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Flat tube heat exchanger with housing

US7631688B2 · kind B2 · utility

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16Claims

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Assignee

Modine Manufacturing Company · US

Inventors

Viktor Brost · Neckartenzlingen, DE
Thomas Eckert · Rancho Cucamonga, US
Denis Bazika · Eßlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 10, 2005
Grant date	Dec 15, 2009
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 23, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
CPC primaryF28F2250/102
WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat exchanger including a stack of flat tubes for gas and a housing for the stack of flat tubes, with the housing enclosing only part of the periphery of the flat tube stack. The tubes have wide and narrow sides and are spaced to form channels therebetween for flow of a coolant. Cross-sectional widenings along the length of the tubes assist in maintaining the flat tubes in a spaced condition along the periphery not enclosed by the housing, and close the channels along the tube stack periphery not enclosed by the housing.

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