Side By Side Patents (Class 165/176)
  • Patent number: 11945598
    Abstract: A vapor-to-air heat exchanger for an aircraft powerplant that includes: a pressurized vapor source supplying vapor; and a condenser including a condenser inlet in fluid communication with the pressurized vapor source to receive the vapor, a condenser outlet, and at least one pneumatic vessel defining a cavity in fluid communication between the condenser inlet and the condenser outlet. The pneumatic vessel is reversibly inflatable to be configurable between a collapsed vessel configuration and an inflated vessel configuration. A volume of the cavity is greater in the inflated vessel configuration than in the collapsed vessel configuration. The pneumatic vessel is inflatable from the collapsed vessel configuration to the inflated vessel configuration when the cavity is pressurized by the vapor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventor: Daniel Alecu
  • Patent number: 11454451
    Abstract: A heat exchanger has: a first manifold assembly having a stack of plates; a second manifold assembly having a stack of plates; and a plurality of tubes extending from the first manifold assembly to the second manifold assembly. The plurality of tubes is a plurality groups of tubes. For each of the groups of the tubes: the tubes of the group have first ends mounted between plates of the first manifold assembly; and the tubes of the group have second ends mounted between plates of the second manifold assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: James F. Wiedenhoefer
  • Patent number: 11226158
    Abstract: A flow manifold for a heat exchanger core includes a number of fractal flow splitters arranged in a grid pattern of layers each fluidly connected to a corresponding first circuit layer, a flow plenum having a number of flow channels that are fluidly connected to an associated fractal flow splitter, one or more flow dividing vanes located in each flow channel thereby dividing the associated flow channel into two or more sub-channels, and an outer manifold surrounding the fractal flow splitters and configured to direct a first circuit flow into or out of the heat exchanger core. Each fractal flow splitter has an open end and a plenum end, and provides a transition from the open end to the flow plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: James Streeter
  • Patent number: 11129304
    Abstract: An electronic device inserted into and removed from a slot that has a connection port, the electronic device includes a coupled part coupled to the connection port, and a corrugated metal pipe that has one end coupled to the coupled part and the other end fixed to a body of the electronic device, wherein the pipe has a first straight line part that extends along a direction of the insertion and removal and a second straight line part that extends along a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the first straight line part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Naomi Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 11028947
    Abstract: An example coupling for an electric vehicle battery pack includes an attachment member configured to connect to a cold plate, a fluid inlet extending from the attachment member, and a fluid outlet extending from the attachment member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Giriraj Srinivasan, Neil Robert Burrows, James McManaman
  • Patent number: 10883773
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a tubular housing, a flange ring, two bases, and heat exchanger tubes running through the housing and respectively held at a longitudinal end side in the bases, a first flow channel formed therein, and a second flow channel formed between the tubes and the housing. The housing may be formed from first and second housing parts each being pot-shaped and having a housing portion, an outwardly widened flange ring portion, and a base. The housing parts may be connected to one another via the flange ring portions that may delimit an annular space. On the first housing part, inlet and outlet connecting-pieces for coolant may be provided. Between the housing and the heat exchanger tubes, at least one separator may be arranged, on which at least one blade may be provided, the blade engaging at least partly into the annular space and at least reducing a circumferential flow therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Christian Faber, Simon Hund, Bernd Kraemer, Albrecht Siegel
  • Patent number: 10697717
