Finned Tube Patents (Class 29/890.046)
  • Patent number: 11266043
    Abstract: Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for managing thermal energy of a computing device. An apparatus may include a heat pipe physically and thermally attached to a container by a retainer. The container may include a plurality of slots to removably receive various plurality of pluggable circuit modules during a lifetime of the container. The heat pipe may facilitate a liquid coolant flow to remove thermal energy from a plurality of pluggable circuit modules removably received into the plurality of slots of the container. The retainer may have a tensile strength sufficient to withstand repeated receiving and removal of the various plurality of pluggable circuit modules during the lifetime of the container, without degrading the thermal attachment of the heat pipe to the container below a design performance threshold. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Annie Chen, David Rodriguez, Barrett M. Faneuf, Juan G. Cevallos
  • Patent number: 11252838
    Abstract: A water-cooing heat dissipation device includes a vapor chamber, a heat conduction cylinder, and a cover. A first chamber is formed in the vapor chamber. The heat conduction cylinder extends from a surface of the vapor chamber. A second chamber communicating with the first chamber is formed in the heat conduction cylinder. A working fluid flows in the first chamber and the second chamber. The cover covers the vapor chamber; the heat conduction cylinder is disposed in the cover. By means of the working fluid flowing in the first chamber and the second chamber which communicate with each other, heat can be delivered rapidly from the vapor chamber to the heat conduction cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: COOLER MASTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jen-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 10788274
    Abstract: A metal matrix (2) for a heat exchanger (1), comprising a stack of components (4, 5, 6), in particular etched plates or corrugations (4), separator sheets (5) and bars (6), or a combination of the two types of stack, said components (4, 5, 6) being held relative to one another by layers of braze material (3), thereby ensuring the mechanical integrity of the matrix, the matrix including fluid circulation passages (10) within it, each fluid circulation passage (10) having an inner wall provided to fully contain said fluid radially, characterized in that each inner wall is fully covered with a corrosion-resistant coating (7). Preferred application to heat exchangers based on carbon steel or stainless steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: FIVES CRYO
    Inventors: Thierry Mazet, Johan Dib, Florian Henri Ernest Picard
  • Patent number: 10618090
    Abstract: A method for producing a thickness-profiled metal strip in which at least one opening is produced in the metal strip and in a subsequent step, the metal strip is longitudinally rolled with at least one roller that penetrates into the metal strip in some regions across its strip width and thus a thickness profiling at least in the width direction of the metal strip is produced. In order to improve the reproducibility of the method, what is proposed is that at least one hole passing through the metal strip is produced as an opening in the metal strip, over which hole the roller that penetrates into the metal strip longitudinally rolls in order to produce the thickness profiling in the width direction of the metal strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: voestalpine Krems GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Polk
  • Patent number: 9604328
    Abstract: A heat sink structure and a method of manufacturing same are disclosed. The heat sink structure includes a main body and a plurality of radiating fins. The main body has a plurality of coupling flutes circumferentially spaced along an outer surface thereof and longitudinally extended from a first end to a second thereof. The radiating fins respectively have a bent section integrally located between a first and a second heat radiating section. To quickly assemble the radiating fins to the main body, the radiating fins are disposed in a forming mold, and the main body is mechanically driven into the forming mold at a high speed, so that the bent sections of the radiating fins are longitudinally forced into the coupling flutes from the first to the second end of the main body to thereby tightly connect the radiating fins to the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 9111910
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a heat pipe and a fin set. The fin set includes a plurality of fins. Each of the fins includes a body, a first flange vertically extending from a top side of the body, and a second flange vertically extending from a bottom side of the body. The first flange has a first edge abutting a front neighboring fin and a second edge spaced to the first edge to define a slit. The first flange forms an extending portion extending from the second edge to define a gap between the extending portion and the body of the front neighboring fin. Each of the extending portions is soldered to the body of the front neighboring fin by solder filled in the gap between the extending portion and the body of the front neighboring fin from the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: FURUI PRECISE COMPONENT (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD., Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ben-Fan Xia
  • Patent number: 9095636
