Patent · US Expired

Heat exchanger

US3993126A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 25, 1974
Grant dateNov 23, 1976
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Expiry dateJul 25, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49373
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat exchanger of the type having header tanks connected by a number of tubes of heat conductive material which extend between the tanks and which communicate with the tanks by passing through holes in a collector plate forming a wall of each header tank, wherein the collector plates of one or both tanks is formed of a resin compound separated from the interior of its tank by a membrane of a plastics material through which the tubes pass and which is sealed around the tubes, the resin collector plate being bonded to the tubes.

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