Modine Manufacturing Company

B Joseph Fietkiewicz

Mark G Voss

Alan Paul Meissner

Steven Meshenky

C James Rogers

Peter C Kottal

Robert Barfknecht

Jeffrey Alan Logic

Scott R Larrabee

LeRoy Goines

Henry Lukas

Charles G Gasper

A header construction intended for use in a heat exchanger () employed in a relatively high pressure application includes an array of generally parallel tube runs () with fins () extending between adjacent ones of the tube runs. At least one relatively flat header plate () has a plurality of tube slots () for receiving ends () of the tubes () and a tank () is mounted to and sealed to the header plate (). Peripheral flanges () are located about tube slots () in the headers and a header reinforcing plate () is bonded to the header plate () oppositely of the tank (). Stiffening beads in the form of flanges () are located on the header reinforcing plate () between openings () therein through which the tubes () pass and extend away from the header plate ().

Internally mounted radial flow, high pressure, intercooler for a rotary compressor machine

A low volume, high capacity latent heat storage device is achieved in a construction including a salt case () with an optional outer jacket () surrounding the salt case () in spaced relation thereto to define an insulating space () between the two. Inlet and outlet conduits (), (), (), (), extend from the exterior of the outer jacket () to the interior of the salt case () and at least one tube () is located within the salt case and has a plurality of straight, parallel runs () defining a matrix with an exterior and a phase change material is sealed within the tube (). The tube runs () inwardly of the matrix exterior are in a regular or equilateral polygonal pattern with each run () abutting a plurality of adjacent runs () and each run () at the exterior of the matrix additionally engaging the salt jacket (). The runs () have cross-sectional shapes such that flow spaces (, () exist between the runs () and between the salt jacket () as well between adjacent runs (). The flow spaces (), () are in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet conduits (), (), (), ().

Latent heat storage device

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Racine, WI, United States of America

B Joseph Fietkiewicz