    Abstract: A catalytic device for removal of airborne volatile compounds from air includes a substrate and an electrodeposited catalytic coating. The substrate has a surface. The electrodeposited catalytic coating is on the surface of the substrate. The electrodeposited catalytic coating includes a catalyst that is capable of interacting with airborne volatile compounds. The electrodeposited catalytic coating has a multimodal porosity distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wayde R. Schmidt, Tania Bhatia Kashyap, Treese Hugener-Campbell
  • Patent number: 9089890
    Abstract: A method for the production of a receiving device for the flow tubes of a heat exchanger with openings for receiving the flow tubes. One opening is at least partially produced by a first forming method and at least partially by a second forming method that is different from the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: MAHLE Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Holger Auchter, Hans-Peter Heuss, Bruno Lösch
  • Publication number: 20150128881
    Abstract: A method of fabricating boiler water walls that includes the steps of forming a subpanel formed of at least one fin and one tube by laser arc welding the at least one fin to the one tube and then laser arc welding a predetermined plurality of subpanels together in a two-dimensional plane by laser arc welding an additional joining element between respective subpanels to form the water wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Peter T. Nance, Brett Jamison Bercaw
  • Publication number: 20150121875
    Abstract: A steam generator for generating a superheated fluid from a working fluid using a stream of heated gas, the steam generator comprising: a housing, which defines a gas flow path having an inlet at one, upstream end thereof into which a stream of heated gas is delivered and an outlet at the other, downstream end thereof; and a steam generation module which is disposed within the gas flow path of the housing, the steam generation module comprising a heat exchanger which receives a working fluid and is operative to raise the temperature of the working fluid to provide a saturated fluid, and a superheater which receives the saturated fluid from the heat exchanger and is operative to raise the temperature of the saturated fluid and provide a supersaturated fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Alan Burns, Paul Andrew Burns
  • Publication number: 20150122471
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a heat exchanger comprises a coolant tube, and a fin having a collar coupled with the coolant tube and projected from a plate part, wherein the collar includes a call connection non-contacting part having an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the coolant tube, the call connection non-contacting part not contacting an outer surface of the coolant tube, and a call connection contacting part, an inner surface of the call connection contacting part contacting the outer surface of the coolant tube when the coolant tube is inserted, wherein a connecting member is positioned between an inner surface of the call connection non-contacting part and the outer surface of the coolant tube. Accordingly, without a tube expanding process for tube expanding the coolant tube, the coolant tube may be brought in tight contact with the fin. Further, the furnace brazing process is performed to minimize the defect rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Juhyoung LEE, Seongwon BAE
  • Publication number: 20150101356
    Abstract: A heat exchanger with a thermoelectric element having a tubular fluid channel extending in a longitudinal direction is provided. In particular, the fluid channel is bent at a middle portion to have a first portion and a second portion on both sides of the middle portion, and has an inlet and an outlet for entry and exit of fluid. Also included is a thermoelectric element that has a first surface of which is attached to a first section of a first surface of a flat portion of the first portion and the second portion of the fluid channel, and a radiant heat fin attached to the first surface and a second surface of each of the first portion and the second portion of the fluid channel, respectively. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicants: KBAUTOTECH CO., LTD., HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Man Ju Oh, Jae Woong Kim, Jae Woo Park, Jae Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 8985194
    Abstract: A radiating fin and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The radiating fin includes a main body having a first side and an opposite second side, and being provided with at least one through hole to extend between the first and the second side for a heat pipe to extend therethrough; and at least one extension being formed on at least one of the first and the second side of the main body to locate around the at least one through hole and axially project from the main body. The extension is crimped to form a plurality of circumferentially alternate ridge portions and valley portions for tightly pressing against an outer surface of the heat pipe, so as to firmly bind the radiating fin to the heat pipe. A thermal module can be formed by sequentially binding a plurality of the radiating fins to the heat pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng-Huang Lin
  • Publication number: 20150075213
    Abstract: Plate-like fins have notches longer than a longitudinal axis of flat tubes that are placed in the notches. The plate-like fins also have bend portions that are located on projections projecting toward the edges more than the ends of the flat tubes, are formed by bending part of the plate-like fins, erect in a stacking direction in which the plate-like fins are stacked, and are in contact with adjacent ones of the plate-like fins. The height of the bend portions in the stacking direction is the length of a predetermined spacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ishibashi, Takuya Matsuda, Sangmu Lee, Takashi Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20150060027
