Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Atuyumi Ishikawa

Hirofumi Iinuma

Masahiro Kobayashi

Takeshi Kanai

Yoshitaka Hara

Takashi Kawanabe

Hideaki Mukaida

Masanori Gotoh

Yoshinori Tohya

In a heat exchanger comprising a number of multilayered fins, and a refrigerant pipe arranged in the meandering form in the fins, and an air conditioner having the heat exchanger, each of the fins has a corrugated portion formed in an air-flow direction thereon, which has at least two wavelike portions for producing a turbulent flow of air having such strength that a temperature boundary layer of the air is broken, but resistance against to the air flow is not excessively high. Each wavelike portion may be designed to have a triangular section or a trapezoidal section, and a flat portion may be disposed between the wavelike portions.

Heat exchanger having corrugated fins and air conditioner having the same

A heat exchanger having an improved and substantially uniform heat exchange efficiency, provided with a plurality of plate fins each of which has tube inserting bores arranged in a staggered manner, and heat transfer tubes inserted through these bores, a plurality of each of the fins which are between the tubes being cut doubly to a small width and raised so as to form louver elements so that the louver elements cross a flow of the air stream. The root portions of the louver elements are positioned so as to surround the inserted portions of the tubes, the louver elements consisting of central louver elements formed on both sides of the center line of the row of the tubes, and a plurality of rows of divisional louver elements formed on both sides of the central louver elements with base portions left on the regions of the fin which are on a line crossing the mentioned center line, and the length of the divisional louver elements in the outside rows farthest away from the center line is set substantially equal to the distance between the louver elements in each row and the length of the divisional louver elements in the inside rows.

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Atuyumi Ishikawa