Abstract: A combination oil filter and oil cooler assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a housing mounted to one side of the engine's cylinder block and having provisions for conducting engine coolant and engine oil to and from the engine block to heat exchanger and filter elements incorporated in the assembly. A generally cylindrical heat exchanger mounted within the housing receives the engine coolant and oil and transfers heat from the oil to the coolant. An oil filter mounted to one end of the heat exchanger filters oil before the oil passes through the heat exchanger and into the engine block.

Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly (10) includes a radiator section (25) with an helical coil tube (62) mounted within an outlet tank chamber (21) of a radiator tank (26). Oil flows through the helical coil tube to be cooled by coolant within the chamber (21). The oil then flows to an air-to-oil cooler (76) that is integrally mounted to either the radiator or a condenser (30) whereby the oil is further cooled.

Abstract: An oil cooler unit is described for use in combination with an internal combustion engine to cool the oil in the engine. The oil cooler can be threaded onto the oil filter mounting plate, and an oil filter can be threaded onto the opposite end of the oil cooler. As heated oil proceeds through the cooler, heat is dissipated through fins secured to the body of the oil cooler unit.

Abstract: An oil filtering and cooling device for use with an internal combustion engine is disclosed. It is composed of few components and easily fitted on or retrofitted to an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment, a pressure valve is employed to direct oil away from a cooling function yet allow for filtering thereof. The valve is a reed valve.

Abstract: A cooling device includes a liquid chamber having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet. A bent pipe includes a straight tubular heat pipe component provided extending from the inside to the outside of the liquid chamber. A spiral heat pipe component communicating with the straight tubular heat pipe component and extending to surround the same spirally is provided. In an internal space where the spiral heat pipe component and the straight tubular heat pipe component communicate with each other, a working fluid serving as a heat carrier is sealed. An ultrasonic motor for rotating integrally the straight tubular heat pipe component and the spiral heat pipe component is provided. A radiating fin structure is provided on the straight tubular heat pipe component positioned outside the liquid chamber. As a result, it is possible to make the device lighter, smaller and more reliable without decreasing the cooling performance as compared to conventional cooling devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved energy exchange structure, comprising generally parallel plates,connected to define a hollow passageway for the generally circumferential flow of fluid between an inlet and an outlet, said plates undulating in cross-section to define obliquely disposed crossing opposing valleys arranged in a spiral disposition.

Abstract: The inlet and outlet passages communicating with a water-cooled engine oil cooler for a vehicle, such as a motorcycle, are arranged for bypass of a regulated amount of oil from the inlet passage to the outlet passage to enhance the flowability of the cooled oil. Provision is made for a replaceable flow control orifice between the oil inlet and outlet passages to regulate oil viscosity. Also described is an arrangement providing for mounting the cooler to the crankcase or oil pan surface whereby air flowing past the cooler during movement of the vehicle assists the effects of the cooling liquid.

Abstract: An oil cooling device for a motorcycle engine operating by convection heat transfer with air outside the device. A fin arrangement may be included to enhance the rate of heat exchange. The device conforms to forward portions of the motorcycle frame. The location of the device allows air needed to cool the engine to flow by the device uninhibited. This location is also unobtrusive and thus does not detract from the motorcycle's overall appearance. The oil cooling device is activated by a thermovalve which opens whenever a chosen temperature range is attained. This device could be incorporated into a motorcycle at manufacture or be configured for addition to a motorcycle to improve oil cooling as an auxiliary oil cooler.

Abstract: Known disk oil coolers, when they are to be used without an oil filter, are provided with a separate housing cover which, by means of a sealing device, is disposed on a ring surface of the housing and is held on the housing by way of a hollow screw. These constructions require a large amount of space. It is disclosed to provide the hollow screw, on the side of the driving surfaces for a screwing tool directed toward the housing, with an end disk which is provided with a sealing surface resting against an annular wall of the housing. On the side of the end disk facing the housing, an opening is provided which leads into the interior of the hollow screw. This hollow screw may be used instead of the hollow screw to be provided for the use with the filter. Elaborate modifications or other housings are not required.

