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US 5,325,914 AGranted
Mounting bracket for a heat exchanger
AssigneeSanden Corporation
InventorHiroshi Tanaka
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AssigneeSanden Corporation
InventorHiroshi Tanaka
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A heat exchanger includes a pair of header pipes, a plurality of parallel heat transfer tubes fluidly interconnected between the header pipes, a plurality of fin units extending between adjacent heat transfer tubes. At least one bracket is provided for each of the header pipes. The bracket supports the header pipe and has a plurality of attachment holes for attaching the bracket to an external member via fasteners inserted through the holes. Each of the attachment holes is located at a position between adjacent heat transfer tubes and between the at least one of the header pipes and the end portion of one of the fin units. The total width of the heat exchanger including the bracket can be decreased or the area of the effective heat exchanger region equipped with the fin units can be increased by this positioning of the attachment holes.
In a heat exchanger including a pair of header pipes extending in parallel relation to each other, a plurality of parallel heat transfer tubes fluidly interconnected between said pair of header pipes, a plurality of fin units extending between adjacent heat transfer tubes of said plurality of parallel heat transfer tubes, and at least one bracket in which at least one of said pair of header pipes is supported and which has a plurality of attachment holes for attaching said at least one bracket to an external member via fasteners inserted through said attachment holes, the improvement comprising:
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