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US 12,578,146 B2Granted
Heat exchanger
AssigneeSanden Corporation
InventorsAkira Kaneko, Naotaka Iwasawa, Akihiro Fujiwara
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Abstract
A heat exchanger includes a pair of headers, and a plurality of heat exchanger tubes stacked between the pair of headers. Each of the headers includes header members each having a gutter-shaped cross section and including an open part and a bottom part. The header members are stacked in a staking direction of the heat exchanger tubes in such a way that the bottom part of one header member closes the open part of another header member. A fitted hole into which an end of a heat exchanger tube is fitted is provided in a side part of the header member.
Claims9
A heat exchanger comprising:
- a pair of headers;
- and
- a plurality of heat exchanger tubes stacked between the pair of headers, wherein:
- each of the headers includes header members each having a gutter-shaped and approximately U-shaped cross section and including an open part and a bottom part;
- the header members are stacked in a direction from the bottom part to the open part of each of the header members along a stacking direction of the heat exchanger tubes in such a way that the bottom part of one header member closes the open part of another header member;
- and
- a fitted hole into which an end of a heat exchanger tube is fitted is provided in a respective side part of each of the header members.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.