Plate heat exchanger
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSanghoon Yoo, Sangyeol Lee
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Abstract
A plate heat exchanger is disclosed. The plate heat exchanger of the present disclosure includes: a first plate having a wavy first heat transfer surface through which a first fluid flows; a second plate having a wavy second heat transfer surface through which a second fluid flows, the first plate and the second plate being stacked on top of each other; and ribs provided at a portion of the first heat transfer surface, wherein the wavy first heat transfer surface has alternating ridges and grooves; and the ribs project from the grooves toward the ridges in the first heat transfer surface, to come into contact with the second plate.
Claims13
A plate heat exchanger, comprising:
- a first plate having a wavy first heat transfer surface through which a first fluid flows;
- a second plate having a wavy second heat transfer surface through which a second fluid flows, the first plate and the second plate being stacked on top of each other;
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- ribs provided at a portion of the first heat transfer surface, wherein:
- the wavy first heat transfer surface has alternating ridges and grooves;
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- the ribs project from the grooves toward the ridges in the first heat transfer surface, to come into contact with the second plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.