Abstract: An oil/water heat exchanger for a motor vehicle has an inlet tube branch and an outlet tube branch joined to the body of the heat exchanger. Each of these tube branches has a bent portion close to the heat exchanger body. The transverse cross section of the bent portion is flattened (elongated), with its minor dimension extending in the direction of the radius of curvature of the longitudinal axis of the tube branch. This enables this radius, and therefore also the amount by which the tube branches project from the tube body, to be reduced for a given fluid passage cross sectional area.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved energy exchange structure, comprising generally parallel plates, joined to define a hollow passageway for the generally circular flow of fluid between an inlet and an outlet, said plates undulating in cross-structure to define obliquely disposed crossing opposing valleys, and comprising multiple sets of generally parallel valleys and an involute disposition of said valleys.

Abstract: An automotive radiator has a tank containing a transmission oil cooler which has a double walled tubular configuration for heat transfer from oil circulating between the walls to the engine coolant through its outer wall and its inner wall. Engine coolant flows from radiator heat exchange tubes into the tank and around and through the cooler to a discharge port. To optimize the efficiency of the cooler, a baffle is inserted in the tank to direct most of the coolant flow in the tank through the oil cooler for heat transfer from the inner wall.

Abstract: Known disk oil coolers, which are surrounded by a plastic covering, require high expenditures during manufacturing because the sealing-off with respect to the front-side connections of the covering must take place by soldering. A pot-shaped housing is disclosed with a lid made of plastic which is welded together and into which, on both sides, sealing devices are fitted for the sealing-off of the stack of disks, in which case the design is such that, after the welding-together, the sealing devices are each prestressed.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a casing formed with two adjacent apertures to which two tubular pipe connections are secured.The apertures in the casing are so configured as to act as one half of a bayonet fitting, the other half of each bayonet fitting being a bayonet end portion fixed to each pipe connection. These bayonet end portions are adapted to be put into a locking position on the apertures, and are provided with base portions which are configured according to the spacing between the two apertures. The base portions have stop means which are arranged to cooperate with each other to lock the end portions in position when both of the latter are in their locking position. The invention is especially applicable to motor vehicle engine oil coolers.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a casing formed with two adjacent apertures, and two tubular pipe connections are mounted on the casing so as to communicate with these apertures in the latter.The two pipe connection are fixed with respect to a common base plate which is fastened to the casing by snap-fitting means, with the base plate having two orifices which communicate respectively with the two pipe connections and which are arranged to be aligned with the apertures in the casing, a sealing member being interposed between the base plate and the casing. The invention is especially applicable to radiators for cooling motor vehicle engine lubricating oil.

Abstract: An improvement in circumferential flow heat exchangers of the type having a stack of heat exchange units each formed from first and second thin plates having grooves and ribs, wherein the grooves and ribs on facing surfaces of the first and second plates of a unit cross one another and cooperate to define a first flow path extending once about the interior of such unit through less than about one circumscription and grooves and ribs on facing surfaces of first and second plates of adjacent units cross one another and cooperate to define a second flow path, characterized in that the first and second plates of each unit are configured to provide the second flow path with a cross-sectional area exceeding the cross-sectional area of the first flow path.

Abstract: The gist of the present invention consists in an oil cooler for an automatic transmission, wherein opposite corners in a rectangular core made of a plurality of stacked plates are provided with a plate side oil passages, which are connected via an oil tank formed projectingly to the front side of the core, to oil inflow and outflow stud bolts. In the present invention, the opposite corners in the core are provided with plate side oil passages, which are connected via the oil tank formed projectingly to the front side of the core, to oil inflow and outflow stud bolts, which permits the whole core to be supplied with oil.

Abstract: Soldered disk oil coolers are made using two disk plate which are stacked on one another for forming a hollow body, and are connected by soldering their outer edges. The individual disk bodies are constructed of two plates of a circular or elliptic shape in such a manner that their edges overlap one another and are in this case adapted to one another such that the outer edge is lockingly and under tension held at the inner edge of the other plate.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger apparatus comprising a main heat exchanger having a water box with a secondary heat exchanger inside the water box, the secondary heat exchanger includes two coupling tubes passing sealingly through a wall of the water box. The secondary heat exchanger is secured to the water box by means of these coupling tubes. Each coupling tube is carried on the secondary heat exchanger by being introduced into an access hole in the wall, and being secured in a base ring of the secondary heat exchanger. Each coupling tube has a deformable terminal portion which is upset so as to expand it radially in a hole formed in the base ring.

