Method of manufacturing a heat exchanger
AssigneeCooler Master Co., Ltd.
InventorsChia Yu Lin, Shan-Yin Cheng
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Abstract
A method includes providing a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet, printing a plurality of channels on the first metal sheet, bonding the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet to each other to obtain a fin body, bending a first portion of the fin body to be transverse to a second portion of the fin body, separating the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet from each other to form the plurality of channels, introducing working fluid in the plurality of channels, and sealing the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet.
Claims5
A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger fin, the method comprising:
- providing a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet;
- printing patterns of a plurality of channels on the first metal sheet;
- bonding the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet to each other to obtain a fin body;
- bending a first portion of the fin body to be transverse to a second portion of the fin body after bonding the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet to each other, wherein the first portion of the fin body lies in a first plane and the second portion of the fin body lies in a second plane, and the first plane and the second plane are transverse to each other;
- forming the plurality of channels in the first portion and the second portion by inflating the fin body after bending the first portion of the fin body;
- introducing working fluid in the plurality of channels;
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- sealing the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.