Abstract: A method of forming a heat exchanger apparatus on a housing wall. The heat exchanger includes inner and outer annular rings. The rings have heat radiating, high surface area fins attached on oppositely facing surfaces. The inner ring has a radially outwardly facing surface that abuts the interior surface of the housing sidewall. The outer ring has a radially inwardly facing surface that abuts the exterior surface of the housing sidewall. When displaced longitudinally along the ring axes, which are coincidental, the sidewall is clampingly engaged therebetween, and an excellent thermal flow path is formed. Heat transferred into the inner fins from a working gas is conducted to the inner ring, through the sidewall, into the outer ring, then into the outer fins. Air impinging upon the outer fins absorbs the heat from the outer fins.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a roll-formed product for a roll-forming unit has at least a roll-forming machine. The cutting apparatus has a cutter mechanism arranged downstream of the roll-forming machine, for cutting the roll-formed product sent out from the roll-forming machine into a predetermined cut length. The cutters apparatus further has a feed roller rotatable at a controlled rotational speed, for sending out a formed product cut by the cutter mechanism.

Abstract: A machine may produce a tube having textured internal and external surfaces in a single operation. Inner and outer knurling tools may form the textured surfaces. The texturing of the internal and external surfaces may be helical patterns of ribs and grooves. The height of the ribs formed in the internal and external surfaces may be less than about 35 mils. The angles of the patterns relative to a longitudinal axis of the tube may be less than about 45°. The angle of the helical pattern allows textured tubes to be used as heat exchanger elements wherein flow is directed substantially coaxial to the longitudinal axes of the tubes. The helical pattern formed in the external surface may be oriented in a right hand or left hand helical orientation. Similarly, the helical pattern formed in the internal surface may be oriented in a right hand or left hand orientation.

Abstract: An internally-grooved heat exchanger tube according to the present invention is structured such that the internal surface is divided into a plurality of continuous areas (W1, W2) parallel to the axial direction (L) of the tube, a large number of fins (10, 11) different in at least one selected among lead angle (&thgr;, &thgr;′) to the axial direction (L) of the tube, fin vertical angle (&agr;, &agr;′) and fin pitch (p, p′) are formed in the adjacent areas (W1, W2), and a boundary portion (a) between the adjacent areas (W1, W2) is formed in the state of meandering to the axial direction (L) of the tube.

Abstract: A V-shaped metal strip has a U-shaped bottom having U-shaped inside and outside surfaces. Only the U-shaped inside surface is formed with a plurality of fold lines extending in a longitudinal direction of the strip and reducing the influence of springback. The fold lines may be arranged in a manner of bilateral symmetry with respect to an imaginary median plane bisecting the V-shaped cross section of the metal strip.

Abstract: A tube for a heat exchanger which is formed to have beads for dividing passages for a medium in the tube by roll forming, wherein base portions of the beads are formed to have a thickness (B) greater than a thickness of a plate material for the tube. The roll forming has a first step of sequentially bending the plate to have a depressed shape to form portions-to-be-bead which are to be intermediate forms of the beads, a second step of performing a width drawing of the portions-to-be-bead and a third step of compressing the portions-to-be-bead, after the second step, in a direction of the height of the beads, wherein a width (w′) of the depressions of the portions-to-be-bead (21a) in the first step is larger than a width (w) of depressions of beads (21) after forming, and a height (h′) of portions-to-be-bead (21b) after the second step is determined to be higher than a height (h) of the beads (21) after forming.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for making a heat exchanger tube (14) for a heat exchanger (10) in which a continuous insert (26), having convolutes transverse to the length of the tube are located into a continuous shell as the shell is being formed. After placing the insert (26) into the partially open shell, the shell is closed and sealed as it passes through a bonding device (64) to seal the longitudinal edges of the shell to each other and the insert to the internal walls of the tube. The continuous shell with the inserted fin insert is subsequently sliced to produce individual cooling tubes.

Abstract: A folded tube and method of making the same for a heat exchanger includes a base, a top spaced from and opposing the base, a first side interposed between the base and the top along one side thereof, and a second side interposed between the base and the top along another side thereof. The folded tube includes at least one of the base and the top having at least one internal web having an initial web width and initial outside shoulder radius and being compressed to compress the at least one internal web to a final web width less than the initial web width and a final outside shoulder radius less than the initial outside shoulder radius and defining a plurality of fluid ports.

Abstract: A tube for a heat exchanger has a cross-section having two opposed side walls and two opposed ends. The ends have curved portions and one of the ends has a double wall comprising an inner wall and an outer wall. One of these side walls extends to form the outer wall and the other of the side walls extends to form the inner wall. Each of the outer and inner walls has a respective extremity, the inner wall being offset inwardly to accommodate the extremity of the outer wall and the extremity of the inner wall deviating away from the outer wall.

Abstract: This invention is a process for making micro-multiport tubing for use in automobile air conditioner heat exchangers. The tubing is a flat body with a row of side-by-side passageways, which are separated by upright webs. Processing of this tubing involves extrusion, a straightening and cutting operation, assembly and furnace brazing of the condenser. This invention improves the grain size of the metal in the tubing and also improves the metallurgical strength of the tubing. Ports are formed in the tubing during extrusion. These ports are separated by webs and the webs are extruded so that they have a reduced thickness at their centers. In response to successive cold working of the body, the webs are changed in shape to a more uniform thickness state. Stated other wise, in this invention, the webs are initially of hour glass shape such that when there is five percent change in material thickness, the strain is concentrated at the center of the web and results in at least fifteen percent cold work.

Abstract: A miniature recycle-type heat exchanger to produce recycle-type heat exchangers from high extensibility, high plasticity aluminum or copper billets (ingots) utilizing a pressure forming press to extrude lightweight, thin, and small form factor recycle-type heat exchangers. The production method includes annealing copper and aluminum billet (ingot) material, conveying the material to a vibrator for placement in an ordered arrangement, and then conveying and fixing the material onto molds in a pressure forming press for the extrusion tasks required to fabricate the heat exchanger bodies. In the final stage after shaping and determination of the fluid input direction, the bodies are placed in a vacuum sputtering machine to undergo a rough textured heat conductive microparticulate deposition process to complete the production of miniature recycle-type heat exchangers that are of very compact dimensions and lightweight, but have a large heat exchange capacity and, furthermore, a high heat transfer rate.

Abstract: A cold plate includes two flow-wise isolated coolant (or refrigerant) passages (or sets of passages) originating at the center of the cold plate and terminating at an edge for use in conjunction with separate refrigeration systems. The cold plate passages are centrally fed by the refrigeration system to create a cooling gradient radiating from the center of the cold plate to its edges. The center-fed cold plate provides a more even temperature gradient across the thermal source. The cold plate passages do not permit flow communication between distinct coolant (or refrigerant) paths. This permits two distinct cooling systems to operate either dually or in a redundant manner. Nonetheless, flow isolation is achieved while still maintaining tight thermal coupling between each path and the object, such as an electronic computer processor module, to be cooled.