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Laminate-type heat exchanger

US5222551A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 20, 1992
Grant dateJun 29, 1993
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Expiry dateNov 20, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF28F3/046
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A laminate-type heat exchanger having a plurality of component plates each having a flange and projection formed along the circumference thereof, raised portions and hollowed portions formed at both ends of an area surrounded by the projection and which define together reservoirs, respectively, and an intermediate wall formed in an area except for the raised and hollowed portions and which has a height equal to half of the flange and raised portions, the plates adjacent at one side being laminated one on another with one side of the plate set opposite to the same side of the adjacent one and brazed to each other at their respective flanges and hollowed portions while the plates adjacent at the other side being laminated one on another are brazed to each other at their respective projections and raised portions.

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