Guide Patents (Class 165/78)
  • Patent number: 11454455
    Abstract: A vapor chamber and a heat dissipation device with the vapor chamber are provided. The vapor chamber includes a first plate, a second plate, a first capillary strip, a first communication structure and a working medium. An accommodation space is defined by the first plate and the second plate collaboratively. The first capillary strip is installed in the accommodation space. The accommodation space is divided into a first region and a second region by the first capillary strip. The working medium is accommodated within the accommodation space. The working medium flows between the first region and the second region through the first communication structure. Since the working medium is guided to flow in the accommodation space by the first capillary strip and the first communication structure, the heat dissipating efficacy is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: AURAS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Chen, Chien-Fu Liu, Guan-Cing Liu
  • Patent number: 11397060
    Abstract: A heat exchanger stack includes a rack structure and heat exchangers disposed above one another and supported thereby. Each heat exchanger includes: a frame; a tubing arrangement configured to circulate fluid therein; a plurality of fins; and a plurality of wheels mounted to the frame for guided mounting of the heat exchanger panel on the rack structure including first and second upper wheels spaced apart from one another and first and second lower wheels spaced apart from one another. Each upper wheel engages a corresponding upper wheel guiding member of the rack structure, and each lower wheel engages a horizontal portion of a corresponding lower wheel guiding member of the rack structure so that the heat exchanger panel is translatable horizontally. A method for mounting a heat exchanger panel to a rack structure is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: OVH
    Inventors: Gregory Francis Louis Bauchart, Ali Chehade, Henryk Klaba
  • Patent number: 10731927
    Abstract: A plate-type heat exchanger includes a first heat exchange section and a second heat exchange section that includes a refrigerant flow path independent of the first heat exchange section. Each of the first and second heat exchange sections includes a fixed support supporting heat transfer plates from one end side in an arrangement direction, and a moving support supporting the heat transfer plates at a first support position on the other end side of the arrangement direction. The moving support is moved from the first support position to a retracted position separated in the arrangement direction to form a first removal region between the first support position and a second retracted position, and the heat transfer plates are removed through the first removal region. The first removal region and the second removal region of the second heat exchange section are overlapped with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Tomoaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 10495385
    Abstract: A heat exchange device of a floating core type, having a special configuration which allows increasing its durability as it increases its thermal fatigue resistance. The device is characterized by a configuration having high thermal fatigue resistance due to the special configuration of the end where the floating side of the core is located since stagnation regions that are usually produced in the baffle of the floating end are eliminated by the combination of the shape of the shell and of a deflector. This configuration furthermore results in a low-cost exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Borgwarner Emissions Systems Spain, S.L.U.
    Inventors: José Antonio Grande Fernández, Germán Troncoso
  • Patent number: 10399192
    Abstract: A supporting structure that supports a heat exchanger having a saddle is provided. The supporting structure includes a first supporting structure for supporting the saddle along one end thereof and a second supporting structure for supporting the saddle along another end thereof. The first supporting structure and the second supporting structure are situated spaced apart from each other by at least a distance enabling passage of a transporter for transporting the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CHIYODA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mitarai, Yongwoo Shin
  • Patent number: 10378825
    Abstract: Provided are a heat exchanger apparatus and a heat source unit that are for use in a chiller unit. The heat exchanger apparatus comprises at least one heat exchanger module (100). The heat exchanger module (100) comprises two heat exchanger units (10 and 20) that are oppositely fitted with each other. At least one between the two heat exchanger units (10 and 20) is bent so that an angle between adjacent two edges (c and d) on at least one extremity of the two heat exchanger units (10 and 20) is less than an angle between main parts (12 and 22) of the two heat ex-changer units (10 and 20), thus increasing the area for heat exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Danfoss Micro Channel Heat Exchanger (Jiaxing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Yang, Yang Xu, Jeffery Lee Tucker, Liuxiang Liu
  • Patent number: 9958217
