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Class 165/906 - REINFORCEMENT


Subclass of Class 165 - Heat exchange
Definition: Apparatus having structure reinforcing an element of the
No. of patents: 122
Last issue date: 10/28/2008


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7441620Radiator and isolation and mount system
A heat exchanger and mount isolation system (10) is provided and includes a heat exchanger (12) for a vehicular application, a pair of side frame members (14,16) for mounting the heat exchanger (12) to a vehicle, and four pairs (18...
10/28/2008
7426958Header for heat exchanger
A header for a heat exchanger includes a substantially planar base portion and a pair of step portions. The step portions are angled from the plane of the base portion. The header is also provided with a plurality of substantially parallel slots spaced apart along t...
09/23/2008
7426955Core structure of heat exchanger
A core structure of a heat exchanger includes seat plates arranged opposite to each other with a predetermined space interposed between them and formed with tube holes, reinforcements connecting the seat plates at their end portions, tubes fixed at its both end port...
09/23/2008
7422054Heat 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
7413005Heat exchanger, especially charge air cooler for motor vehicles
The invention relates to a heat exchanger, especially a charge air cooler (5) for motor vehicles. Said heat exchanger comprises a heat exchange block which is constituted of flat tubes (6) having flat tube ends and ribs (7) and tube bottoms (...
08/19/2008
7398819Minichannel heat exchanger with restrictive inserts
A comb-like insert having a body and plurality of tapered fingers is installed with its fingers disposed within respective minichannels. The fingers and their respective minichannels are so sized as to restrict the channels and frictionally hold the insert in place ...
07/15/2008
7353864Apparatus for reducing thermal fatigue in heat exchanger cores
A heat exchanger uses a skeleton forming of a lattice of first and second bars to provide a box-like structure. Blocking bars are arranged between gaps in the first and second bars to provide a blocking surface to divert airflow around a portion of the heat exchange...
04/08/2008
7267161Heat exchanger comprising a supercritical carbon-dioxide circuit
The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a supercritical carbon-dioxide circuit comprising a plurality of tubes (1). The heat exchanger is original in that at least one section of the tubes (1) have surface irregularities (3) ...
09/11/2007
7246436Plate package, method of manufacturing a plate package, use of a plate package and plate heat exchanger comprising a plate package
The invention refers to a plate package for a plate heat exchanger, a method for manufacturing a plate package, a use of a plate package, and a plate heat exchanger. The plate package includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates (1), which are stacked on eac...
07/24/2007
7213635Heat exchanger with reinforcement means
A heat exchanger including plates with a pattern of grooves and connections for inlets and outlets. The plates are placed in a pack and brazed so that separate channels for two media area are formed between alternating pair of plates. A set of holes is arranged in t...
05/08/2007
7198097Angled ribs for heat exchanger tanks
The present invention relates to the field of automotive heat exchangers, and, in particular, to ribbed heat exchanger tanks. This invention uses ribs that are oriented perpendicular to the local wall bending axes, and, therefore, not necessarily perpendicular to or...
04/03/2007
7065873Recuperator 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
7040387Heat transfer device
An apparatus for transferring heat from a first fluid to a second fluid, which is separated from the first fluid, having a stack-like or saucer-like structure comprising at least two plies (1, 2, 3), in particular plates (1, 2, 3), whereby each ply (
05/09/2006
6994153Heat discharger suitable for application to heat pipes
One object of the present invention is to realize a heat discharger having a high precision and in which heat conduction efficiency is maintained at the bonding between the heat pipe and heat sink. A heat discharger comprises a heat pipe and a heat sink formed separ...
02/07/2006
6918434Reinforced stacked plate heat exchanger
A heat exchanger with a plurality of stacked plates between a cover plate and a base plate. Channels are defined between the plates, with each plate including four openings defining four passages through the stacked plates, two passages being input and output passag...
07/19/2005
6918432Heat exchanger
In the fin 112 on the front grille side which is an upstream side of the air current, there is provided a reinforcing portion 112c formed when the fin 112 is made into a wave-shape. By this reinforcing portion 112c, it is po...
07/19/2005
6889751Latent heat storage device
A low volume, high capacity latent heat storage device is achieved in a construction including a salt case (12) with an optional outer jacket (10) surrounding the salt case (12) in spaced relation thereto to define an insulating space (14...
05/10/2005
6729382Condenser for vehicle air-conditioning systems
A condenser for vehicle air-conditioning systems, comprising a pair of parallel distributors (12) between which there is set a heat-exchange core (14) including a plurality of pipes (16) having a flat cross section, which are parallel to one ano...
05/04/2004
6702005Plate heat exchanger
The present invention is a plate heat exchanger for heat transfer between two fluids, having several thin heat transfer plates (1) abutting towards each other and between the heat transfer plates (1) arranged sealing members (6), which in alternate plate ...
03/09/2004
6688382Heat exchanger tube
A flat, heat exchanger tube formed by rolling metal strip to fold inwardly the lateral edge regions of the strip to provide a tube having parallel, spaced, generally planar upper and lower walls, one of said lateral edge regions being bent to define a lon...
02/10/2004
6662863Structure of heat exchanger tank
A tank body 3 is formed in the shape of an elongated groove having an intermediate first slit 5 disposed at its middle portion in the longitudinal direction and having a pair of end first slits 5a disposed at its opposite ends. A reinforcement member 9 is...
