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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426957 | Stacked plate-type heat exchanger The invention relates to a stacked panel-shaped heat transmitter comprising a plurality of interstacked trough-shaped panels (23,24) of a first and second type forming therebetween flow channels (25,26) for a first medium at a first height h and for a ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7404434 | Stacked plate heat exchangers and heat exchanger plates A plate-type heat exchanger is comprised of a stack of dished plates, with the plates being sealed at their margins by nesting sidewalls and the plate bottoms being spaced from one another to define a plurality of flow passages. Each of the plates has two pairs of o... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7318451 | Flapper valves with spring tabs A flapper valve assembly has a valve plate for attachment to a fluid device, such as a heat exchanger. The valve plate has a fluid port for permitting intermittent flow to or from a flow chamber in the fluid device. A resilient flapper covers the fluid port and has ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7311139 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger is provided for dissipating heat from a fluid. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of stacked pairs of plates. Each pair of plates includes a first plate and a second plate. The first plate extends along a first axis and has first and second sid... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7293603 | Plastic oil cooler A heat exchanger transfers heat between primary and secondary fluid coolants. A housing has a longitudinal central axis lying within a transverse housing plane. A bottom wall with a concave inner surface faces upward and extends along the central axis. A plurality o... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287574 | Attachment and articles using same There is disclosed an attachment (12) suitable for attaching a first component of an article to a second component of the article. The attachment preferably includes a flange portion (20) extending from the first component and one, but preferably, a pa... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7261080 | Oil cooling system of an air-cooled engine An oil cooling system of an air-cooled engine for cooling the oil reserved in a crankcase of the engine comprises a base plate assembled to the crankcase, an overlapping plate assembled to the base plate; an oil filter supported in the overlapping plate; and radiati... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255159 | Insert for heat exchanger tube An insert adapted to connect to opposite walls in a heat exchanger tube, including a corrugated sheet having alternating wave crests and wave troughs connected by wave flanks having openings therein, wherein at least some of the wave crests have a length different t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7222641 | Snap-in flapper valve assembly A flapper valve snaps into position in an inlet or outlet manifold of a heat exchanger to provide by-pass flow in cold flow or pressure spike conditions. The flapper valve includes a cradle having opposed spring fingers for retaining the valve in position. The cradl... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216736 | Vibration suppression device of power train A heat exchanger, which performs heat exchanging between a lubricating oil circulating within a transfer device disposed behind an engine and an engine coolant, also functions as a mass member of a dynamic damper. The heat exchanger is disposed at an upper face of a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210522 | Arrangement for cooling a vehicle component The invention constitutes an arrangement for cooling a vehicle component, for example a transmission, disposed adjacent to an engine, which arrangement includes a cooling circuit designed to feed a coolant through the transmission and including a line for coolant to... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7178581 | Plate-type heat exchanger A heat exchanger has oil core plates and coolant core plates disposed in alternating, stacked relationship. Flow passages are provided between adjacent plates, so that the oil flow passages alternate with the coolant flow passages, and the oil can flow from an oil i... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7147040 | Heat exchanger with tank utilizing integral positioning guides A heat exchanger is disclosed. A plurality of guides are integrally formed with the walls of a header tank and are used to position an oil cooler inside the tank to align a pair of fittings carried by the cooler with a pair of spaced openings in the tank. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7073570 | Automotive heat exchanger A heat exchanger includes a first section and a second section for cooling distinct fluids, wherein the second section is adapted for cooling oil. The heat exchanger includes first and second manifolds divided by baffles into first and second chambers. A plurality o... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073576 | System for the circulation of the coolant of the oil cooler for the automatic transmission of a motor vehicle Circulation system for the coolant in an oil cooler (13) adapted to cool down the oil of the automatic transmission (2) of a motor vehicle in which the drain conduit (15) for the coolant from the oil cooler (13) of the transmission (2 | 07/11/2006 |
| 7007749 | Housing-less plate heat exchanger A housing-less plate heat exchanger is provided for transferring heat between at least a first fluid and a second fluid. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange plates stacked to enclose flow channels for the first and second fluids between the plat... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6994784 | Liquid filter/heat exchanger unit A liquid filter/heat exchanger unit including a liquid filter and a heat exchanger, the liquid filter having a filter element in a filter housing. To bypass the heat exchanger, there is a bypass connecting the heat exchanger inlet directly to the unfiltered side of ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6994150 | Engine guard oil cooler An integrated engine guard oil cooler is mounted to a motorcycle. The cooler is a hollow tube having an inlet, an outlet, a plurality of cross-sectional restrictions in its interior, and a plurality of radial cooling fins on its exterior. The tube has a shape such t... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6988541 | Oil-cooler-equipped radiator An oil cooler is held by holding plates. Top portions of side pieces of each holding plate are disposed through a side wall of a tank and are bent at the outer surface of the tank, so that circular interposed members and the oil cooler are retained by being sandwich... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6976531 | Heat exchanger, method of forming a sleeve which may be used in the heat exchanger, and a sleeve formed by the method A heat exchanger in which a heat exchanger core is disposed within a casing which includes a side wall formed by bending a plate into the form of a sleeve in which edges of the plate are in adjacent, confronting relationship with an inwardly projecting, transversely... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6913068 | Engine exhaust heat recovering apparatus A circulating path 12 is provided for circulating a heat transfer medium across the cooling section 6A and an exhaust heat exchanger 9. The circulating path 12 is communicated to an output heat exchanger which is mounted on a hot water st... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6886624 | Compact cooling system A compact cooling system includes a mounting panel adapted to receive a plurality of at least three cooling units, a cooling fan, and a fan drive mechanism. The mounting panel supports the fan and drive mechanism in a manner allowing rotation of the fan about the ax... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6863122 | Heat exchanger with nested flange-formed passageway A heat exchanger has oil core plates and coolant core plates disposed in alternating, stacked relationship. Flow passages are provided between adjacent plates, so that the oil flow passages alternate with the coolant flow passages, and the oil can flow from an oil i... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6843311 | Inverted lid sealing plate for heat exchanger A stacked plate-type heat exchanger including a plurality of dish-shaped heat exchanger plates arranged one next to the other to form a nested heat exchanger plate stack. A plurality of first and second fluid flow channels are formed between the heat exchanger plate... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6832643 | Cooling system, especially for a vehicle Optimization of the efficiency of a compact cooling system for air cooling of at least two different heat exchange fluids is obtained in a construction including three heat exchangers (10), (12), (14) arranged in a housing-like shape with an ope... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6830096 | Heat pipe for differential assembly An apparatus to regulate and control the temperature of an axle assembly for a vehicle. A heat pipe is inserted though the axle housing cover, the heat pipe travels the length of the cover. Near the lower region of the carrier and beneath the lubricating fluid level... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6830527 | Cooling system for working fluid used in automatic transmission of automotive vehicle In a transmission-fluid cooling system of an automatic transmission of an automotive vehicle equipped with a water-cooled oil cooler and an air-cooled oil cooler connected in series to each other, a first bypass valve is provided to permit working fluid to circulate... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6814133 | Heat exchanger for cooling oil with water A heat exchanger for cooling oil with water includes (a) oil and water chambers alternately arranged to form a core portion; (b) a through hole formed in the core portion to allow an oil flow therethrough; (c) first and second oil passages communicating with the oil... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6740000 | Cooling system for working fluid used in automatic transmission of automotive vehicle In a transmission-fluid cooling system of an automatic transmission of an automotive vehicle equipped with a water-cooled oil cooler and an air-cooled oil cooler connected in series to each other, a first bypass valve is provided to permit working fluid to circulate... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6681846 | Heat exchanger The invention relates to a heat exchanger, particularly of cross-current design, through which at least two separate media can flow. It comprises plates which are stacked on one another and which are spaced apart from one another in some areas and are in ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6675878 | Angled turbulator for use in heat exchangers A turbulator (60A-60K) is provided for use in the heat exchange units (34) of heat exchangers. The turbulator (60A-60K) includes a sheet (62A, 62C) of material. The sheet (62A, 62C) includes a plurality of strand-like rows (64A, 64C) of alternating crests... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6672377 | Oil cooler An oil cooler comprises an inner water pipe, an outer oil pipe, a strainer pipe sleeved between oil pipe and water pipe, and a connector mechanism at either end of oil cooler and including a hollow cylindrical connector having a passage coupled to water p... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6595271 | Heat exchanger of aluminum A heat exchanger made of aluminum includes a plurality of first plates and a plurality of second plates stacked alternately in the direction along the thickness thereof. The first plates and the second plates each constitute a three-layer structure. A fir... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591896 | Method and system for providing a transmission fluid heat exchanger in-line with respect to an engine cooling system A system and method for providing a transmission fluid heat exchanger which is external to an engine radiator, an in-line with respect to radiator hose coupled to the engine radiator.... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6564857 | Compact cooling system A compact cooling system includes a mounting panel adapted to receive a plurality of at least three cooling units, a cooling fan, and a fan drive mechanism. The mounting panel supports the fan and drive mechanism in a manner allowing rotation of the fan a... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6546996 | Oil cooler An oil cooler for an internal combustion engine includes an oil circuit and a cooling circuit arranged in a housing with inlet opening and outlet openings. The housing has a generally annular, C-shaped structure which forms a central, axial cylindrical bo... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6527046 | Heat exchanger, particularly oil cooler A heat exchanger has a core provided with passages for a liquid to keep cool and passages for a cooling medium, a first collection tank for supplying the liquid, a second collection tank for withdrawing the liquid, at least one third collection tank, the ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6523605 | Heat exchanger made of an aluminum alloy There is disclosed a heat exchanger made of an aluminum alloy having a radiator part (10) and an oil cooler part (11) in combination and manufactured integrally by the brazing method, wherein a refrigerant tank (13) for covering and sealing the oil cooler... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6497274 | Heat exchanger with parallel flowing fluids A heat exchanger having a plurality of stacked plate pairs consisting of face-to-face mating plates with each plate having a peripheral flange and annular inner and outer primary bosses. Each boss has a portion thereof located in a common first plane with... | 12/24/2002 |