Abstract: A plate type heat exchanger, for effecting heat transfer between a first fluid and a second fluid, comprises a casing having an inlet and an outlet for the second fluid. A stack of plate elements is arranged within the housing, the plate elements being arranged in opposed pairs to define flow passages for the first fluid and flow passages for the second fluid, with means gving communication between the successive first fluid passages. In addition, at least one cross wall is disposed parallel to the plates within the casing, so as to divide the casing into at least two chambers, with the second fluid inlet being open into one chamber and second fluid outlet into another chamber, the cross wall having an opening for enabling the second fluid to flow from one chamber to the other.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for insertion in a tank which forms part of a vehicle cooler, has a plurality of stacked, flat tubes which consist of a first and a second tube half provided each with one circumferential edge flange, said flanges scalingly engaging with one another and forming a lap joint, and which have at each end a hole to establish communication between the tubes and to form an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber for the fluid to be cooled. The lap joint extends in the direction of the tube thickness in order to form a tube, the inner width of which differs from the outer width by the formulab.sub.i =b.sub.y -4twhereinb.sub.i =the inner width of the tube,b.sub.y =the outer width of the tube, andt=the thickness of the edge flange.

Abstract: Heat exchanger apparatus for a motor vehicle engine comprises a main heat exchanger having a water box containing a secondary heat exchanger that includes two coupling tubes, which extend sealingly through a side wall of the water box. The secondary heat exchanger is secured in the latter by means of these tubes, each fitted to the secondary heat exchanger by being introduced successively through an access orifice formed in the water box side wall and then into a seating formed in the secondary heat exchanger. The water box side wall carries at least one slide inside the water box, and the secondary heat exchanger has at least one sliding element which slides in the slide so as to enable the secondary heat exchanger to be precisely positioned within the water box, so that the two coupling tubes can then be fitted.

Abstract: An offset strip fin for use in compact automotive heat exchangers is disclosed. The offset strip fin has multiple transverse rows of corrugations extending in the axial direction wherein the corrugations in adjacent rows overlap in order that the oil boundary layer is continually re-started. The fin dimensions have been optimized in order to achieve superior ratio of heat transfer to pressure drop along the axial direction. In one aspect, an compact concentric tube heat exchanger has an offset strip fin located in an annular fluid flow passageway located between a pair of concentric tubes. The preferred range of lanced lengths is determined to be between 0.035" to 0.075" for periodically developed flow. Maintaining the lanced length in the regime of periodically developed flow is advantageous in that it gives a higher heat transfer coefficient than is achievable with fully developed flow.

Abstract: A core for a housingless oil cooler has alternate cooling water passageways and oil passageways, including two sets of aluminum plates coated on one side with a sacrificial corrosion layer and on the other side with a brazing filler metal layer, each plate having a peripheral rim projecting from the outer periphery. The plates of the first and second sets are assembled alternately and arranged so that the brazing filler metal layer coated on each plate of the first set is adjacent to the sacrificial corrosion layer of the next plate of the first set and the plates of the second set have a sacrificial corrosion layer opposed to the sacrificial corrosion layer of the adjacent plate of the first set to define a cooling water passageway therebetween, and the brazing filler metal layer on the outer surface of the peripheral rim of the plates of the second set is bonded to the inner surface of the peripheral rim of the adjacent plate of the first set.

Abstract: In order to eliminate components and fixtures, facilitate assembly, avoid leaks, and reduce cost in a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between two fluids such as a coolant and oil, the heat exchanger includes a header plate having a central opening defined by a column integrally formed with the header plate together with a radial opening. A plurality of heat exchange units are stacked on the header plate. The heat exchange units each comprise a pair of plates joined together at inner and outer peripheral edges to thereby sealingly define a plurality of first chambers for the flow of one of the fluids wherein a column-receiving opening is provided radially inwardly of the first chambers thereof.

Abstract: A heat exchanger (4) for cooling a machine, such as a mechanical gear or some other transmission component, hydraulic pump, motor or clutch, compressor, internal combustion engine or like machine, which comprises a housing (1) in which movable, mechanical elements (2), which are driven when the machine is working, are housed, and which encloses a liquid medium (3), such as a lubricating or hydraulic liquid. The heat exchanger is mounted in the outer wall (5) of the housing and comprises two chambers (6, 7) which are mutually separated by a liquid-impervous partition wall (8) which comprises part of the housing wall. The inwardly located chamber (7) is through-passed by the liquid medium (3) enclosed in the housing, while the outwardly located chamber (6) is through-passed by a cooling medium.