    Abstract: Disclosed is: A casing of a heat recovery steam generator has a sidewall, and heat exchanger coil located therein capable of exchanging heat from hot exhaust gas flow into the casing, with a gap between the end of the coil and a sidewall. A baffle system for closing the gap after the coil is installed in the casing comprises a mount attached to the coil near the gap, and a baffle plate associated with the mount and movably supported thereby. The configuration of the mount and baffle plate are such to allow the baffle plate to be capable of moving from a retracted position withdrawn from the sidewall, to an extended position closing the gap. A retainer can hold the plate in the retracted position. The retainer can release, for example, by being temperature sensitive. The mount can have a support that engages the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NOOTER/ERIKSEN, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Oakes, Daniel C. Osbourne
  • Patent number: 9789748
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle passenger compartment heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning unit casing comprising at least: —an induction chamber (2) the peripheral wall of which forms a volute housing (12) and which is intended to accommodate an impeller of a motor-fan unit, —a distribution chamber (4) connected to an outlet (3) of the induction chamber (2), —distribution channels (5) connected to an outlet of the distribution chamber (4). According to the invention, the casing comprises an internal partition element (15) of which one face forms at least part of the volute housing (12) and of which the opposite face to the volute housing forms one wall of at least one distribution channel (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Philippe Pierres, Jan Liska
  • Patent number: 9612063
    Abstract: There is provided a support for supporting a bundle of exchanger tubes that has plurality of tubes and support plates that engage and support the plurality of tubes. The support has a cradle with a plurality of support surfaces spaced along the length of the cradle to support the bundle of exchanger tubes, a carriage that is movably mounted to a track extending along the length of the cradle such that the carriage traverses at least a portion of the cradle as it moves along the track. The carriage has a receiver portion that moves along the cradle above the support surface and is sized to receive a support plate of the bundle of exchanger tubes, and one or more lifts positioned along the cradle length, the lifts moving vertically between an extended position above the carriage relative to the cradle and a refracted position below the support surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Altex Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Reich, Durwill Dennis, Robert Triplett
  • Patent number: 9551274
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling of charge air for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is provided. The heat exchanger has a preliminary stage, a main stage, and a compensating component. The preliminary stage has at least one preliminary stage fixed bearing base and a preliminary stage floating bearing base. The main stage has at least one main stage fixed bearing base and a main stage floating bearing base. In a heat transfer region of the main stage, at least one main stage channel for a main stage coolant is disposed. The compensating component is configured to compensate a position difference between corresponding components of the preliminary stage and the main stage, whereby the position difference is based on a thermally induced elongation difference between the at least one preliminary stage channel and the at least one main stage channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Eilemann, Matthias Fehrenbach, Ruediger Koelbin, Johann Ehrmanntraut
  • Patent number: 9335099
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (10) comprising a heat-exchange core (12) and a housing (14) inside which the core (12) is housed, the core (12) comprises a stack of plates (16) and the housing (14) comprises a body in at least one first and one second portions. According to the invention, at least one of the portions is in contact with one end of each of the plates (16) of the stack of the core (12). The core (12) is brazed to the housing (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Paul Garret, Philippe Faille
  • Patent number: 9182180
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a clamping device comprising two end plates (2, 7), springs (1), and tension rods (8), wherein the springs (1) are arranged on a supporting element to distribute clamping forces on one or more flow module plates, one or more reactor plates, one or more heat exchanger plates, or combinations thereof, which plates (6) are placed between the two end plates (2, 7). The present invention relates also to a method for opening and closing a plate reactor or a flow module, and uses of the clamping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Alfa Laval Corporate AB
    Inventors: Kasper Höglund, Tommy Norén, Magnus Lingvall
  • Patent number: 9046310
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plate heat exchanger for treatment of a medium, comprising a number of compression-molded heat exchanger plates, which are successively provided in a plate package and which form first plate interspaces and second plate interspaces, wherein the first plate interspaces and the second plate interspaces are provided in an alternating order in the plate package, where the inlet and outlets of the heat exchanger plate located in a center portion of the plate heat exchanger, and where the plate package is arranged between end plates on each side of the plate package, where at least one of the end plates are provided with connections in a center portion of the at least one end plate and that the location of the connections on the at least one end plate correspond to the location of the inlet and outlets of the heat exchanger plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventors: Hjalmar Joensen, Göran Paulsson