    Abstract: Embodiments of a water head for an evaporator in a HVAC system are provided. The water head may have a fluid entrance and a fluid exit in a side-by-side arrangement on one end of the water head, and a distribution chamber and a collection chamber in a top-down arrangement on opposite side of the water head. The distribution chamber and the collection chamber are configured to be in fluid communication with inlets and outlets of a heat exchanging tube bundle respectively. The distribution chamber and the collection chamber can be configured to have continuously smooth surface contours to help reduce pressure drop and fluid separation, and promote advantageous distribution of the process fluid among heat exchanging tubes when a process fluid flows between the fluid entrance or the fluid exit, and the distribution chamber or the collection chamber respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jon Phillip Hartfield, Harry Kenneth Ring, Gang Wang, Ruitao Liu
  • Patent number: 10670349
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger core, a header defining a header manifold, and a transition portion that provides fluid communication between the heat exchanger core and the header manifold. The transition portion includes a transition tube extending between the header and the heat exchanger core, a header junction where the transition tube joins the header, and a splitting junction that splits the transition tube into the plurality of heat exchange tubes. The header junction may define elliptical inlet apertures, a large filleted joint, and a junction thickness that is greater than a header wall thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas Allan Wilson, Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Donald Michael Corsmeier
  • Patent number: 10619937
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly for an aircraft includes a first heat exchanger with a first hot air circuit, a second heat exchanger with a second hot air circuit, a third heat exchanger with a third hot air circuit, and a cold circuit. The first heat exchanger is in fluid communication with a source of bleed air from the engine. The second heat exchanger is disposed adjacent to and in fluid communication with the first heat exchanger. The third heat exchanger is disposed adjacent to and in fluid communication with the second heat exchanger. The first, second, and third heat exchangers are fluidly connected in series. The cold air circuit passes through each of the first, second, and third heat exchangers. The first, second, and third heat exchangers are in cross-flow communication with the cold air circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Donald E. Army, Frederick Peacos, III
  • Patent number: 10342159
    Abstract: A liquid heat-dissipating assembly has a heat-guiding tube assembly, multiple heat-dissipating units, and at least one heat-dissipating tube. The heat-guiding tube assembly has a first tube, a second tube, and a separating segment. The first tube has at least one first channel. The second tube has at least one second channel. The separating segment is mounted between the first tube and the second tube. The heat-dissipating units are connected with the heat-guiding tube assembly, and each heat-dissipating unit has a heat-dissipating body, a first pipe, and a second pipe. The heat-dissipating body has a passage. The first pipe is connected with the passage and the at least one first channel. The second pipe is connected with the passage and the at least one second channel. The at least one heat-dissipating tube is connected with the at least one second channel of the second tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Man Zai Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Chien Wan, Cheng-Feng Wan, Hao-Hui Lin, Hsiao-Ching Chen, Wei-Che Hsiao, Tung-Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 10314315
    Abstract: A convection oven includes a cooking chamber for cooking a food product, an air circulator that circulates process air in a first direction through the cooking chamber and along a circulation path in a circulation passage. A heat exchanger includes one or more heat transfer ducts longitudinally arranged along the circulation path. One or more heating elements heat a fluid that is circulated in a second direction through the one or more heat transfer ducts which is opposite to the first direction. The process air absorbs heat from the heated fluid as the process air travels along the circulation path back to the cooking chamber. A partition wall may separate first and second parallel portions of the one or more heat transfer ducts. A heat exchanger may preheat fluid entering the one or more heat transfer ducts using heated fluid leaving the heat transfer ducts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: LBC BAKERY EQUIPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen B. Hegge, Daniel Lee Gilbert, Thomas E. Depner
  • Patent number: 10288362
    Abstract: A manifold for a heat exchanger for a motor vehicle that includes a tubular wall and at least one separating partition partitioning the manifold. The tubular wall may have at least one slot formed over a portion of the tubular wall's cross section and may allow for the insertion of said separating partition. The separating partition may include an internal part inserted into the tubular wall, and the internal part may have a periphery with a first portion and a second portion situated facing the tubular wall. The second portion may be adjacent to at least one deformation of the tubular wall, such that an internal cross section of the tubular wall corresponds to the perimeter of the partition along the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Valeo Systems Thermiques
