performs heat exchange between high-pressure refrigerant and low-pressure refrigerant, performance of the internal heat exchanger is not degraded even if it is located at a part receiving less cooling air. Thus, the heat exchanging apparatus is easily mounted on a vehicle by integrating the internal heat exchanger with the radiator, without reducing a cooling capacity of the radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Nishida, Masaaki Kawakubo, Yoshitaka Tomatsu
  • Publication number: 20100077968
    Abstract: A heat transfer system having a a radiant source, a first heat exchanger configured to permit a first fluid to flow therethrough, and a thermal shield configured to provide controlled radiative heat from the radiant source to the first exchanger. The radiant source is a flame. The thermal shield is a second heat exchanger configured to permit a second fluid to flow therethrough or a non-contact thermal shield fabricated from a material arranged to provide controlled radiative heat exposure from the radiant source to the first exchanger. Oxy/coal combustion systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Reed Jacob Hendershot, Xiaoyi He, Jeffrey William Kloosterman, Michael Joseph Hibay, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov
  • Patent number: 7670574
    Abstract: A method of cooling syngas in a gasifier is provided. The method includes channeling cooling fluid through at least one tube-bundle that includes at least three tubes coupled together within a radiant syngas cooler and extends through a reaction zone of the gasifier, and circulating reactant fluid around the at least one tube-bundle to facilitate transferring heat from the reactant fluid to the cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: George Albert Goller, Daniel Anthony Nowak
  • Publication number: 20100038059
    Abstract: A reinforced thermal module structure includes a heat pipe, a radiating base, and a radiating fin assembly. The heat pipe includes a conducting section and a heat-dissipating section. The conducting section is in contact with and connected to the radiating base, and the heat-dissipating section is extended through and connected to the radiating fin assembly. The radiating base has at least two support arms. Each of the support arms has an extended free end extended toward and pressed against one side of the radiating fin assembly. The support arms not only help in giving the entire thermal module an enhanced structural strength, but also in increasing the heat conducting area and heat dissipating efficiency of the thermal module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Applicant: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih Peng Chen
  • Publication number: 20100032146
    Abstract: To provide a method and an arrangement for heat treatment of substrates which allow continuously adjustable cooling rates over a wide temperature range with simultaneously largely homogeneous temperature distribution over the area of the heating/cooling plate, a cooling/heating plate is provided containing a multiplicity of cooling/heating pipes running parallel to one another. Each cooling/heating pipe comprises an outer pipe, an inner pipe which can carry a flow, and an interspace between them which can carry a flow. Each inner pipe is connected to a supply line for water and each interspace is connected to a supply line for air, with water and air being routed simultaneously though the cooling/heating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: CENTROTHERM THERMAL SOLUTIONS GMBH + CO.KG
    Inventors: Robert Michael Hartung, Hans Ulrich Voller
  • Publication number: 20100025023
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, particularly an exhaust gas heat exchanger, for transferring heat in two stages between a first fluid and a second and third fluid that have different temperatures is provided. The heat exchanger comprises a block for separately conducting the first as well as the second and third fluid in a heat transferring manner. The block encompasses a number of ducts through which the first fluid can flow, a first chamber of a high-temperature part, through which the second fluid can flow and which accommodates the ducts, a second chamber of a low-temperature part, through which the third fluid flows and which accommodates the ducts, and a housing in which the first and second chamber as well as the ducts are arranged. Thus, a two-stage heat exchanger is provided at a low cost and keeps leakage between the high-temperature part and the low-temperature part low. Whereby the first chamber and the second chamber are separated from one another by means of a separation area that is mounted in a groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Schmidt, Ulrich Maucher, Juergen Barwig, Tobias Fetzer, Hans-Ulrich Steurer, Peter Geskes, Jens Ruckwied
  • Patent number: 7654108
    Abstract: A unit for a refrigerant cycle device includes an ejector that has a nozzle part which decompresses refrigerant, and a refrigerant suction port from which refrigerant is drawn by a high-speed refrigerant flow jetted from the nozzle part, a first evaporator connected to the outlet of the ejector, and a second evaporator connected to the refrigerant suction port of the ejector. One of the first evaporator and the second evaporator has a tank structure that includes a tank for distributing refrigerant into or for collecting the refrigerant from refrigerant passages of a heat exchanging part. The tank has therein a first space through which the refrigerant discharged from the outlet of the ejector flows into a heat exchanging part of the first evaporator, and a second space through which the refrigerant to be drawn into the refrigerant suction port flows into a heat exchanging part of the second evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa Ishizaka, Thuya Aung, Hiroshi Oshitani, Yoshiaki Takano, Mika Gocho, Hirotsugu Takeuchi, Yoshiyuki Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20100018671
    Abstract: To provide a heat exchanging device for powder, which is capable of suppressing as much as possible the compression force applied to an object to be processed and reducing the manufacturing man-hour (time), while ensuring the piston flowability of the object to be processed. In order to achieve this object, the present invention is a heat exchanging device for powder, which is configured such that a shaft 13 is rotatably supported within a horizontally long casing 1, that a plurality of heat exchangers 30 are disposed at predetermined intervals on the shaft, and that a heat exchanging medium is supplied into the heat exchangers via the shaft, wherein the heat exchangers 30 are formed as substantially hollow disk-shaped heat exchangers each having a notched recess 31 directed to a center from a circumferential edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Nara Machinery Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yorioki Nara
  • Publication number: 20100006270
    Abstract: An air-cooled condenser for receiving and condensing steam has at least one first, corner module and at least one second, intermediate module. The first module has a four-sided profile in plan view and a respective vertical tube bundle panel located on each of two adjacent sides of the first module. The second module has a four-sided profile in plan view and a vertical tube bundle panel on one of its sides, and an internal tube bundle panel disposed inside of the second module. Steam is supplied to all of the tube bundle panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: SPX Cooling Technologies, Inc. (DE Corp.)