    Abstract: A radiator includes a tube that has a flattened-shape, the tube including an internal flow channel that allows a coolant to flow through the internal flow channel; and a tank that includes an insertion port into which a joint end portion of the tube is inserted so that the tank and the tube are joined to each other, wherein the tube includes an outer-peripheral-wall extending in a direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the tube, and bend depressions that are bent toward the internal flow channel in a concave shape are formed in at least a region of the outer-peripheral-wall adjacent to the joint end portion, the bend depressions extending along the internal flow channel, and the bend depressions are deformed in a width direction of the tube so that the width of the joint end portion is the same as the width of the insertion port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Fumihiro TAWA
  • Publication number: 20150052755
    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: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20150053377
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a heat transfer tube; a plurality of fins each having ark-shaped contact surfaces configured to be brought into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the heat transfer tube, each of the fins being attached from the outside in a radial direction of the heat transfer tube; an adhesive that bonds the outer peripheral surface of the heat transfer tube and the contact surface of each of the fins; and a position regulation portion which is provided between the fins adjacent to each other in the tube axis direction and regulates a position in the tube axis direction of each of the fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhide Hara, Koichi Tanimoto, Yoshihiko Yoshida, Yukihiro Sakaguchi, Masahiro Yoshioka, Fumikazu Ogata
  • Publication number: 20150047820
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for disposition within a duct having a curved surface is provided and includes a frame formed to define an inlet, an outlet and an interior by which the inlet and outlet are fluidly communicative, the frame including first and second surfaces having curvatures similar to that of the curved surface on either side of the interior and a heat exchanger fin disposed in the interior, the fin having corrugations and being formed to define slots transverse to the corrugations such that the fin is bendable along the curvatures of the first and second surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: William E. Rhoden
  • Publication number: 20150027678
    Abstract: A heat exchanger and a method and apparatus for manufacturing the same are provided. The heat exchanger may include a refrigerant tube, through which a refrigerant may flow, at least one heat-exchange fin, into which the refrigerant tube may be inserted, a plurality of tube treatments provided on a surface of the refrigerant tube, and a plurality of fin treatments provided on a surface of the at least one heat-exchange fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo SONG, Jangseok Lee, Sung Jhee
  • Publication number: 20140360017
    Abstract: The anticorrosion treatment method of the invention is carried out on the outer surface of an aluminum extruded heat exchange tube which is formed of an Al alloy containing Mn 0.2 to 0.3 mass %, Cu 0.05 mass % or less, and Fe 0.2 mass % or less, and which has a wall thickness of 200 ?m or less. The anticorrosion treatment method includes applying a specific dispersion of a flux powder and a Zn powder onto the outer surface of the heat exchange tube, and vaporizing a liquid component of the dispersion, to thereby deposit the Zn powder and the flux powder on the outer surface of the heat exchange tube, such that the Zn powder deposition amount, the flux powder deposition amount, and the ratio of the flux powder deposition amount to the Zn powder deposition amount are adjusted to specific values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: KEIHIN THERMAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youhei IKAWA, Takashi TERADA, Hiroshi OTSUKI
  • Publication number: 20140352150
    Abstract: A heat sink structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The heat sink includes a main body and multiple radiating fins each having a folded root section. The main body has multiple connection channels formed on a circumference of the main body. The multiple radiating fins are placed in a mold. A mechanical processing measure is used to high-speed impact the main body so as to thrust the main body into the mold. Accordingly, the folded root sections of the radiating fins are relatively high-speed thrust into the connection channels of the main body to tightly integrally connect with the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20140311720
    Abstract: A multiple bank, flattened tube heat exchange unit includes a first tube bank including a plurality of flattened tube segments extending longitudinally in spaced parallel relationship and a second tube bank including a plurality of flattened tube segments extending longitudinally in spaced parallel relationship, the second tube bank disposed behind the first tube bank at a desired spacing gap. A first plurality of folded fins is disposed between respective adjacent pairs of the heat exchange tube segments of the first tube bank and a second plurality of folded fins disposed between respective adjacent pairs of the heat exchange tube segments of the second tube bank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Carrier Corporation
