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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136579 | Heat exchanger comprising flanges The invention relates to a heat exchanger which is intended, for example, for a motor vehicle and which comprises a tube bundle (2) and spacers which are positioned between the tubes of the bundle in order to promote the exchange of heat. The bundle is define... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8020610 | Exhaust gas heat exchanger and method of operating the same The invention relates to an exhaust gas heat exchanger in an exhaust gas recirculation arrangement. The heat exchanger includes a plate stack which is surrounded by a housing. The plate stack can include two plates which are connected at their longitudinal edges to ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011422 | EGR cooler To provide an EGR cooler which has a small number of parts and achieves compact design with low cost. A plurality of flat tubes, each having a bottom to close an end thereof, is arranged in parallel. An opening of each of the flat tubes penetrates through a tube pla... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7762317 | Heat exchangers with novel ball joints and assemblies and processes using such heat exchangers What is disclosed herein deals with low to medium pressure, high temperature, all ceramic, air-to-air, indirect heat exchangers, novel ball joints, high load-bearing ceramic tube sheets, and tube seal extenders for ceramic tubes that are useful in such heat exchange... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7363964 | Heat sink A heat sink includes a base, a set of fins mounted to the base and a plurality of fixing portions, wherein the fixing portions extend from a surface of the base and the set of fins are mounted on an opposite surface of the base. The heat sink is secured to a printed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7328738 | Heat exchanger An improved heat exchanger which resists fouling of the heat exchange surface by minimizing the temperature difference between the heat exchanger surface and the fluid stream in contact with the heat exchange surface. In one embodiment, a heat exchanger comprises an... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325594 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger having at least one heat exchanger block (1) and an insulating vessel which surrounds the heat exchanger, is provided with plates and joints for securing the heat exchanger block (1) suspended in the insulation vessel. In addition, the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320359 | Liquid cooling element and connection arrangement of liquid cooling element The invention relates to a liquid cooling element for cooling heat generating elements of frequency converters, in particular, and an arrangement for connecting the liquid cooling element. The liquid cooling element 2 is provided with two channel systems: hor... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7320178 | Standoff for cold plate and cold plate made with the standoff A standoff for a cold plate and a cold plate using the standoff are characterized by a coil pack consisting of a plurality of individual fluid conveying tubes formed into a coil pack having a desired configuration and held in place by a plurality of retaining wires.... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7304648 | Generating one or more linear blends A method (1005) generates one or more linear blends. Initially, the method has a list of already received one or more fill-paths defining a current linear blend, and a newly received fill-path, where the fill-paths each comprise a single colored parallelogram... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290503 | High efficiency, wet-base, downfired multi-pass water heater A fuel-fired water heater has a three-pass condensing type heat exchanger disposed within its tank and having a central vertical first pass flue pipe separated into upper and lower portions by an internal dividing structure. Respectively coupled to the upper and low... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285153 | Method and equipment for feeding two gases into and out of a multi-channel monolithic structure A method with associated equipment for feeding two gases into and out of a multi-channel monolithic structure. The two gases will normally be gases with different chemical and/or physical properties. The first gas and the second gas are fed by means of a manifold he... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272005 | Multi-element heat exchange assemblies and methods of fabrication for a cooling system A heat exchange assembly for a cooling system, having first and second cooling loops, includes a housing with a first coolant inlet and outlet and a second coolant inlet and outlet, respectively coupling to the first and second cooling loops, and multiple heat excha... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7261148 | Direct expansion cooler high velocity dished head A dished head header assembly for a heat exchanger having a containment body that includes a rounded, or dished, wall portion forming an interior cavity. A flange attaches to the containment body and fastens the header assembly to the heat exchanger. A plurality of ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254937 | Gas turbine heat exchanger assembly and method for fabricating same A method for assembling a gas turbine engine including a compressor and a combustor includes providing a heat exchanger assembly that includes at least one heat exchanger, and coupling the heat exchanger assembly to the gas turbine engine such that the heat exchange... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7220392 | Fuel conversion reactor A fuel conversion reactor includes a shell-and-tube heat exchanger for controlling the temperature of a hot gaseous mixture produced by catalytic or non-catalytic reaction of a fuel with a gaseous fluid, and for controlling the temperature of the gaseous fluid and/o... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7201214 | Remedies to prevent cracking in a liquid system A liquid cooling system utilizing minimal size and volume enclosures, air pockets, compressible objects, and flexible objects is provided to protect against expansion of water-based solutions when frozen. In such a system, pipes, pumps, and heat exchangers are desig... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7195037 | Modular surface mount manifold A modular manifold system is provided for interconnecting fluid components of a fluid system in a reduced area The system is comprised of a one or more bridge fittings having an internal fluid passageway which has an inlet end in fluid communication with an outlet p... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185698 | Thermal shield for heat exchangers An improved heat exchanger that reduces the thermal stress in components thereof especially tube plates or tube sheets so as to enable greater temperature differences across adjacent components while reducing the temperature gradient and thus extending the life of t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182923 | Reaction chamber that comprises a jacket that contains at least one module that is connected by flexible means to the jacket and that contains heat exchange means A device has a reaction chamber with at least one feed inlet (5) and at least one evacuation outlet (10). An outside jacket (2a) that is resistant to internal pressure is positioned around the device and contains at least one module (4... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178579 | Heat exchanger package with split charge air cooler A combined radiator and charge air cooler package comprises a radiator for cooling engine coolant, and a charge air cooler for cooling charge air having upper and lower portions. The upper charge air cooler portion is disposed in overlapping relationship and adjacen... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172015 | Heat exchanger for air compressor A heat exchanger used in a screw air compressor has a low temperature chamber through which low temperature fluid flows and a high temperature chamber through which high temperature fluid flows. The low temperature chamber and the high temperature chamber are separa... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172737 | Fuel conversion reactor A conversion reactor (10) including an outer shell (12) having first (14) and second (16) ends and an inner surface (16) a primary inner shell (30) extending into the outer shell (12), the primary inner shell (30 | 02/06/2007 |
| 7159645 | Low torque inner gimbal heat remover A cooling assembly for removing heat form an enclosed environment containing a gimbal device. The assembly comprises an exhaust bellows equipped with a device to draw heated air from the heat source to the outer environment an inlet bellows through which cool, outsi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7147033 | Dual drum type continuous casting device and method for continuous casting A twin-drum continuous casting apparatus for casting a metal sheet (4) by supplying molten metal (3) to a pouring basin formed by a pair of cooling drums (1) rotating in opposite directions, and side gates (2), to cool the molten metal ( | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147050 | Recuperator construction for a gas turbine engine A counter-flow recuperator formed from annular arrays of recuperator core segments. The recuperator core segments are formed from two opposing sheets of fin fold material coined to form a primary surface zone disposed between two flattened manifold zones. Each prima... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7144624 | Dendritic fiber material A thermal interface includes nanofibrils. The nanofibrils may be attached to a flat base or membrane, or may be attached to the tip portions of larger diameter fibers. The nanofibrils have a diameter of less than about 1 micron, and may advantageously be formed from... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143605 | Flat-tube evaporator with micro-distributor A flat-tube evaporator and a refrigeration system including a flat-tube evaporator. The flat-tube evaporator can include an inlet manifold, an outlet manifold separated a distance from the inlet manifold, a distributor tube positioned within the inlet manifold and f... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7131489 | Heat exchanger To create a heat exchanger which provides for a high temperature compensation between the media, can at the same time be produced at low cost and satisfies the thermal stresses, it is proposed that the heat exchanger has a first distribution chamber (5) which... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7132161 | Fiber adhesive material A fiber velvet comprising nano-size fibers or nanofibrils attached to micro-size fibers is disclosed. Methods of manufacturing the velvet as well as various uses of the velvet are also described. For example, the fiber velvet can be used as a thermal interface or as... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7128137 | Nested attachment junction for heat exchanger Heat exchangers of this invention include a shell having an inner chamber defined by an inside wall surface, and having at least one opening adjacent an end of the shell. A tube bundle comprising a plurality of assembled together tubes are disposed within the inner ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7128138 | Indirect evaporative cooling heat exchanger A heat exchanger including a header having a plurality of header openings with rigid tubes that may be made of plastic are inserted in the openings. The tubes are sealed to the header to prevent leakage between the header and the tubes to prevent water and air leaka... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117934 | Method and apparatus for minimizing adverse effects of thermal expansion in a heat exchange reactor A heat exchange reactor including a housing, a plurality of tubes mounted in the housing and configured to carry a first fluid, and a baffle having a plurality of holes receiving the tubes. The baffle is configured to guide a second fluid provided within the housing... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7082988 | Heat exchanger with heat deformation absorbing mechanism A heat exchange section (1) composed of a fuel supply part (7); core (5), and steam collecting part (9). A heat exchange section (1) composed of the fuel supply part (7), core (5) and steam collecting part (9) ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7065873 | Recuperator assembly and procedures A construction of recuperator core segments is provided which insures proper assembly of the components of the recuperator core segment, and of a plurality of recuperator core segments. Each recuperator core segment must be constructed so as to prevent nesting of fi... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063131 | Perforated fin heat exchangers and catalytic support Perforated fins are provided to improve the capabilities of fin and tube type heat exchangers, and to adapt them for flow outside of the tube that is essentially parallel to the axis of the tube. The fins are made of a thermally conductive material, such as metal, w... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7059394 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger comprising a plurality of refrigerant pipes bent many times for passing a refrigerant for heat exchange; and cooling fins arranged at an outer circumference surface of the refrigerant pipes for expanding a contact area of air which passes through th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055586 | Multitubular heat exchanger A multi-tube heat exchanger capable of increasing heat exchanging performance without increasing its heat transmitting area, as well as avoiding a reduction in heat exchanging efficiency due to adhering pollutant or the like. The multi-tube heat exchanger includes a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044116 | Exhaust heat exchanger in particular for motor vehicles The invention relates to an exhaust heat exchanger (1), in particular an exhaust cooler for motor vehicles with exhaust recycling, comprising a housing sleeve (2) for a coolant and a nest of tubes (3) with exhaust flowing through and coolant cir... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036563 | Tubesheet support arrangement for a FGTT (flue-gas-through-the-tubes)heat exchanger A tubesheet support arrangement 11 supports a tubesheet 10 within a vessel 12, the tubesheet 10 maintaining a plurality of tubes 22 at fixed radial spacings from one another with the tubes 22 extending from the tubesheet ... | 05/02/2006 |