Abstract: Baffles are arranged relative to an oil cooler mounted in one of the tanks of a motor vehicle radiator so as to force coolant through the oil cooler rather than allow coolant to bypass same for enhanced heat transfer.

Abstract: A transmission oil cooler has spaced elongated plates secured at the margins and ports at either end to define an oil flow channel. A center disposed between the plates for creating turbulence in the oil and enhancing heat transfer comprises a metal sheet folded to form generally planar fins in side-by-side relationship and the fins having louvers extending over most of their area. The center is disposed in the flow channel with the planes of the fins transverse to the oil flow or alternatively with the planes of the fins parallel to the oil flow.

Abstract: A heat exchanger of the tube-fin type comprising a tank (10) having first (14) and second (16) ends, a plurality of tubes (34), a plurality of baffles (38) and a plurality of fins (42). A cap (50, 52) is connected to each end (14, 16) of the tank (10) and includes a fluid coupler (60, 61). Each cap (50, 52) comprises a female member (74) disposed therein including a plurality of interior passageways (88), first (90) and second (92) annular channels intersecting with opposite ends of the passageways (88), and a plurality of islands (94) bounded by the passageways (88) and first (90) and second (92) channels. The tank (10) further comprises a male member (72) extending from each end (14, 16) and including a plurality of outwardly extending tabs (76), an annular extending rim (82), and an annular resilient seal (84).

Abstract: A plate and fin type heat exchanger is disclosed for cooling automotive engine oil, transmission fluid and power steering fluid. The heat exchanger is formed of a plurality of stacked plate pairs with louvered fins located therebetween. The plate pairs are formed of two elongate identical plates located face-to-face and having planar central portions, raised co-planar peripheral edge portions joined together, and co-planar end bosses with openings therein to form flow headers when the plate pairs are stacked together. The planar central portions have a plurality of uniformly spaced-apart, on-overlapping blunt projections joined together along a common plane with the peripheral edge portions. The projections are symmetrical and provide uniform flow through the plate pairs.

Abstract: An oil cooler center has a sinusoidally shaped plate with a center length which extends across the width of a longitudinal flow path through an oil cooler and with a center pitch formed between a pair of inclined walls that form a plurality of spaced oil chambers in the oil cooler having oil flow diverted therethrough by louvers formed in the walls to form inlets and outlets to and from the spaced oil chambers and wherein the louvers are inclined to mix the oil up and down in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal flow path so as to break up a thermal boundary layer on the inner surface of the outside walls of an oil cooler.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for oil from a machine, and particularly from the main spindle system of a machine tool comprises a heat pipe having a heat absorbing portion which is immersed in an oil tank and a heat dissipating portion which is disposed outside the oil tank. An oil guide surrounds the heat absorbing portion and guides hot oil from the machine tool past the heat absorbing portion. A working fluid sealed inside the heat pipe cools the hot oil by evaporation and dissipates the heat to the surrounding air. An oil weir may be disposed at one end of the oil guide so as to maintain an adequate level of oil in the oil guide when the oil level in the oil tank is below the bottom of the heat pipe.

Abstract: An oil cooler for motor oil used in engines has an element core, a base on which the core is placed, and a casing housing the element core. The core consists of a plurality of sets of two elements being combined together face-to-face and a fin member which is placed on the set of elements. These two elements and one fin member are join together to make a single unit. Several units are contained in the casing of the oil cooler. Cooling water circulates through the flat hollow doughnut-like elements combined. A partition is formed in the interior of the elements combined and a set of cooling water supply hole and exit hole is provided at both the sides of the partition. The core of elements and a base on which the core is placed are brazing adhered or fixed to each other in a hot vacuum furnace and then a dish-like cap is applied to the base. Motor oil to be cooled is led from the engine block to a filter mechanism through several fin members situated between elements.

Abstract: A motor vehicle power steering installation has a heat exchanger mounted in a hollow portion of a motor vehicle frame where air passes through at a velocity higher than that outside the motor vehicle frame.