    Inventors: Elise Beaurepaire, Philippe Doucet, Marc Herry, Julien Veron, Patrick Hoger
  • Patent number: 10113515
    Abstract: A water-cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler may include tubes positioned within a housing at a predetermined interval, which forms an exhaust gas passage that exhaust gas passes therethrough, and a tube bonded portion that seals internally and externally the tube is provided at a first side of the tube; and supporters interpose the tubes to define a predetermined interval between the tubes and positioned within the housing wherein a coolant passage which a coolant flows between the tubes is formed, wherein an external surface of a first side of the supporter is bonded to an external surface of the tubes to form a reinforcing bonded portion wherein the supporter covers and seals the tube bonded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Sung Il Yoon, Do Jun Park, Dong Young Lee, In Sung Yun
  • Patent number: 10066880
    Abstract: In an air-cooled heat exchanger system, the stress in the pipe connecting the upstream main pipe of the upstream manifold and each heat exchanger is minimized by using a simple structure. The air-cooled heat exchanger system (1) comprises an upstream manifold (6) including a plurality of upstream branch pipes (18) extending therefrom, a heat exchanger (4) connected to the downstream end of each branch pipe, and including an inlet header (31) placed on a base frame in a moveable manner, an outlet header and a plurality of heat transfer tubes (34) connecting the two headers, and a connecting member (41, 75) connecting each adjacent pair of the inlet headers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Ueno, Yoshiaki Sakomoto, Fumiaki Sakai, Kensaku Suzuki, Atsumasa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9857127
    Abstract: A header for an air cooled heat exchanger is provided. The header includes a housing having top and bottom walls and side walls and an inlet and an outlet, one of said side walls being a tube wall for connection to a plurality of heat exchanger tubes. The header includes a partition wall between the top and bottom walls defining upper and lower regions, the partition being a sheet having a higher central area which extends downward to corners of the upper region. Each corner has a drain aperture for fluid in the upper region to drain by gravity out of the upper region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Dhawi A. Al-Otaibi
  • Patent number: 9777965
    Abstract: Counter-flow heat exchanger is constructed with plenums at either end that separate the opposing fluids, the channels of which are arrayed in a checkerboard patterns, such that any given channel is surrounded by channels of opposing streams on four sides—laterally on both sides and vertically above and below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Thar Energy LLC
    Inventors: Lalit Chordia, John C. Davis
  • Patent number: 9719737
    Abstract: A stub connection for a heat exchanger that is arranged in a housing and has a stack including plates and fins. The housing consists of housing parts which can be joined together, and at least one first stub for a first heat-exchanging medium being integrated directly into the housing. The stub connection also includes at least one second stub for a second heat-exchanging medium that extends to outside the housing. The at least one second stub is configured for the connection of a line and is integrated directly or indirectly into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: Modine Manufacturing Company, Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Kalbacher, Rebecca Frey, Gerrit-Tobias Speidel, Alexander Korn, Heinz BĂĽhl, Karl-Ernst Hummel, Ulrich Dehnen
  • Patent number: 9636916
    Abstract: An ink temperature adjustment device and an inkjet printer include an ink temperature adjustment path connected to a midway point on an ink supply path for supplying ink to an inkjet head configured to form an image by ejecting the ink. The ink temperature adjustment path is for adjusting a temperature of the ink supplied to the inkjet head. The ink temperature adjustment path includes an upflow path for the ink to flow upward and a downflow path for the ink to flow downward. A total cross-sectional area of the upflow path is larger than a total cross-sectional area of the downflow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Akiyama, Asayo Shimoda, Hiroshi Sugitani, Akira Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 9561856