  • 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: 8955578
    Abstract: A heat exchanger usable with a ventilator, the heat exchanger having an improved structure so that air passing through the heat exchanger may be prevented from leaking. The heat exchanger of the general inventive concept includes a heat-exchanging element having a plurality of liners stacked in a uniformly spaced state and a plurality of spacers disposed between the liners to define air passages, and corner guides respectively coupled to corners of the heat-exchanging element. Each of the corner guides includes a guide channel forming a space to receive the corner of the heat-exchanging element so that the corner guides securely come into close contact with the heat-exchanging element, and to minimize a loosening of the corner guide due to an adhesive applied between the heat-exchanging element and the corner guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Young-Chul Kwon, Sung Woo Kim, Euy Sung Chu, Jee Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 8944147
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger, fins are simply and accurately positioned in place and heat is efficiently exchanged without increasing manufacture cost, and the plurality of corrugated plate-like fins are disposed in the flow direction of a coolant in a housing. The heat exchanger has: connecting parts, which connect together the adjacent fins among the fins; protrusions formed on the connecting parts; and positioning holes for positioning the fins formed in the housing. The adjacent fins are disposed at predetermined intervals in the coolant flow direction with a predetermined offset amount in the direction that orthogonally intersects the coolant flow direction by fitting the protrusions in the positioning holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuya Takano, Yasuji Taketsuna, Eisaku Kakiuchi, Katsuhiko Tatebe, Masahiro Morino, Tomohiro Takenaga
  • Patent number: 8869876
    Abstract: A case for a heating, ventilating and cooling system may include a shell and a plurality of fins. The shell may define an interior volume and may include an air inlet, a first air outlet and a second air outlet. The interior volume may define an airflow path between the air inlet and the first and second air outlets. The shell may be in fluid communication with a blower. The plurality of fins may be disposed in the airflow path between the air inlet and the first and second outlets. The plurality of fins may extend into the interior volume to distribute a first predetermined airflow amount to the first air outlet and a second predetermined airflow amount to the second air outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. DiGasbarro, Simon Kehimkar
  • 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: 8616265
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cooler assembly for a vehicle cooling system, with a cooling unit pivotally attached to a retaining element. The retaining element is slidable in a lengthwise direction along a guide element which is attached to the cooling system, so that the cooling unit can be moved from an operating position by sliding and subsequent pivoting into a maintenance and cleaning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Thomas Fell, Andreas Keim, Duong M Le
  • Patent number: 8613140
    Abstract: A heat sink composed of a fin set and a seat and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. One side of the fin set is provided with a plurality of rail rods whose cross sections are of a hook shape. One side of the seat is formed with a plurality of slots corresponding to the rail rods. Thus the fin set and the seat can be assembled by engagement of the rail rods and slots. A press mold is employed to press the rail rods and the slots, thus the rail rods and slots are deformed to make the fin set and seat tightly engage with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Inventor: Shyh-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 8544529
    Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a set of plates defining between them circuits for a fluid flowing alternately via seals mounted between each pair of two adjacent plates. Each plate including at least one guiding cut formed at least at one of the ends thereof for guiding each plate inside a frame. The exchanger also includes between each pair of two adjacent plates, and in proximity to the guiding cut, at least one strut to be compressed and in contact with the two adjacent plates. Each strut has, before compression, a thickness at least equal to that of the seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Alfa Laval Viacarb
    Inventors: Olivier Noel-Baron, Christophe Wibaut
  • Patent number: 8499824
    Abstract: A heat sink assembly comprises a base having one or more slots, and further comprises one or more fins, each having an end configured for insertion into a respective one of the slots. Each fin end has a first surface that is configured for conformally engaging a first slot sidewall for good thermal conduction from the base into the fin, and has a second surface configured for cold welding to a second slot sidewall for good mechanical fastening of the fin to the base. The combined thermal bonding and cold-welding engagement are produced by pressing the fin ends of the fins into the base slots at a controlled pressing rate. Further, leading and/or trailing edges of the fins may be beveled to improve airflow directed edgewise across the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Elektronische Bauelemente Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventor: Hans Peter Peschl