    Inventors: Michael F. Taras, Arindom Joardar, Tobias H. Sienel, Mel Woldesemayat, Bruce J. Poplawski
  • Publication number: 20140299304
    Abstract: An aluminum tube-and-fin assembly for easy insertion into a manifold seal is provided. The assembly comprises a generally cylindrical, elongated tube and fins extending radially outward from the body. A bead is formed circumferentially around the tube end. A smooth, curved, circumferentially disposed bead corner is interposed between the bead and the tube end. The bead corner has a frustoconical curved shape and a radii of curvature of at least 0.2 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakara Reddy Gopireddy, Neil Alan Terry, Mahesh Kumar Mokire, Sumeeth Sivanagere
  • Publication number: 20140298653
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing tube fm heat exchangers, (TFP), by brazing metal components of mainly aluminium or aluminium alloys including the following steps:—making the components of the TFP heat exchanger including the tubes (2) and plate fins (6) with collars (7),—providing a pre-braze coating with filler material on the tubes (2), or providing a (welded) clad tube (2) with a flux coating,—assembling the components including attaching the fins (6) to the tubes (2),—heating the assembled components forming the brazed connection between the tubes (2) and fins (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: NORSK HYDRO ASA
    Inventors: Jan Halvor Nordlien, Hartmut Janssen, Thierry Guillaume
  • Publication number: 20140215825
    Abstract: The method of manufacturing a fin-integrated tube for a heat exchanger includes step of disposing a rolling roller group including rolling rollers so as to surround the periphery of a tube, each of the roller crests of the rolling rollers being rounded at an end thereof into an R-shape, widths of the R-shaped ends being gradually increased from one axial end to the other axial end for each of the rolling rollers, and step of causing the roller crests to press the periphery of the tube from the one axial end to the other axial end by axially moving and rotating the rolling roller group relative to the tube so as to deform a part of the periphery of the tube into a spirally projecting portion while shaping it into a spiral fin by gradually squeezing the part of the periphery of the tube using the R-shaped end portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu FURUKAWA, Takeshi ITOH
  • Patent number: 8756811
    Abstract: A heat sink having heat-dissipating fins capable of increasing heat-dissipating area-includes a heat pipe and the heat-dissipating fins. The heat pipe has a heat-absorbing section and a heat-releasing section. The heat-dissipating fin has a lower plate and an upper plate. The upper plate is bent to be overlapped on the lower plate, thereby forming a heat-dissipating path (b) therebetween. The lower plate and the upper plate are provided with a through-hole respectively in such a manner that these two through-holes correspond to each other. The heat-releasing section of the heat pipe penetrates the through-holes of the heat-dissipating fins successively. In this way, the heat-dissipating area in the same height can be increased, thereby improving the heat-dissipating efficiency of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd., Cpumate Inc
    Inventors: Kuo-Len Lin, Chen-Hsiang Lin, Ken Hsu, Chih-Hung Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140158333
    Abstract: A heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. With the method, a tube may be inserted into a through hole formed in at least one fin coated with a filler metal, and the tube and a fin collar of the at least one fin may be joined through the filler metal by a brazing processing. A flange may not be formed on or at a top of the at least one fin collar, which protrudes vertically from a central longitudinal plane of the at least one fin. The tube may be made of aluminum (Al), and an interval between an outer circumferential surface of the tube and an inner circumferential surface of the fin collar of the at least one fin may be approximately 0.1 mm or less. Accordingly, contact resistance occurring when fabricating a fin-tube heat exchanger using a mechanical tube expansion method may be reduced, and heat transfer performance of the heat exchanger may be improved because grooves formed within the tube may not be deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: JUHYOK KIM, Hongseong Kim, Hanchoon Lee, Sangyeul Lee
  • Patent number: 8732951
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing finned tubes made of metal, in particular heat exchanger tubes, where at least one continuous strip forming the fins is fed tangentially to a tubular body set into rotational motion, and wound onto it, the side of the strip facing the tubular body is connected to the tube surface by means of a welding device and using a filler material, and the strip to be wound is guided between guide discs just behind the welding area, said discs reaching close up to the tube surface and the welding point. To increase the service life of the guide discs, the guide discs are cooled, specifically with cooling water to which roughly 10% by volume of a welding release agent are added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Georg Bruendermann
  • Patent number: 8732952