    Abstract: A heat exchanger with at least one cooling segment having a first, a second, and a third portion. A first heat carrier flow path, through which a first heat carrier medium flows, extends through the first portion. A second heat carrier flow path, through which a second heat carrier medium flows, extends through the second portion. A first coolant flow path, through which a first coolant medium flows, extends through the third portion. The heat exchanger comprises at least one cooling body, a second coolant medium flowing through a second coolant flow path extending through the cooling body. The first and the second heat carrier flow paths are thermally coupled, respectively, to the first and the second coolant flow path, to discharge heat energy of at least one of the first and the second heat carrier medium to at least one of the first and the second coolant medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Mevenkamp, Georg Muehlthaler, Sebastian Capistran Zambrano
  • Patent number: 9550226
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat-dissipating device and a method for manufacturing the same. The heat-dissipating device includes a base and a first heat-dissipating fin. The outer periphery of the base has a trough. The first heat-dissipating fin has a first heat-dissipating portion, a first end and a second end. The first end and the second end are disposed in the trough. By a machining process, both ends of the first heat-dissipating fin are pressed into the trough of the base at a high speed, so that the base can be combined with the first heat-dissipating fin rapidly. In this way, the manufacture cost is reduced and the heat-dissipating efficiency is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 9545985
    Abstract: A method for providing an outboard-motor closed-loop cooler system as a retrofit substitute for the midsection and the lower unit of a standard outboard motor, having a substitute closed-loop cooling system with an exterior heat exchanger, a substitute oil reservoir, a substitute exhaust system, and a substitute propulsion system, allowing an existing standard outboard-motor powerhead to be used in conditions not conducive to standard open-loop water cooling, such as shallow-water, muddy-water, obstructed-water, seawater, or corrosive-water conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Brian Provost
  • Patent number: 9482445
    Abstract: A heat pump water heater with a heat utilization balance processor and a heat utilization balance processor thereof relate to a fluid heater using a heat pump and an accessory thereof, the heat pump water heater comprises the heat utilization balance processor; which comprises a housing, a heat exchange pipe, a main heat exchange cavity, a sub heat exchange cavity and a steam-liquid separator. The heat utilization balance exchange is carried out for a working substance through the sub heat exchange cavity of the heat utilization balance processor during a condensing process and an evaporation process, so as to carry out the heat comprehensive utilization, thus increasing condensing effect, decreasing high pressure and exhaust temperature, decreasing the power consumption of a compressor, and increasing the energy efficient of a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: JIANGSU TENESUN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yujun Wang, Tianshu Wang, Jun Liu, Kun Li, Xiaohu Li, Yi Yang, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 9267714
    Abstract: A thermoelectric cooling device comprises a liquid heat exchanger, at least two air heat exchangers, and at least two thermoelectric modules. The liquid heat exchanger includes a liquid circulation path through which liquid coolant flows to exchange heat with the liquid heat exchanger. Air flows over each of the air heat exchangers to exchange heat with the respective air heat exchanger. A first thermoelectric module is thermally coupled on a first side with a first side of the liquid heat exchanger and on a second side with a first air heat exchanger to transfer heat between the air heat exchanger and the liquid heat exchanger. A second thermoelectric module is thermally coupled on a first side with a second side of the liquid heat exchanger and on a second side with the second air heat exchanger to transfer heat between the air heat exchanger and the liquid heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: B/E AEROSPACE, INC.
    Inventors: Kai S. Hou, Qiao Lu, Edward M. Stoebner, Patricia Gary, William Godecker, Eric Mickelson
  • Patent number: 9157683
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of mini-channel tubes. The mini-channel tubes extends for an axial length defined between two manifolds. The mini-channel tubes include a plurality of generally rectangular flow passages. The generally rectangular flow passages are aligned adjacent to each other to define a lateral dimension. A first lateral width of the generally rectangular passages is defined with a ratio of the axial length to the first lateral width being between 201.3 and 215.3. An aircraft system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Doe, Brian R. Shea, Kurt L. Stephens, Matthew William Miller, Michael Zager, Irving C. Ostrander
