Plastic intercooler
OwnerBobbye Kaye Baylis, Paul D. Daly +2inventors
InventorsBobbye Kaye Baylis, Paul D. Daly, Ian R. McLean, Roy Haworth
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Abstract
An intercooler comprises a plurality of plastic cooling tubes extending between a first end plate and a second end plate and a baffle arranged in the intercooler and extending at least partially between the first end plate and the second end plate. The baffle comprises a plurality of first openings for receiving a respective plastic cooling tube, the baffle further comprising a plurality of second openings arranged between the first openings. The second openings permit air to flow through the intercooler whilst creating turbulence in the air flow which increase the thermal transfer between the air and the tubes increasing the efficiency of the intercooler.
Claims15
An intercooler comprising:
- a plurality of plastic cooling tubes extending between a first end plate and a second end plate;
- and
- a baffle arranged in the intercooler and extending at least partially between the first end plate and the second end plate, the baffle comprising a plurality of first openings for receiving a respective plastic cooling tube and a plurality of second openings arranged between the first openings.
The intercooler according to claim 14, wherein the tubes furthermore have a twisted form along their length.
An intercooler comprising:
- a first tank including a first end plate;
- a second tank including a second end plate;
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- a plurality of plastic tubes extending between the first and second end plates and in communication on distal ends with each of the first tank and the second tank, the plastic tubes including a non-arcuate cross-sectional shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.