    Inventor: Michel Vouche
  • Publication number: 20100000725
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, provided with a body with at least one flue gas channel and at least one water carrying channel, at least one burner space and at least one flue gas discharge, wherein the at least one flue gas channel extends at least partly between at least a burner space and at least one flue gas discharge and at least a portion of the at least one flue gas channel comprises at least one porous or gas-transmissive heat exchange element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Karel Hubau, Hugo Lievens, Paul Thijssen, Jan van Peteghem
  • Patent number: 7635456
    Abstract: A syngas reforming reactor has a shell-and-tube configuration wherein the shell-side fluid flow path through the tube bundle has a longitudinal configuration. The reactor can include a shell-side inlet fluid distributor plate below the lower end of the tube bundle, and a flow sleeve in an enlarged-diameter discharge annulus at an upper end adjacent the tube sheet to prevent short-circuiting of the shell-side fluid into the shell-side fluid outlet. The tube bundle can include a plurality of ring baffles and lattice baffles. The longitudinal flow configuration can provide a lower shell-side pressure drop and lower cost compared to a conventional cross-flow reforming exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stevens Burlingame, Lloyd Edward Cizmar, Larry Gene Hackemesser, Laura Beth Aguilar
  • Publication number: 20090260786
    Abstract: A heat exchanger that comprises (a) a plurality of stacked tubular members defining a first set of flow passages for a first fluid through the tubular members and a second set of flow passages for a second fluid between adjacent tubular members, and (b) a tank connected to a first end of the stacked tubular members, the tank defining inlet and outlet manifolds in communication with inlet and outlet openings, respectively of the first set of flow passages for distributing the first fluid to and collecting the first fluid from the first set of flow passages, the tank defining a plurality of wall portions each having a first side facing at least one of the inlet and outlet manifolds and an opposite side facing a respective one of the second set of flow passages such that the wall portions provide heat exchanger interfaces between the first and second fluids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventor: Herve Palanchon
  • Publication number: 20090200004
    Abstract: A support for a bundle of tubes, which support has more than one transverse support plates spaced apart along the direction of the tubes to be supported, and which support plates are provided with openings for accommodating the tubes, wherein the support plates are segmental baffle support elements and expanded metal support elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Stephen Wayne Johnston, Dominicus Fredericus Mulder
  • Publication number: 20090133861
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger for a condensing boiler supplying both heating water and hot water, which can use a double pipe as a sensible heat exchanger, instead of the use of an indirect heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes: a sensible heat exchanger; and a latent heat exchanger made by connecting a plurality of unit heat exchangers to define exhaust gas pathway, each unit heat exchanger being manufactured in such a manner that three plates having a convexo-concave shape are stacked on one another to define a heating water pathway and a hot water pathway to be adjacent to each other in order to increase a heat transfer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong-Bum Kim
  • Publication number: 20090090486
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, comprising a first flow path (1) with a number of flow conduits (6) for conducting a fluid to be cooled, a deflection region (13), situated downstream of the first flow path (1) and a second flow path (2), situated downstream of the deflection region (13). According to the invention, the flow conduits (6) of the first flow path (1) continue in the deflection region (13) and the second flow path (2) as continuous separate flow conduits (6). The invention also relates to a flow conduit (41, 41?, 61, 61?, 71, 71?, 81, 81?, 91, 91?) for a heat exchanger (30, 40) for exchanging heat between a first fluid (31) and a second fluid (33), comprising: a conduit casing (63, 63?, 73?, 83, 83?, 93, 93?) with an interior (67) that is surrounded by an inner face (65) of the conduit casing; and a number of struts (69, 79, 79?, 89, 89?, 99) that are located in the interior (67) on the inner face (65) of the conduit casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: BEHR GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Geskes, Bernd Grunenwald, Wolfgang Knodler, Jens Ruckwied
  • Publication number: 20090078397
    Abstract: A method of assembling a radiant cooler includes providing a vessel shell that defines a gas flow passage therein that extends generally axially through the vessel shell, forming a tube cage from coupling a plurality of cooling tubes together to form a tube cage defined by a plurality of chevron-shaped projections that extend circumferentially about a center axis of the tube cage, each chevron-shaped projection includes a first side and a second side coupled together a tip, circumferentially-adjacent pairs of projections coupled together such that a valley is defined between each pair of circumferentially-spaced projections, each of the projection tips is positioned radially outward from each of the valleys, and orienting the tube cage within the vessel shell such that the tube cage is in flow communication with the flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: James Michael Storey, Aaron John Avagliano, Ashley Nicole Gerbode, John Battaglioli
  • Publication number: 20090071639
    Abstract: The outer surface of a core pipe 31 is pressed so as to form projections 313 on the inner surface of the core pipe 31, and a winding pipe 32 is helically wound around the outer circumference of the core pipe 31. Subsequently, the core pipe 31 and the winding pipe 32 are bent together, and brazing is performed. As a result, the outer surface of the winding pipe 32 is in contact with the outer surface of the core pipe 31 without any gap therebetween at a bending center portion (D), and the outer surface of the winding pipe (32) is bonded to the outer surface of the core pipe (31) by a brazing material (33) at the bending center portion (D) of the bent part C-C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: Daikin Industries , Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Numata, Yutaka Shibata