  • Patent number: 9134070
    Abstract: There is provided a radiator which includes a tank including first and second chambers that are separated from each other, the first and second chambers including first and second openings, respectively, a first tube including first and second ends, the first and second ends communicating with the first and second chambers, respectively, and a second tube being next to the first tube, the second tube including first and second ends communicating with the first and second chambers, respectively, wherein the first chamber includes first and second flow channels that communicate with the first opening, the first and second channels being split so as to sandwich at least part of the second chamber, and the first ends of the first and second tubes sandwich the second ends of the first and second tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Michimasa Aoki, Masumi Suzuki, Yosuke Tsunoda
  • Patent number: 9022101
    Abstract: Arrangement for circulating liquid in a liquid cooler (11) intended particularly for power electronics appliances, inside which cooler at least two longitudinal main ducts (22, 23) are arranged and transverse ducts (21) arranged between them and connecting them, and in which cooler at least one of the longitudinal ducts is an input duct (22), into which liquid from coming from outside is led via an input joint (12) and one is an output duct (23), from where the liquid is led out via the output joint (13), inside which output duct a tubular additional part (41) having an open end at least on the side of the output joint is installed, and which additional part is arranged detached from the output duct such that a gap remains between the outer surface of the additional part and the inner surface of the output duct for enabling a liquid flow in the output duct outside the additional part, and in which arrangement a first aperture or first apertures (P, N, P2) are arranged in the part of the additional part on the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Vacon Oyj
    Inventor: Petri Kamula
  • Patent number: 8991479
    Abstract: A first header tank to which first heat exchange tubes of second and third heat exchange paths are connected and a second header tank to which second heat exchange tubes of a first heat exchange path are connected are provided at the left end of a condenser such that the former is located on the outer side of the latter with respect to a left-right direction and is offset from the latter in an air passage direction. The upper end of the first header tank is located above the lower end of the second header tank. The first header tank has a function of separating gas and liquid and storing the liquid. The first and second heat exchange tubes and side plates are bent in the same direction about a common vertical line. This condenser is suitable for use in a car air conditioner mounted on an automobile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujii, Kazumi Tokizaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Shingo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8967235
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger, especially an exhaust gas heat exchanger, comprising a housing (101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 702, 801, 901, 1101, 1401, 1501, 1901, 2001, 2101, 2201) which can be penetrated by at least one first medium (M1) and at least one second medium (M2), and at least one sealing element (213, 607, 707, 906, 1006, 1011, 1411, 1506, 2205). At least one flow means (217, 1507, 1507a, 1508, 1904, 2005, 2105, 2206, 2206a, 2206b), around which the second medium flows, is provided inside the housing, said flow means improving heat transfer from the first medium to the second medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Uwe Baumann, Heinz Czemmel, Aydin Dogan, Karsten Emrich, Fabrice Frechard, Peter Hafenbrak, Thomas Mitchell, Johannes Pfeffer
  • Patent number: 8869530
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger configured to capture energy by radiation, comprising at least one flag-shaped basic exchanger (10), including: a) an input collector (5) and an output collector (6); b) a plurality of exchange tubes (1) connected to the input collector (5) and to the output collector (6), respectively, and stacked so as to halt the incident radiation, each tube (1) being provided in the form of a hairpin with one curved part at the head of the pin (4) and two arms (2, 3) adjoining essentially vertically and on the largest part of the length thereof, the end of the tubes (1) at the pin head (4) being free and the tubes (1) being self-supported at the ends thereof connected to said collectors (5, 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Cockerill Maintenance & Ingenierie S.A., Abengoa Solar New Technologies S.A.
