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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037930 | Heat exchanger A tube is composed of a first plate and a second plate which are opposed and engaged with each other. In a first region on both end sides of the tube, the first plate is formed into a shape in which an edge portion of the first plate is laid along a bent portion of ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7604044 | Heat exchanger There is provides a heat exchanger comprising: a plurality of tubes (110) stacked on each other; and a pair of header tanks (140), each header tank (140) having a flow section (151) in which fluid flows, extending in a direction of stack ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7422054 | Heat exchanger assembly for a charge air cooler A heat exchanger assembly for an internal combustion engine charge air cooler is formed from a plurality of aluminum modules, each provided with longitudinal through bores and opposite outer face portions with toothed heat exchange fins positioned in face-to-face re... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7398779 | Thermosiphoning system with side mounted storage tanks An improved thermosiphon solar heater is disclosed. The thermosiphon solar heater includes a substantially planar collector including a plurality of heat exchanger channels that are positioned next to one another in a parallel relationship. The thermosiphoning solar... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7367388 | Evaporator for carbon dioxide air-conditioner A core includes heat-exchange tubes and radiation fins are alternately stacked on each other. The heat-exchange tubes define refrigerant passages. A header tank is connected to the heat-exchange tubes. A partition separates the header tank into first and second head... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367386 | Air cooled oil cooler An air cooled oil cooler has an upper plate, a lower plate and a plurality of tubes and outer fins disposed therebetween. Each tube contains an inner offset fin, and the outer fins formed in a corrugated shape and each having one return louver on an intermediate por... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367387 | Tube plate for exhaust heat exchanger A tube plate for exhaust heat exchangers, with punched openings to hold the tube ends of a tube bundle, wherein the openings are arranged grid-like with a web width b, and each of the openings has a shear surface with a height h produced by punching, and a bevel of ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7341098 | Heat exchanger and method of producing A heat exchanger including a collecting tank having an outwardly extending flange around an edge, a tube plate having a connection edge, tubes having ends extending into openings in the tube plate, and an intermediate plate having an edge lying against the connectio... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337833 | Circuit element for heat exchanger, in particular for motor vehicle, and resulting heat exchanger The invention relates to a hydraulic circuit element (20) for heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid, which defines a path for the first fluid and comprises at least one tube (22) having two ends and at least one tip (24) at one ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331382 | Heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger manifold The present invention relates to a heat exchanger having a cooling core consisting of a plurality of parallel, heat exchanging tubes and two manifolds provided with slots, where the ends of heat exchanging tubes are inserted in fluid connection with each manifold an... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318470 | Device for exchanging heat The invention relates to a device for exchanging heat, particularly for use in motor vehicle air-conditioning systems, comprising at least one coolant, at least one coolant inlet (3), and at least one coolant outlet (4), which lead into at least one he... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318432 | Solar collector plate method for safeguarding the operation of a solar collector and method for manufacturing a solar collector plate A solar collector plate (2) has a solar radiation receiving front absorber plane (3) that is wiped at its rear side by a cooling liquid (4) flowing in channels (5). Cavities (7), preferably behind the channels (5) and integr... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7296620 | Heat exchanger apparatus incorporating elliptically-shaped serpentine tube bodies A heat exchanger apparatus includes an inlet header, an inlet connection connected to the inlet header, an outlet header, an outlet connection connected to the outlet header and a plurality of serpentine tube bodies. The plurality of serpentine tube bodies interconn... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7290597 | Heat exchanger An object of the present invention is to provide a specific relationship to be achieved by numerical values selected to sustain a desired level of coolant distributability as well as miniaturization and weight reduction for tanks in a heat exchanger adopting a struc... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287575 | Component for supporting a filter member, a device including a tubular filter member and said component, a plate heat exchanger including a tubular filter member and said component The invention relates to a component (20) for supporting a tubular filter member (15) in a portable channel (2) in a plate heat exchanger (1). The invention also relates to a device including the component (20) and the filter membe... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7258159 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat tubes. The flat tubes have a pair of tube sheets facing each other and joined together. The tube sheets have a flat part, a recess part, and a cylindrical tank. The tube sheet is one of a first tube sheet and a second tu... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246437 | Heat exchanger for cooling exhaust gas and method of manufacturing same A heat exchanger for cooling exhaust gas, around which a liquid cooling medium flows on the outside, including a bundle of rectangular tubes provided as ducts for the exhaust gas whose ends are welded into tube bottoms. The bundle of rectangular tubes is surrounded ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240724 | Monolithic tube sheet and method of manufacture A monolithic refractory ceramic tube sheet for use in all-ceramic air-to-air indirect heat exchangers, the heat exchanger used in all temperature and all pressure applications. A method for forming the monolithic tube sheet includes casting a refractory ceramic in a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234335 | Method for producing a head element for heaters According to a method for producing head elements for heaters, a piece of sheet metal (1) is deep drawn and cut along the edge (9) of an open side (6) to obtain a hollow body (8) with larger and narrower sides (4,5,14,15). An apert... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234515 | Heat exchanger for a motor vehicle A heat exchanger, particularly a flat-tube heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, which includes two coolant boxes and a tube block with an inlet tube attached to one of the boxes and an outlet tube attached to another of the boxes, and wherein each tube extends at lea... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7234511 | Modular heat exchanger having a brazed core and method for forming An improved modular heat exchanger suitable for automotive applications, and particularly radiators for heavy duty equipment, and methods for forming the modular heat exchanger. The modular heat exchanger construction incorporates a brazed core assembly composed of ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7222663 | Evaporator and vehicle provided with refrigeration cycle having the same An evaporator having front and rear heat exchange assemblies arranged at air inlet and outlet sides, respectively, and adjacent to each other. Each heat exchange assembly includes a pair of upper and lower headers, and multiple refrigerant channels each having upper... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222664 | Heat exchanger plate and this exchanger The heat exchanger plates have the section shown, with raised sections on the upper and lower faces in which run the flow pipes of one of the fluids. Notches are created on the longitudinal ends to allow these pipes to communicate, their supply and evacuation from a... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207378 | Heat exchanger design based on partial stain energy density ratio A heat exchanger assembly that addresses the thermal cycling problem to increase the durability of the heat exchanger core by fabricating at least the tube next adjacent to each of the reinforcing members with a cross section adjacent each of the headers including a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201213 | Keel cooler with fluid flow diverter A keel cooler having a standard header with an internal beveled bottom wall, with orifices on the inner wall of the exterior tubes extending into the header, the orifices being in the natural flow path of the coolant flow. The orifices are sufficiently large so as n... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201216 | Heat exchanger, in particular oil cooler for a motor vehicle A heat exchanger, preferably an oil cooler (1) for a motor vehicle, comprises stacked flat tubes (2, 3, 4), which have tube ends with apertures for admitting and discharging oil, which flows through the flat tubes (2, 3, 4) in their longitudinal... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201218 | Header tank for heat exchanger A pipe of a header pipe is formed by combining two separated bodies separated along a longitudinal direction. The first separated body has a tube holding wall portion including an insertion hole inserting a flat tube thereto, and a pair of straight portions protrude... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195060 | Stacked-tube heat exchanger A headerless heat exchanger has a core comprised of a stack of flat tubes of rectangular cross section through which a first heat exchange fluid passes. The tubes are expanded in height at their end portions to provide spaces between adjacent plate pairs for passage... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191769 | Internal combustion engine having two-stage exhaust-driven supercharger and charge air cooling between low pressure and high pressure compressors An internal combustion engine with a 2-stage charge loading includes a connection conduit with a supercharger intercooler provided between the compressors of the low pressure stage and high pressure stage. The supercharger intercooler is configured via a cooling uni... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7165606 | Heat exchanging tube and heat exchanger A heat exchanging tube is provided with a flat tube main body having a predetermined length and a plurality of refrigerant passages extending in a tube longitudinal direction and arranged in a tube widthwise direction. The following relational equations (a) to (c) a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7159650 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger (20) includes a stack (22) of heat exchanger tubes (24), with the stack (22) having a pair of spaced ends (26, 28) that are received into respective manifolds (30, 32) that direct a first fluid (33), ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159648 | Weather protected heat exchanger A heat exchanger including upper and lower header tanks, a vertical baffle in the lower header tank defining first and second longitudinal chambers, a check valve, two tube rows, and a coolant inlet to the first chamber and outlet from the second chamber. The baffle... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156165 | Tank for heat exchanger In tubular portion of a tank, slits are formed in each side face of chambers or across all side faces of the chambers. For partition plates that are to be inserted from the slits, groove portions in which the partition plates are fitted are formed by cutting portion... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152668 | Heat exchanger for vehicles The invention relates to a heat exchanger for vehicles. The heat exchanger includes a core provided with a row of spaced heat exchanger tubes, open at their ends, and at least one dosed container arranged in the tube end regions for the distribution of a medium flow... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152669 | End cap with an integral flow diverter An end cap closes the open end of the tank. The end cap is comprised of an inlet diverter wall and tube diverter wall. The inlet diverter wall extends into the tank across the inlet axis for redirecting fluid from the inlet and longitudinally into the tank along the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7126898 | Information recording method and apparatus with additional recording function An information recording apparatus includes: a unit for applying a predetermined processing to record information divided into error correction units and generating processed record information including a plurality of record units; and a unit for recording, the pro... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7121330 | Heat exchange unit A heat exchange unit includes metallic heat transfer members combined with each other. Each heat transfer member has a heat transfer face having opposite surfaces with which first and second heat exchange fluids come into contact, respectively. Welded-together flat ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7121332 | Heat exchanger Heat exchanger (1), in particular a gas condenser for a CO2 coolant, comprising at least one two-part collector chamber (4) consisting of a base (3) and a cover (5) and a heat exchanger network consisting of flat tubes (2 | 10/17/2006 |
| 7086249 | Refrigerant distribution device and method A refrigerant distribution device 10 situated in an inlet header 12 of a multiple tube heat exchanger 14 of a refrigeration system 20. The device 10 includes an inlet passage 32 that is in communication with an expansion dev... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077192 | Manifold with integrated pipe for a heat exchanger A manifold for, e.g. a motor vehicle heat exchanger, has a first part formed from a shaped metal sheet and bottom and two lateral walls folded face-to-face, at least one of which is provided with an aperture for fixing a pipe there. A second part is shaped metal she... | 07/18/2006 |
