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US 11,543,158 B2Granted
Method of manufacturing a solar heat exchanger
AssigneeAspire Polymers Pty Ltd
InventorPaul Carroll
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Abstract
A solar heat exchanger for heating water which includes an array of tubes, an injection molded manifold there being connections between each tube in the array and the manifold which are over molded to seal the tubes to the manifold.
Claims6
A method of manufacturing a solar heat exchanger comprising an array of tubes and an injection moulded plastics manifold, said manifold having a tubular manifold body with an array of spigots along its length, said method comprising:
- pushing onto said spigots on said manifold body corresponding ends of said tubes, each said spigot incorporating an external annular recess on the spigot, and
- overmoulding the spigots, and their corresponding ends of said tubes, with a flowable plastics compound to thereby seal the tubes to the manifold,
- wherein said compound flows into said annular recesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.