    Inventors: Alfred Dethier, Elena GarcĂ­a Ramirez
  • Patent number: 8844611
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a plate stacking type heat exchanger including plates having a small longitudinal dimension. In a plate stacking type heat exchanger 100 according to the present invention, an inlet port for low temperature fluid 59a and an outlet port for low temperature fluid 59b are provided on one end side in the longitudinal direction of a plate (left side in FIG. 1). A partition part formed of partition members 10a and 10b is formed in each low temperature fluid compartment 60. The low temperature fluid flows each of the low temperature fluid compartments 60 along a U-turn path that is not short in length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yao, Tatsuhito Yamada
  • Patent number: 8826971
    Abstract: There is disclosed a micro-channel heat exchanger, comprising a first header formed with an inlet; a second header spaced apart from the first header, one of the first and second headers being formed with an outlet; flat tubes, two ends of each flat tube being connected with the first and second headers respectively such that a plurality of micro-channels of each flat tube communicate with the first and second headers; fins, each fin being disposed between two adjacent flat tubes; and a return pipe, a first end of which being connected to the outlet formed in one of the first and second headers and a second end thereof being extended towards the other of the first and second headers. The location of the outlet of the micro-channel heat exchanger is easy to change, and the micro-channel heat exchanger is low in cost, compact in structure and easy to install.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Danfoss Sanhua (Hangzhou) Micro
    Inventors: Lu Xiangxun, Lin-jie Huang
  • Patent number: 8820395
    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: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Cray Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander I. Yatskov
  • Patent number: 8794299
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (10) is provided and in a highly preferred form is an EGR cooler (52) having first and second passes (56A,56B) that are connected to an inlet/outlet manifold (70) by a pair of corresponding thermal expansion joints (87,93) to allow differential thermal expansion between the various structural components of the heat exchanger (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Barfknecht, Biao Yu, LeRoy Goines, Robert J. DeGroot, Peter C. Kottal, Steven P. Meshenky, Dan R. Raduenz
  • Patent number: 8783335
    Abstract: A first header tank to which first heat exchange tubes of third and fourth heat exchange paths are connected and a second header tank to which second heat exchange tubes of first and second heat exchange paths are connected are provided at one end of a condenser. The upper end of the first header tank is located above the lower end of the second header tank. The first header tank has a function of separating gas and liquid and storing the liquid. The first heat exchange tubes have projecting portions at their ends located on the side toward the first header tank. A corrosion prevention member having a function of corroding sacrificially for the first heat exchange tubes is disposed in a clearance between the projecting portion of the upper-end first heat exchange tube and the lower end of the second header tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Shingo Suzuki, Kazumi Tokizaki, Yoshihiko Seno, Takayuki Fujii
  • Patent number: 8776873
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including a first header, a second header, and a third header. The third header includes a first plate including a generally planar face and a second plate including a generally planar face parallel to the planar face of the first plate and joined to the planar face of the first plate. The second plate includes an arcuate recess that extends from the planar face of the second plate to at least partially define a flow conduit between a first tube and a second tube. The arcuate recess has a radius of curvature measured from an axis generally parallel to the planar faces of the first and the second plates, and the axis is located within a first plane generally parallel to and midway between first and second opposing flat broad sides of the first tube and the second tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Greg Mross, Brad Engel, Mark Johnson, Michael Reinke
  • Patent number: 8695689
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that comprises at least two rows of low channels through which a liquid medium can flow, and secondary surfaces arranged between the flow channels and over which air flows, the liquid medium and the air being circulated in the cross-counterflow and the first row being arranged on the air outlet side and the second row on the air inlet side. According to the invention, the liquid medium enters a first region of the first row, is deflected into a second region inside the first row, and from the second region of the first row into the second row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Kohl, Miriam Lozano-Aviles, Thomas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20140090827