  • Patent number: 8474513
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-conditioning system (1), especially an automotive air-conditioning system, which comprises a multi-part air conduction housing (1) and components disposed therein, such as at least one heater (H: h). The air conduction housing (1), in the area of at least one component, is configured as a replacement part, especially in the form of a part to be pushed in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Evripidis Koukouravas, Michael Roth
  • Patent number: 8464779
    Abstract: A heat radiating fin assembly is formed from alternately stacked first and second heat radiating fins. The first and the second heat radiating fins each are provided on at least one lateral side with a projected point and a receded point, respectively, to thereby define an airflow guiding section on at least one longitudinal side of the heat radiating fin assembly. The airflow guiding section includes a first and a second airflow inlet, and a middle airflow inlet located between the first and the second airflow inlet. The heat radiating fin assembly can be associated with at least one heat pipe and a base to form a thermal module. The airflow guiding section enables widened airflow inlets, shortened airflow paths, reduced airflow pressure drop and flowing resistance, and upgraded cooling air flowing efficiency, so that the heat radiating fin assembly and the thermal module can provide excellent heat dissipating effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Beijing AVC Technology Research Center Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng-Huang Lin
  • Patent number: 8448695
    Abstract: A heat dissipating apparatus includes a heat sink, a fan, and an airflow guide. The heat sink includes a conducting base board and a number of parallel fins vertically extending from the conducting base board. An air intake and an air outlet are defined in opposite ends of the heat sink. The airflow guide includes a mounting cover accommodating the heat sink, and a guiding element connected to the mounting cover. The fan is mounted to the mounting cover and at the air intake of the heat sink. The guiding element is arranged at the air outlet of the heat sink. The guiding element includes a guiding board. An angle between the guiding board and the fins at the air outlet is less than 90 degrees and more than 0 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xian-Xiu Tang, Zhen-Xing Ye
  • Publication number: 20130098580
    Abstract: An insertable, removable cooling coil in a heat exchange unit includes a heat exchange housing and one or more cooling coils in a heat exchange assembly in the housing. The housing is a pre-assembled housing having one or more respective recesses for insertion or removal of each respective cooling coil of the one or more cooling coils therein. Each cooling coil is slidably insertable upon side angle profile supports within the respective recesses of the heat exchange housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventor: Walter Stark
  • Patent number: 8333234
    Abstract: A casing (1) is dedicated to housing a heat exchanger (3) in a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning installation, for example of a motor vehicle. The heat exchanger (3) comprises an air inlet face (12), an air outlet face (13), a rear end face (15), a front end face (14), and at least one side face (16, 17) capped with a radiator tank (4, 5). The casing (1) comprises side walls (18, 19) defining at least one housing to receive at least one part of the radiator tank (4, 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Climatisation
    Inventors: Philippe Vincent, Thomas Carton, Gilbert Terranova
  • Patent number: 8291964
    Abstract: An exemplary heat sink includes elongated fins stacked together. Each of the fins includes a first dissipating portion and a second dissipating portion arranged in turn along a longitudinal axis of the fin. The first dissipating portion and the second dissipating portion of each fin are offset from each other along a stacked axis of the fins. An opening is defined in each fin between the first dissipating portion and the second dissipating portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Furui Precise Component (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Bai Hwang, Jian-Zhong Lu
  • Patent number: 8256497
    Abstract: A thermal energy exchanger assembly (100) includes an exchanger housing (138). The exchanger housing (138) houses a pair of core support assemblies (174) formed of individual core supports (200). The core supports (200) are coupled together so as to form apertures 228. Core tubes (180) are received within the apertures (228). A fresh airstream (122) is made to flow through the core tubes (180) while a stale airstream (114) is made to flow between and around the core tubes (180). In this manner, an exchange of thermal energy occurs between the fresh airstream (122) and the stale airstream (114).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Inventor: John Gietzen
  • Patent number: 8235098
    Abstract: A flat tube for a heat exchanger having a stack of such flat tubes. The flat tube has a plurality of spaced-apart dimples formed on each of its opposite faces. At least some of the dimples on each face have an elongate plan shape, at least some of the elongate dimples being obliquely oriented such that their major axes form oblique angles with a longitudinal axis of the tube. The obliquely oriented elongate dimples are positioned such that when two of the tubes are stacked, the obliquely oriented elongate dimples on opposing faces of the tubes contact one another and the major axes of each contacting pair of elongate dimples are non-parallel to each other. Each contacting pair of elongate dimples of adjacent tubes thus forms a “cross” or “X”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Agee
