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US 4,022,272 AGranted
Transmission fluid heat radiator
AssigneeChester O. Houston, Jr.
InventorBernard Miller
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Abstract
The heat radiator takes the form of an extruded member defining parallel fins on its bottom surface and having a flat top surface arranged to be cemented directly to the bottom surface of a transmission fluid pan in an automobile. A special cement having high thermal conductivity is used and the extruded member may be made in modular form so that the entire area of the bottom of the pan can be covered by forming a set of modular units.
Claims4
A transmission fluid heat radiator comprising, in combination:
- a. a transmission fluid pan serving as a reservoir for transmission fluid and having a flat bottom;
- b. an extruded member of high heat conductivity constituting a base with bottom and top surfaces, the bottom surface being defined by a series of integral parallel heat radiating fins extending downwardly in a direction normal to the plane of the base, the top surface being flat and in juxtaposed relationship to said flat bottom of said pan;
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- c. a thermally conductive cement between said flat bottom of said pan and said top surface of said member securing the same to said pan
- whereby heat from transmission fluid in said pan is thereby conducted to said member by said thermally conductive cement and radiated by said fins.
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