    Abstract: The heat exchanger HE comprising a case 2 housing a plurality of heat transfer tubes 1 and a header 3 having a hollow main body 30 with an open edge 33. A side wall 21 of the case 2 is provided with a bulging portion 22 having a cylindrical circumferential wall 22a bulging out of the case 2 and an end wall 22b which blocks a tip portion of the circumferential wall 22a. Each end of the heat transfer tubes 1 is inserted into a penetrating hole 22c provided for the end wall 22b of the bulging portion 22, and is jointed to the end wall 22b, and the open edge 33 of the header 3 is fitted onto the circumferential wall 22a of the bulging portion 22, thereby forming a chamber 36 communicating with the inside of each heat transfer tube 1. Therefore, it is possible that the number of the members of the heat exchanger HE is reduced, the configuration is simplified, and the heat exchanger HE is easily manufactured at low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: NORTIZ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro IGUCHI, Kazuyuki GOTOU, Hideyuki FUJISAWA, Hiroki YAMAJI, Yuta TSUJI
  • Patent number: 8596339
    Abstract: A manifold structure is defined by a pair of stacked plates which define a void: one of these plates has three or more aperture-surrounding bosses which project into the void; the other of these plates has a plurality of protuberances. Each of the protuberances engages between a respective pair of the bosses. A heat exchange element is formed of a plurality of stacked plates, these plates defining a stack of tubes. The tube stack interiorly defines a plurality of U-shaped passages, these passages being distinct from one another. Each tube defines a respective one of the U-shaped passages and is received in plug-fit relation by a respective one of the bosses. The tubes, bosses and protuberances separate the void into a pair of manifolds. Each of the U-shaped passages leads from one of the manifolds to the other of the manifolds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Dana Canada Corporation
    Inventor: Hervé Palanchon
  • Patent number: 8596089
    Abstract: A refrigerant distribution system has a plurality of chambers formed inside a refrigerant distribution plate, each of the plurality of chambers extending from one end of the refrigerant distribution plate into the refrigerant distribution plate; and a plurality of holes formed in each of the plurality of chambers, the plurality of holes fluidly communicating each of the plurality of chambers with an outside of the refrigerant distribution place. The evaporator may be oriented such that the refrigerant flows horizontally with respect to gravity. The present invention may improve the thermal performance of the evaporator while the evaporator is oriented sub-optimally. Often, with horizontal flow through an evaporator, the refrigerant phases, liquid and vapor, may separate in the manifold, resulting in poor distribution of refrigerant in the evaporator core. The refrigerant distribution plate of the present invention evenly distributes the refrigerant in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ranjit Darke, Peter Zheng
  • Patent number: 8590607
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a tube with a heat-exchange passage and an end piece. The heat-exchange passage directs the flow of a first medium and includes a first flow section and a second flow section arranged in parallel. The end piece has a tube plate that includes a base plate, a diverter plate, and a cover plate. An end of the tube connects to the base plate. The diverter plate has a cutout that forms a diverter passage. The cover plate lies adjacent to the diverter plate and covers the diverter passage in a fluid-tight manner. A second medium flows exterior to the heat-exchange passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Demuth, Martin Kotsch, Michael Kranich, Hans Joachim Krauss, Hagen Mittelstrass, Karl-Heinz Staffa, Christoph Walter
  • Patent number: 8578606
    Abstract: There is disclosed a manufacturing method of a heat pipe type heat-dissipating device. The method includes the steps of: winding a pipe on a loop forming mold in a spiral shape to form a pipe loop; and pressing at least a section of an outer circumference of the pipe loop so that the pipe loop is plastically deformed in a shape corresponding to the shape of the loop forming mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Icepipe Corporation
    Inventor: Sang-Cheol Lee
  • Publication number: 20130240191
    Abstract: A communication plate extends along and is sandwiched between cylindrical communication manifolds of a first heat exchanger assembly and a second heat exchanger assembly. The communication plate includes a saddling surface arcuate in one direction and a saddling surface arcuate in the opposite direction for engaging in saddle-like fashion the cylindrical shape of the manifolds. The communication plate defines a plurality of communication plate orifices disposed along the communication plate and aligned co-axial with a plurality of communication orifices disposed along the manifolds to seal the communication orifices of the manifolds and establish distributed and sealed fluid communication between the heat exchanger assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID E. SAMUELSON, DAVID M. SMITH, DON C. CORSER, RICHARD V. COOPER, JR.
  • Publication number: 20130240192
    Abstract: A communication plate extends along and is sandwiched between cylindrical communication manifolds of a first heat exchanger assembly and a second heat exchanger assembly. The communication plate includes a saddling surface arcuate in one direction and a saddling surface arcuate in the opposite direction for engaging in saddle-like fashion the cylindrical shape of the manifolds. The communication plate defines a plurality of communication plate orifices disposed along the communication plate and aligned co-axial with a plurality of communication orifices disposed along the manifolds to seal the communication orifices of the manifolds and establish distributed and sealed fluid communication between the heat exchanger assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID E. SAMUELSON, DAVID M. SMITH, DON C. CORSER, RICHARD V. COOPER, JR.