  • Patent number: 8118081
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device (100) includes a fin assembly (10) having a plurality of fins (12). Each fin includes a locking tab (126b) with a connecting end (1268), a free end (1269), a hole (1261) adjacent to the connecting end, a hook (1262) adjacent to the free end, and a tongue (1263) between the hole and the hook. A punched hole (127b) in each fin is adjacent to the locking tab, which extends through the punched hole of an adjacent fin. The hook of the locking tab engages the hole in the locking tab of the adjacent fin, locking them together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin-Xiang Zha, Jer-Haur Kuo
  • Patent number: 8096347
    Abstract: A cooler block for an agricultural tractor comprising a cooler assembly mounted on a radiator and coupled to the radiator by upper and lower linkages. The cooler assembly can be moved between a first position in which the cooler assembly lies parallel to the radiator and a second position in which the cooler assembly is inclined relative to the radiator. The cooler assembly is pivotable about a pivot in the upper linkage that is itself movable relative to the radiator. The lower linkage allows the entire cooler assembly to rise and the pivot of the upper linkage to move away from the radiator as the cooler assembly is pivoted from the first to the second position. A detent is incorporated into one of the two linkages to retain the cooler assembly in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: William P. Starkey, Timothy Oldland, Todd Richard
  • Patent number: 8087455
    Abstract: A rib plate type heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange core consisting of rib plate type heat exchange plates. A surrounding edge of the rib plate type heat exchange plate is formed as a sealing bevel. The rib plate type heat exchange plate comprises the first end zone, the second end zone and a central heat exchange zone. The first and second distribution zones are provided in the first and the second end zones respectively. The central heat exchange zone and first and second distribution zones are arranged on a same plane and are extended in the height of a lower plate plane. Heat exchange ribs and flow guide ribs are provided in the central heat exchange zone and the distribution zones respectively. Corner holes which are surrounded by adjacent edge zones at the upper plate plane height and lower plate plane height are provided in the first end zone and the second end zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Wuxi Hongsheng Heat Exchanger Co.
    Inventors: Zhixian Miao, Xiang Ling, Faqing Niu
  • Patent number: 8056614
    Abstract: A modular heat sink including a first heat sink and a second heat sink is disclosed. The first heat sink includes a first base having a female connecting part and a first fin assembly disposed on the first base. The second heat sink is connected to the first heat sink and includes a second base having a male connecting part for coupling the female connecting part and a second fin assembly disposed on the second base. The male connecting part is coupled with the female connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: AMA Precision Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Chu Chen, Ching Ho
  • Patent number: 8002023
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for exchanging heat through a heat transfer plate by flowing a primary air current and a secondary air current to a ventilation path. An unit element including the heat transfer plate, and the ventilation path formed between the heat transfer plates by stacking the unit element in plural are arranged. The unit element is configured by integrally molding a spacing rib for holding a spacing of the heat transfer plate, and a shield rib for shielding leakage of the air current with resin. Furthermore, the unit element includes a stacking error detecting unit for determining a stacking error when stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Murayama
  • Patent number: 7918266
    Abstract: An evaporator 1 includes a refrigerant inlet header section 5 and a refrigerant outlet header section 6 which are arranged in the front-rear direction, a refrigerant circulation passage for establishing fluid communication between the header sections 5 and 6. First ends of the header sections 5 and 6 are closed with a first cap 19 and the second ends thereof are closed with a second cap 18. A refrigerant inlet 37 and a refrigerant outlet are formed in the first cap 19. A pipe joint member 21, having a refrigerant inflow port 45 communicating with the refrigerant inlet 37 and a refrigerant outflow port 46 communicating with the refrigerant outlet 38, is joined to the first cap 19. Mating concave portions 19a and 19b are formed on the first cap 19. Mating convex portions 21a and 21b which project toward the first cap 19 and which are to be fitted into the mating concave portions 19a and 19b, respectively, are formed on the pipe joint member 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Kouta Arino, Hideo Ohhashi
  • Patent number: 7845391
