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Heat exchanger with collecting tube, collecting tube, and method for producing the same

US8474517B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Modine Manufacturing Company · US

Inventors

Daniel Borst · Ratingen, DE
Christoph Schiebel · Bingen, DE
Frank Vetter · Bad Liebenzell, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 29, 2009
Grant date	Jul 2, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 18, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49391
WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat exchanger, such as a condenser or gas cooler, having a collecting tube which has a wall and which can be produced by deformation of a single metal strip, which collecting tube has, in its base, at least one row of openings in which heat exchanger tubes, each of which has two narrow and two wide sides, are fastened at their ends. The collecting tube can have at least two chambers, which adjoin one another approximately at a central longitudinal axis, and also a reinforcement, which is formed by the longitudinal edge strips of the metal strip.

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