  • Patent number: 8528629
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (e.g., a charge air cooler) having a cooling body composed of flat tubes arranged at intervals and having corrugated fins positioned in the intervals. The charge air in the flat tubes can be cooled by cooling air flowing through the corrugated fins. The heat exchanger can include a flow connector and an integrated pre-cooler in which a medium, for example charge air, is cooled by means of a coolant. The pre-cooler/post cooler can be integrated into a section of the cooling body. A flow connector composed of at least two tubular parts which can be plugged one into the other, locked and sealed, can include a partitioning wall extending in one of the parts. At least one inlet connection and/or at least one outlet connection can be arranged on one or the other of the parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Klaus Kalbacher
  • Patent number: 8474517
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, such as a condenser or gas cooler, having a collecting tube which has a wall and which can be produced by deformation of a single metal strip, which collecting tube has, in its base, at least one row of openings in which heat exchanger tubes, each of which has two narrow and two wide sides, are fastened at their ends. The collecting tube can have at least two chambers, which adjoin one another approximately at a central longitudinal axis, and also a reinforcement, which is formed by the longitudinal edge strips of the metal strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Modine Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Daniel Borst, Christoph Schiebel, Frank Vetter
  • Patent number: 8464550
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular an evaporator (1), with a plurality of refrigerant-carrying pipes (6, 7) which are arranged next to one another and end in at least one collecting vessel (9), and with at least one cold accumulator (4), in which a cold accumulating medium is provided, wherein the evaporator (1) has two regions arranged parallel to each other, a first region (1?) and a second region (1?), and the cold accumulator (4) is arranged in the second region (1?). In this case, the refrigerant-carrying pipes (6, 7) of the first and second regions (1?,1?) are arranged in line with one another and have a width corresponding to one another (b1, b2, b3), and the first and second regions (1?, 1?) have common, continuous corrugated rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Boris Kerler, Michael Kohl, Ralf Manski, Thomas Strauss, Christoph Walter
  • Patent number: 8464782
    Abstract: A communication plate extends along and is sandwiched between cylindrical communication manifolds of a first heat exchanger assembly and a second heat exchanger assembly. The communication plate includes a saddling surface arcuate in one direction and a saddling surface arcuate in the opposite direction for engaging in saddle-like fashion the cylindrical shape of the manifolds. The communication plate defines a plurality of communication plate orifices disposed along the communication plate and aligned co-axial with a plurality of communication orifices disposed along the manifolds to seal the communication orifices of the manifolds and establish distributed and sealed fluid communication between the heat exchanger assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Samuelson, David M. Smith, Don C. Corser, Richard V. Cooper, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8393860
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including a heat exchanger having a manifold with a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet and a plurality of tubes with interiors fluidly connected to the manifold. In some embodiments, the plurality of tubes and the manifold are configured to fit within a bonnet of a compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventors: Edward S. Czechowski, Andrew Newman, Scott Tackett
  • Patent number: 8371366
    Abstract: An evaporator 1 is configured such that two heat exchange tube groups 16, each composed of a plurality of heat exchange tubes 15, are provided between a pair of header tanks 2, 3, while being separated from each other in a front-rear direction. Each of the header tanks 2, 3 includes two header sections 5, 6, 11, 12. Each header tank 2, 3 includes a first member 21, 93 to which the heat exchange tubes 15 are connected, and a second member 22, 94 which is joined to the first member 21, 93 and covers the side of the first member 21, 93 opposite the heat exchange tubes 15. Partition portions 41, 42 for dividing the interiors of the header section 5, 6, 11, 12 into upper and lower spaces 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b are provided on the second member 22, 94 of the header tank 2, 3. Through holes 47, 51A, 101, 102 for establishing communication between the upper and lower spaces 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b of the header section 5, 6, 11, 12 are formed in the partition portions 41, 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Naohisa Higashiyama, Yukihiro Tsurumi
  • Patent number: 8353330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger and, more particularly, to a heat exchanger which is provided with a discharge part formed by opening of some portion of a partition wall, thereby capable of facilitating discharge of oil, air and foreign substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Halla Climate Control Corp.
    Inventors: Hong-Young Lim, Kwang Hun Oh, Yong Jun Jee, Young-Ha Jeon