    Abstract: Sharp bends in a defrost duct extending from a defrost outlet to a windshield, and in a face duct extending from a face outlet to both sides of a front passenger seat, are eliminated and the duct resistance of these ducts is reduced. Moreover collision safety of passengers is improved, and an interior space of a vehicle is expanded forward. In an air-conditioning unit to be positioned to the front of a front seat of a vehicle, an evaporator is positioned below and behind a blower, and a heater core is positioned below and in front of the blower. Preferably the air-conditioning unit is of a crushable structure wherein, in the event of a vehicle collision, a wall of the main cover behind the evaporator is broken, or component parts housed within the main cover are moved, to thereby absorb the impact energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhide Kawahara, Soichiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 7841384
    Abstract: A casing (1) is dedicated to housing a heat exchanger (3) in a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning installation, for example of a motor vehicle. The heat exchanger (3) comprises an air inlet face (12), an air outlet face (13), a rear end face (15), a front end face (14), and at least one side face (16, 17) capped with a radiator tank (4, 5). The casing (1) comprises side walls (18, 19) defining at least one housing to receive at least one part of the radiator tank (4, 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Climatisation
    Inventors: Philippe Vincent, Thomas Carton, Gilbert Terranova
  • Patent number: 7837954
    Abstract: A set of prefabricated tube bundle reactor subassemblies is proposed which are adapted to be assembled at a construction site to provide a tube bundle reactor for carrying out catalytic gas and/or liquid phase reactions. In accordance with the invention, the reactor shell and the reactor heads, on the one hand, and the tube bundle and the tube sheets, on the other hand, form separate subassemblies, more specifically at least one shell/head subassembly, at least one head subassembly, and at least one tube bundle subassembly. The subassemblies comprise means for vertically supporting the tube bundle subassembly and for pressure tightly connecting the shell/head subassembly to the tube sheets without requiring heat treatment during assembly of the subassemblies. Likewise proposed are a tube bundle reactor for carrying out catalytic gas and/or liquid phase reactions and an arrangement of the kind of tube bundle reactors mentioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Man DWE GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Lehr
  • Patent number: 7775265
    Abstract: A cooling system for a reciprocating engine includes a main cooling device and a side tank. The main cooling device includes at least one heat dissipation tube that contains an internal fluid for transporting excess heat developed by a reciprocating engine. The side tank is attached to the main cooling device and includes a plurality of exterior fins for dissipating heat to cool airflow. The exterior fins form an adjustable mounting location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Flex-A-Lite Consolidated, Inc.
    Inventor: Lisa L. Chissus
  • Patent number: 7743817
    Abstract: A thermal module includes a fixing rack and a heat sink fitted in the fixing rack. The fixing rack is provided at an inner side with at least one stopper and at least one projected portion adjacent to and vertically lower than the stopper by distance. The heat sink is provided along an outer periphery at a predetermined position with at least one vertically extended groove. By vertically turning the heat sink by 180 degrees, the heat sink may be selectively fitted in the fixing rack with an upward-facing side thereof upward abutted on the upper stopper or the lower projected portion to restrict the fixing rack from sliding downward. Meanwhile, due to the height difference between the stopper and the projected portion, a distance between the upward-facing side of the heat sink and the fixing rack is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng-Huang Lin
  • Patent number: 7708052
    Abstract: A coil support suitable for supporting a coil in a condensing unit includes a body and a protrusion extending from the body. The protrusion is configured to limit movement of the coil in at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Derek A. Leman, Christopher J. Ingermann, Loren D. Hoffman, Frank J. David, John A. Wade, Larry D. Burns, Nancy O. Ashcraft, Brian L. DePerro
  • Patent number: 7697294
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device adapted for dissipating heat from a heat-generating electronic element, includes a plurality of fins assembled together. Each of the fins has a rectangular body and four arch-shaped flanges extending from edges of the body to form four round corners in four corners of the body. Each main body of the fins defines a plurality of locking members thereon to engage with corresponding locking members of a corresponding front fin. The arch-shaped flanges in four respective corners of the fins cooperate with each other to form four arced faces in four corners of the assembled fins along an entire length of the assembled fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignees: Fu Zhun Precision Industry (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wu Li, Yi-Qiang Wu, Chun-Chi Chen
  • Patent number: 7669640
    Abstract: A casing houses a heat exchanger in a vehicle HVAC system. The heat exchanger includes air inlet and air outlet faces, rear end and front end faces, and first and second side faces. The side faces are each capped with a radiator tank comprising a front end. Each radiator tank defines an orifice for connection to a heat transfer fluid supply circuit. The casing includes a front end wall defining an opening opposite the front end face of the heat-exchanger. The casing also includes a cover defining at least two passages adapted to suit the orifices of the radiator tanks and fixedly attached to the front end wall. The cover also includes seals for limiting the outlet of air via the opening and/or the passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Climatisation S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Vincent, Gilbert Terranova, Thomas Carton