    Abstract: A serpentine fin for assembly between tubes in a heat exchanger core, and a method of making same from a metal strip. The strip edges have a hem comprising a double thickness of the strip material extending inward from the edge. The metal strip has folds extending across the strip width such that the strip forms a serpentine shape, with the folds being adapted to contact the tubes in the heat exchanger core. Multiple rows of split louvers are disposed between adjacent folds. Each row of split louvers comprises louvers having openings extending in the direction of the strip length and formed in a pair of adjacent, spaced louver banks. Ribs are disposed parallel to the louver openings adjacent the strip edges and in at least one center portion of the strip between the strip edges, and extend across the pair of louver bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC
    Inventor: John A. Kolb
  • Publication number: 20140124184
    Abstract: The current invention provides a tube-grasping body for grasping an insert tube in a heat exchanger, and heat exchanger production methods and apparatuses utilizing the tube-grasping body, wherein said tube-grasping body enables to enlarge and connect an insert tube to a heat radiating fin for producing a heat exchanger, still keeping the total length of insert tubes at an almost same level even after the enlargement; and said tube-grasping body is connected at its exterior to the guide-pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: KYOSHIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Tokura
  • Patent number: 8713794
    Abstract: A method for producing steam generator tube walls, where the tube walls are formed from a tube-fin-tube combination and are comprised of a multiplicity of at least one of the tube wall components made of plane tube wall panels, curved tube wall panels, transition tube wall panels and corner bends and are configured with a take-up member with one penetration opening each at tube wall regions at which tubes are passed through the tube wall and the tube wall panels exhibit at the periphery longitudinal fin-fin panel joints and transverse circumferential weld-panel joints. The method including producing tube wall components made primarily of 9-12% martensitic chromium steels by welding in a workshop, the components having a material that is not to be heat treated at specific locations. Tempering the tube wall components in the workshop with a first heating device. Connecting the tube wall components at their circumferential weld-panel joints at the assembly site with weld seams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Ruben Hartwig, Andreas Helmrich, Daniel Mutter, Alois Schalk
  • Patent number: 8667685
    Abstract: A heat-dissipating fin capable of increasing heat-dissipating area includes a lower plate and an upper plate. The lower plate is provided with a through-hole. The upper plate extends from the lower plate and is bent to be overlapped on the lower plate, thereby forming a heat-dissipating path (b) therebetween. In this way, the heat-dissipating area in the same height can be increased, thereby improving the heat-dissipating efficiency of the fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignees: CPumate Inc, Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Len Lin, Chen-Hsiang Lin, Ken Hsu, Chih-Hung Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140059858
    Abstract: The present invention provides a heat-dissipating device and a method for manufacturing the same. The heat-dissipating device includes a heat sink and a heat pipe. The heat sink has an end surface provided with a groove. The heat pipe is received in the groove. The heat pipe has a heat-absorbing surface and a heat-conducting surface. The heat-conducting surface is adhered to the inner edge of the groove. The heat-absorbing surface is in flush with the end surface. With this arrangement, heat resistance of the heat-dissipating device is reduced to improve the heat-dissipating effect thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Asia Vital Components Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Sheng Lin, Li-Min Sun, Ching-Hsiang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20140041227
    Abstract: A tube assembly for use in a heat exchanger is made by arranging a first corrugated fin structure between one broad, flat side of a tube and a side sheet, and arranging a second corrugated fin between another broad and flat side of a tube and another side sheet. Compressive forces are applied to the opposite faces of the side sheets to place crests and troughs of the corrugated fin structures into contact with the side sheets and the broad, flat sides, and the assembly is brazed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Eric Lindell, Girish Mantri, Gregory Hughes, Paul Topitzes
  • Publication number: 20140034278
    Abstract: A heat sink structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The heat sink includes a main body having multiple main body connection sections and multiple radiating fins each having a connection section. The main body has a first end and a second end. The first and second ends define a longitudinal direction. The multiple radiating fins are placed in a mold. A mechanical processing measure is used to high-speed impact the main body so as to thrust the main body into the mold. Accordingly, the connection sections of the radiating fins placed in the mold are high-speed thrust into the main body connection sections and moved in the longitudinal direction to the second end of the main body to tightly integrally connect with the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20140034279
    Abstract: A heat sink structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The heat sink includes a main body and multiple radiating fins each having a folded root section. The main body has multiple connection channels formed on a circumference of the main body. The multiple radiating fins are placed in a mold. A mechanical processing measure is used to high-speed impact the main body so as to thrust the main body into the mold. Accordingly, the folded root sections of the radiating fins are relatively high-speed thrust into the connection channels of the main body to tightly integrally connect with the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20140034280