12/16/2003
6607026Heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device including a thermal loop equipped with an evaporator
A heat exchanger for a heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device including a thermal loop equipped with a heat exchanger, is characterized in that at least one of the first and second longitudinal ends (92) of at least one partition plate (20) a...
08/19/2003
6540015Heat exchanger and method for manufacturing the same
A heat exchanger includes a first tube in which water flows and a second tube in which refrigerant flows, and performs heat exchange between water and refrigerant. The first tube and the second tube are bonded to each other by brazing at joint surfaces th...
04/01/2003
6520252Heat exchanger assembly with core-reinforcing closure bars
A heat exchanger assembly includes a plurality of fluid flow pathways including fins. Closure bars associated with each of the layers have a core reinforcing portion. Each core reinforcing portion includes first and second reinforcing members with a modif...
02/18/2003
6513579Post braze heat exchanger mounting and support brackets
An automotive condenser includes closely nested, plastic molded support brackets solidly tightly fitted to the four corners thereof, post braze and with no separate fasteners, which adhere to the corners solidly enough to prevent any significant twisting ...
02/04/2003
6510893Heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device including a thermal loop equipped with a heat exchanger
A heat exchanger, e.g. an evaporator, has end plates arranged at two opposite axial ends and at least a part of which is secured, particularly by brazing, to an orientation plate. At least one edge of said part has no region which is not secured to said o...
01/28/2003
6460614Substantially flat enamelled metal heat exchanger
The heat exchanger according to the invention consists of two flat or slightly incurved parallel surfaces formed in two sheets of metal (2) and (3). The longitudinal edge pieces (8) and (9) and transverse edge pieces (12) and (13) have rounded edges. The ...
10/08/2002
6408940Heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device including a thermal loop equipped with an evaporator
A heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device has a heat exchanger consisting of a stack of orientation plates (1, 20) having a first and a second opposite longitudinal ends, certain orientation plates having separation elements intended to divert...
06/25/2002
6357521Heat exchanger having header tank
A radiator has plural metal tubes and a metal header tank. The header tank has plural connection portions each of which is connected to each of the tubes, and plural reinforcement ribs formed opposite the connection portions at a non-connection portion of...
03/19/2002
6343646Heat exchanger with flexible tubes especially for a motor vehicle
A motor vehicle heat exchanger has a bundle (10) formed solely from flexible tubes (12) made of plastics, as well as two end blocks (22, 24) joining these tubes. The heat exchanger further has at least one spacer (50) arranged at a chosen location between...
02/05/2002
6223812Heat exchanger core connection
The invention relates to a heat exchanger core for use in a fluid cooling apparatus, of the type comprising two tanks (12, 13), each provided with a tube plate (17), and a number of parallel tubes (15) through which the fluid to be cooled flows and around...
05/01/2001
6196305Radiator assembly
A radiator assembly for a cooling system on an internal combustion engine includes a radiator core having a plurality of tube-flow passages for transferring heat from fluid coolant to ambient atmosphere and at least one tank in fluid communication between...
03/06/2001
6142217Motor vehicle flat tube heat exchanger with flat tubes retained on collars of a tube bottom
The invention refers to a flat tube heat exchanger for motor vehicles in which the flat tubes leaving an internally projecting free end as an overhand are inserted in collars which extend to the inside and which are opened up in the form of a tulip of sli...
11/07/2000
6125646Heating or cooling arrangement in a motor vehicle
A heating or cooling arrangement in a motor vehicle is provided with an equipment block, in which a heat exchanger, an evaporator, a condenser or a cooler are arranged on the inlet and outlet pipes. The heat exchanger, evaporator, condenser or cooler is s...
10/03/2000
6102112Thermally conductive support structure
A structure for supporting and at least transferring heat energy away from at least a first heat source interconnected thereto is disclosed. In one embodiment, the structure includes a deck member having a plurality of layers of thermally conductive fiber...
08/15/2000
6098705Coil type condenser for refrigerator
A coil type condenser for a refrigerator holds a flow of air which cools the condenser by securing a condenser length enough to radiate heat and simultaneously holding enough pitch. In the coil type condenser, a pipe is wound spirally to face a blowing di...
08/08/2000
6098701Plate heat exchanger
A plate heat exchanger (1) comprises a stack of heat transfer plates (2) provided between two end pieces (3, 4) and each having an essentially plane extension. Each end piece (3, 4) has an inner surface (9) facing said heat transfer plates and an outer su...
08/08/2000
6082439Heat exchanger assembled without brazing in which adhesive is used to seal a combined portion and a core plate
In a mechanically assembled type heat exchanger, in which an end portion of an oval tube is inserted into a barring hole of a core plate and expanded to be press fit to the core plate. Then adhesive is potted on the core plate for sealing the press fit po...
07/04/2000
6082448Collector for a motor vehicle heat exchanger with a partitioning made of crossing flat strips
The invention relates to a header of a heat exchanger for motor vehicles with an at least two-part design of the header of a tube bottom and a cap, which together form, optionally with at least one further component, the housing of the header. According t...
07/04/2000
6050329Cooling fin with reinforcing ripples
A liquid-filled cooling fin generally includes two roughly rectangular opposing fin walls separated by a relatively thin liquid space or chamber. In this invention the fin walls have reinforcing ripples to increase fin wall rigidity and resistance to defo...
04/18/2000
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