  • Publication number: 20090194253
    Abstract: A sectional modular heat sink is formed from a plurality of stacked modular heat radiating units, each of which is provided on one side along at least one longitudinal edge with a pair of arm portions, each of which being vertically extended or upward and outward inclined; and on an opposite side with a U-shaped or a V-shaped channel corresponding to the pair of arm portions. A horizontally extended flange is provided along a free edge of each arm portion, and a horizontally extended groove is provided along each of two innermost edges of the channel corresponding to the flanges on the arm portions. When two modular heat radiating units are stacked, the arm portions and the flanges on a first modular heat radiating unit respectively engage with the channel and the grooves on a second modular heat radiating unit to firmly connect the two units to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Hang Shen
  • Patent number: 7461686
    Abstract: A heat dissipating device comprises a plurality of fins. An upper side and a lower side of each fin is folded with folding sheets. Each of two sides of each sheet is protruded with a buckling ear. The buckling ear is formed by a triangular sheet and a support plate. The support plate is connected to one apex of the triangular sheet and the folding sheet. A hole is formed on the folding sheet and is located behind the buckling ear. The shape of the hole is corresponding to that of the buckling ear. A tenon is formed at two lateral walls of the hole and a middle section of the tenon is protruded with a semi-round section. Further, the buckling ear may have a T shape or the triangular sheet can be replaced by a round sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Li Yo Precision Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li-Wei Fan Chiang
  • Patent number: 7415764
    Abstract: A construction of recuperator core segments is provided which insures proper assembly of the components of the recuperator core segment, and of a plurality of recuperator core segments. Each recuperator core segment must be constructed so as to prevent nesting of fin folds of the adjacent heat exchanger foils of the recuperator core segment. A plurality of recuperator core segments must be assembled together so as to prevent nesting of adjacent fin folds of adjacent recuperator core segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Capstone Turbine Corporation
    Inventors: Yungmo Kang, Robert D. McKeirnan, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7416018
    Abstract: The present invention relates to arrangement for a plate heat exchanger for connection to a system, of which the plate heat exchanger is designed to form part. The plate heat exchanger is of conventional construction with plates (2) parallel to one another, which constitute a package (1) and between them define flow channels. The outermost plates (2a, 2b) of the package (1) are at each short end partially covered by plate elements (6a, 6b), which essentially lie within the width of the package (1), of which the plate element (6a) situated nearest the system has throughholes (7) for assembly elements, which can be inserted into the holes (7) from above, since he pates (2) are formed with recesses (8). At each short end there are also clamping elements which effectively act between the plate elements (6a, 6b) and are designed to produce a symmetrical clamping force and to hold the package (1) together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Valeo Engine Cooling AB
    Inventors: Peter Thunwall, Hakan Nilsson, Lennart Danielsson
  • Publication number: 20080179043
    Abstract: A heat sink fin with joining structure is provided, the heat sink fin is joined with and spaced from other heat sink fins mutually, so as to from a heat sink. The heat sink fin includes a plate and at least one inserting piece. The plate has at least one inserted slot formed in the plate near an edge thereof. The inserting piece extends from the edge of the plate corresponding to the inserted slot and has a buckled hole and a deformable buckling portion. The position of the inserted slot is corresponding to that of the inserting piece of another heat sink fin, and the inserted slot is provided for the inserting piece of the neighboring heat sink fin to be inserted into, and then the buckling portion of the heat sink fin is deformed and buckled into the buckled hole of the neighboring heat sink fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Cooler Master Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-Chung Ho
  • Patent number: 7377306
    Abstract: Each of fins is provided with an engage projection having a first width and a engage hole portion having a second width wider than the first width, and the fins are able to be slid while engaging with each other. Accordingly, in case of installing a heat sink to a case of a fan, it is possible to install the fins to the case so that the fins are arranged in a flowing direction of a refrigerant by the fan while engaging with each other. As the result, the refrigerant is able to flow smoothly when passing through the fins by arranging the fins at desired angle. Accordingly, it becomes possible to present a radiation fin, a cooling device and an electronic equipment having such cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toshio Hashimoto