    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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20140020880
    Abstract: A removable radiator fin assembly adapted to removably receive a radiator pipe. The removable fin assembly includes a first plurality of fins and a second plurality of fins having collar flanges sized to receive a radiator pipe. The fins are received on first and second spacer rods, respectively and are hingedly connected by a hinge rod such that the first and second plurality of fins are pivotally movable about the hinge rod between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the first and second plurality of fins are positionable over the radiator pipe. In the closed position, the collar flanges of the first and second plurality of fins substantially surround the radiator pipe. A fin clamp secures the first and second plurality of fins together in the closed position about the radiator pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Gordon B. Fanberg, Robert A. Fransen
  • Publication number: 20130306295
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and machine for manufacturing a heat exchanger block, to fins for manufacturing a heat exchanger block, and to a heat exchanger block. There is provided a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger block(12) comprising a number of tubes (16) and a number of fins (14; 214a, 214b; 314a,314b), neighbouring fins being separated by a predetermined spacing by way of spacer means (52; 52a, 52b), the method including the steps of: locating a predetermined number of tubes in a chosen array; locating a number of fins adjacent an end of the tubes; fitting the fins onto the tubes; and vibrating the tubes and/or the fins during the step of fitting the fins onto the tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventor: David Bland Pierce
  • Publication number: 20130240193
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger block, to a spacer means for use in the method, and to a heat exchanger block. The heat exchanger block comprises a number of tubes and a number of fins, the fins having a predetermined spacing determined by the spacer means. The method includes the steps of locating the fins in a carrier and pressing the fins onto the tubes, and providing spacer means for the fins, whereby the spacer means supports a fin during the pressing step and determines the spacing between the fins in the assembled heat exchanger. Each of the fins has apertures for the tubes, the apertures engaging the tubes. Each of the spacer means has openings for the tubes, the openings being larger than the apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventor: David Bland Pierce
  • Publication number: 20130228321
    Abstract: A heat exchanger, illustratively utilized in a fuel-fired pool heater, circumscribes a burner operative to discharge hot combustion gases outwardly through the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger has a tube portion helically coiled about an axis, with a series of heat transfer fins circumscribing the tube portion and spaced apart along it length. The fins on longitudinally adjacent pairs of coils of the tubing have nested facing edge portions which collectively form a seal area that coils between the tubing portion adjacent coil pairs in axially spaced relationships therewith, the seal area substantially impeding combustion gas flow therethrough in a direction generally transverse to the axis of the heat exchanger. Additionally, the fins have deformed laterally outer portions that define a coiled, circumferentially spaced series of restricted combustion gas outlets in substantial axial alignment with the helically coiled tube portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Kevin G. Williams, Juan C. Montanez
  • Patent number: 8522436
    Abstract: The method for mounting fins onto an annular seat of the invention includes the steps of: a) providing a forming machine for forming sheet metal from a material; b) cutting the sheet metal to form a plurality of fins; c) providing an annular seat placed on a rotary support and having slots; and d) one by one embedding the fins into the slots with rotation of the annular seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Li-Hua Chin
  • Publication number: 20130118013
    Abstract: A method for producing an aluminum alloy heat exchanger includes applying a coating material prepared by mixing an Si powder, a flux powder, and a binder to a surface of a multiport flat refrigerant tube, assembling an aluminum alloy bare fin with the multiport flat refrigerant tube, and brazing the multiport flat refrigerant tube and the aluminum alloy bare fin to obtain an aluminum alloy heat exchanger, the multiport flat refrigerant tube being formed of an aluminum alloy extruded material that includes 0.5 to 1.7 mass % of Mn, less than 0.10 mass % of Si, and less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Naoki Yamashita, Yuji Hisatomi
  • Patent number: 8418365
    Abstract: In a method for producing a heat exchanger tube bundle for a heat exchanger of an electrochemical energy accumulators, heat exchanger channels and an intended profile are incorporated into material strips by deep drawing. A forward-flow distribution aperture is incorporated into a first such material strip from step b) (first heat exchanger plate), and return collecting apertures are incorporated into a second such material strip, forming first and the second heat exchanger plates. The latter are aligned in such a manner that webs of the two heat exchanger plates border each other, and the heat exchanger channels form heat exchanger tubes. The heat exchanger plates arranged in this manner are joined together to form a heat exchanger tube bundle. A corresponding pressure welding apparatus, a heat exchanger tube bundle, a heat exchanger module, a heat exchanger with two or more heat exchanger modules, and an electrochemical energy accumulator with a heat exchanger of this type are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Johann German, Robert Ritter, Thomas Soczka-Guth