Abstract: The inlet and outlet passages communicating with a water-cooled engine oil cooler for a vehicle, such as a motorcycle, are arranged for bypass of a regulated amount of oil from the inlet passage to the outlet passage to enhance the flowability of the cooled oil. Provision is made for a replaceable flow control orifice between the oil inlet and outlet passages to regulate oil viscosity. Also described is an arrangement providing for mounting the cooler to the crankcase or oil pan surface whereby air flowing past the cooler during movement of the vehicle assists the effects of the cooling liquid.

Abstract: A heat exchanger with an internal bypass valve wherein the open end of a bypass tube mounted within a heat exchanger tube forms a valve seat for the bypass valve. A valve head mounted on a valve rod is spring loaded against the valve seat in the preferred design. The length of the contact arms on the valve body controls the valve activation pressure. The heat exchanger tubes may be mounted in parallel and the bypass valves may be mounted in the same direction or in opposite directions to permit bidirectional bypass flow.

Abstract: Areas of potential oil stagnation in a donut oil cooler that lower heat transfer efficiency are avoided by locating closed fluid flow passages (100) for unfiltered oil to be directed to a filter (14) within spacers (102), (110), (130), and defined by corresponding apertures (88), (90), (92), (94) in plates (78) and (80) forming oil cooling chambers (76) and located centrally thereof.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for exchange of heat between two liquid media, particularly an oil-water-heat exchanger for cooling engine or transmission oil in an automotive vehicle with the aid of the cooling water flow of the engine, comprises two heat-exchange chambers (1, 2) mutually separated by a common liquid-impervious partition wall (3) and intended to be through-passed by a respective one of the media. The partition wall (3) is tubular with a circular cross-section and open axial ends forming an inlet and an outlet for the water. The heat-exchange chamber (1) for the water is annular and located radially inwards of the partition wall and encloses a direct flow path for the water from the inlet (4) to the outlet (5), and communicates with the direct flow path in a manner such that only part of the total water flow through the inlet (4) will pass through the said heat-exchange chamber (1), whereas the remainder of the water will flow along the direct flow path to the outlet (5).

Abstract: A heat exchanger for exchange of heat between two liquid media, of which at least one medium is contaminated and/or readily gives rise to deposits or coatings, such as e.g. contaminated water, includes two flow chambers mutually separated by a common liquid-impervious partition wall (1). The partition wall is tubular with a substantially circular cross-sectional and open ends forming respectively an inlet (2) and an outlet (3) for a first media. The partition wall is surrounded by a cylindrical sleeve-like outer wall (4) extending coaxially with the partition wall in spaced relationship therewith, and having its axial ends sealingly connected to the partition wall (1), and provided with an inlet (5) and an outlet (6) for the second medium so as to define a flow chamber for the second medium. At least the major part of the sleeve-like outer wall (4) is elastically flexible.

Abstract: An integral water/oil radiator for a vehicle engine is described, its main characteristic being that it is composed of a single monolithic finned tube bundle provided integrally with respective cantilevered abutting cup members in correspondence with the opposing ends of a series of greater-diameter tubes, to connect said greater-diameter tubes together in a fluid-tight manner, and with a pair of chambers connected abuttingly in a fluid-tight manner to the opposing ends of the tube bundle and internally housing said cup members.

Abstract: An automotive oil cooler used in combination with an oil filter. The oil cooler is comprised of a heat exchange element which is constructed of a plurality of heat transmission plates. The heat transmission plates are piled up one upon another and fixedly secured by brazing in such a manner as to define oil and water flowing spaces on the opposite sides of each heat transmission plate. Oil and water flow through the oil and water flowing spaces, respectively. The heat exchange element is formed with a plurality of oil supply passages through which oil is supplied to the oil filter, an oil inflow passage communicating with the oil flowing space to receive oil from the oil filter, an oil outflow passage communicating with the oil flowing space to receive oil from the oil flowing space, a water inflow passage communicating with the water flowing passage, and a water outflow passage communicating with the water flowing space to receive water from the water flowing space.

Abstract: This invention pertains to improvements in the design of reservoirs for hydraulic systems, by providing self regulated temperature control for hydraulic fluids. The unique features of the reservoir of my invention include; an interconnected multi-chamber design with integrated vertical heat transfer tubes, for conductive and convective heat transfer from the hydraulic fluid to the surrounding atmosphere.

Abstract: A combined filter and heat exchanger for simultaneous filtering of a first medium and heat transfer between the first medium and a second medium, for example a combined oil filter and cooler for internal combustion engines includes a filter section comprising a hollow, cylindrical filter element (2) arranged co-axially within an outer casing (1) having a cylindrical wall (1a) which extends around the filter element coaxially therewith and in spaced relationship thereto. A heat-exchanger section is arranged in the space between the cylindrical wall (1a) and the filter element (2). The heat-exchanger section includes a cylindrical partition wall (5) subdividing said space into two chambers. The first medium flows first through the inner chamber and is then distributed across the outer surface of the filter element (2), whereas the second medium flows through the outer chamber (7).

Abstract: An heat exchanger transfers the heat from engine oil passing through a plurality of tube members to engine coolant within a housing for cooling the engine oil. The tube members are arranged within the housing in groups with the tube members in each group being aligned radially to form a fan shaped core. The cores are arranged circularly, so that the effective surface of the tube members through which the heat of the engine oil therewithin transfers to the engine coolant outside of the tube members becomes maximized.

Abstract: A combination radiator and oil cooler including a elongated tubular header 10 having a generally cylindrical cross section with an interior 14 defining a liquid side and an exterior 22 defining an air side. A plurality of elongated parallel tubes 12 are joined to the header 10 at one side thereof and fins 16 extended between the tubes 12. A saddle element 24 is disposed on the header 10 oppositely of the tubes 12 and has a periphery 28, 56, joined to the exterior 22 and an internal section 30, 58, bounded by the periphery 28, 56 and spaced from the exterior 22 to define an oil space 32, 60. An inlet fixture 34 and an outlet fixture 36 are secured to the saddle element 24 oppositely of the space 26, 60 and within the periphery 28, 56 in fluid communication with the oil space 26, 60.

Abstract: Apparatus including an expandable bellows having a pair of end plates, one plate being provided with a fluid inlet and the other plate being provided with a fluid outlet. A diffuser and filter is located within the bellows across the fluid path between the inlet and outlet. Thus, fluid at an elevated temperature entering the bellows must flow first through the diffuser, then through the filter before leaving the space within the bellows. In this way, the fluid is filtered before passing to and through the outlet. The expansion capability of the bellows provides a heat exchange relation between the fluid and the bellows itself. A pressure relief cap can be coupled to an outlet port communicating with the interior of the bellows. The inlet is adapted to be coupled to the waste line of a fluid pump of a hydrostatic system and the outlet is adapted to be coupled to the supply line of the fluid pump.

Abstract: A plate fin heat exchanger having a first flow channel and a second flow channel which are formed by at least three flat plates arranged in parallel with one another at a predetermined spacing and opposed side walls provided between the adjacent flat plates. A platelike wall interconnecting the side walls is provided within at least one of the first and second flow channels and has a multiplicity of projections arched when seen from one side and formed by cutting the interconnecting wall and being projected upward and downward. Each of the arched projections is opposed to a fluid passage.

Abstract: A marine propulsion device comprising a propulsion unit adapted to be mounted on the transom of a boat for pivotal movement relative to the transom about a generally vertical steering axis, and about a generally horizontal tilt axis, the propulsion unit including a rotatably mounted propeller, an engine drivingly connected to the propeller, and a wall at least partially defining a cooling water jacket and having therein an opening communicating with the water jacket, and a fluid cooler extending through the opening and including a portion extending internally of the water jacket and having therein a fluid passage adapted to communicate with a source of fluid to be cooled in the fluid cooler.

Abstract: A cooler for engine lubricant oil is formed by a stack of heat exchanger modules each defining therein a first space for engine cooling water. A second space is defined between each adjacent pair of modules. The first spaces in respective modules are communicated with each other by water inlets and outlets. The second spaces are communicated with each other by openings. One of the outermost modules is sealingly connected to a part of a lubricant circuit of the engine while the other outermost module is sealingly connected with an oil filter so that hot lubricant oil from the engine flows through the second spaces in the stack of modules into the oil filter in heat exchange relationship with engine cooling water flowing through the first spaces in respective modules. The oil filter is communicated with another part of lubricant circuit for the recirculation of cleaned oil back into the engine.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inventive fluid filter-treatment pressure vessel and valve arrangement which allows the fluid filter to be readily isolated from the coolant system. The present invention utilizes a single spool to close off both the inlet and outlet to the fluid filter in a virtually leak proof fashion while not requiring precision machine parts.