  • Publication number: 20130074342
    Abstract: A method of forming a tube for a heat exchanger includes advancing an expansion tool into a tube a first time and engaging the expansion tool with the tube to expand the tube diametrically at least partially along a length of the tube. The expansion tool is at least partially retracted from the tube. The expansion tool is advanced into the tube one or more subsequent times thereby engaging the expansion tool with the tube one or more subsequent times to further expand the tube at least partially along the length of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Loren D. Hoffman, Jason Michael Thomas, Eric Konkle, Jeffrey L. Jones, Luis Felipe Avila, Bruce J. Poplawski
  • Patent number: 8375584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat sink of a large area, in which a heat-dissipating body is further provided in its limited space. The method for manufacturing a fin includes the steps of providing a fin, cutting the fin to form a foldable piece thereon, folding back the foldable piece to be overlapped on the fin and form an accommodating hole, and punching the folded piece and the fin to form two overlapped through-holes. The fin, the heat-dissipating body and heat pipes are assembled together to obtain the heat sink. Since the fins and the heat-dissipating body dissipate the heat of the heat-generating element simultaneously, the heat-dissipating efficiency of the heat sink can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignees: Cpumate Inc, Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Len Lin, Chen-Hsiang Lin, Ken Hsu, Chih-Hung Cheng
  • Patent number: 8359745
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heat sink includes providing a heat-conducting base with a plurality of open troughs; providing a plurality of heat pipes, each having a heat-absorbing section and a heat-releasing section extending from the heat-absorbing section; the heat-absorbing section being accommodated in one open trough to have the heat pipe engaged with the heat-conducting base; providing a plurality of heat-dissipating fins, each of the heat-dissipating fins having a lower plate and an upper plate extending from the lower plate, the upper plate being folded to form an overlapping portion attached on the lower plate; forming a through-hole in the lower plate and the upper plate at the overlapping portion; and penetrating the through-holes of the heat-dissipating fins by the heat-releasing section of the heat pipe. In this way, the heat-dissipating area in the same height can be increased, thereby improving the heat-dissipating efficiency of the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: CPUmate Inc., Golden Sun News Techniques Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Len Lin, Chen-Hsiang Lin, Ken Hsu, Chih-Hung Cheng
  • Publication number: 20130000878
    Abstract: A process (or method) for manufacturing a heat exchanger includes inserting at least one plate for heat emission between two adjacent corrugations of a corrugated body. The corrugations are pressed against each other such that the inserted plate is clamped in between the corrugations in a positive-locking and non-positive manner. The heat exchanger for cooling fluids includes a tube, which is designed partially as a corrugated body and has at least one plate inserted for heat emission between two corrugations of the corrugated body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: Werner Janzer, Andreas Bonk, Uwe Wild
  • Patent number: 8322408
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between fluid such as refrigerant and air, an object of the present invention is to extend the surface area of fins while suppressing an increase in ventilation resistance, thereby improving performances of the heat exchanger. Corrugated sheet fins (70) are provided as the fins of the heat exchanger (60). The corrugated sheet fins (70) are each shaped like a corrugated sheet. The ridgeline direction of the waveform of the corrugated sheet fins (70) is orthogonal to front edges and rear edges. In the heat exchanger (60), the plurality of corrugated sheet fins (70) are arranged at constant pitches in the axial direction of the heat transfer tube (61).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Yoshioka, Shuji Ikegami
  • Publication number: 20120152496
    Abstract: An exemplary heat dissipation device includes a first fin unit, a second fin unit, a heat pipe, a first base and a second base. The heat pipe includes a condensing section extended through the first fin unit and the second fin unit and an evaporating section extending from the condensing section. The evaporating section includes a first heat absorbing portion extended through the first fin unit and a second heat absorbing portion spaced from the second fin unit. The first base is located at one side of the second fin unit and supports the second heat absorbing portion thereon. The second base is covered on the first base. The first and second bases sandwich the second heat absorbing portion therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicants: FOXCONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., FU ZHUN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN LIU, JING ZHANG