Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Fumihiko Kusano

Junichi Ono

Nobuaki Miyake

Tomohiko Takahashi

Hiroshi Kinoshita

Takuya Ogura

Kazuyoshi Takayama

Atsushi Terano

A fin manufacturing apparatus includes: a progressive pressing device that forms, by forming in a metal plate having thermal conductivity a plurality of openings for tube-insertion and a plurality of slits while leaving uncut portions, strips that each have openings along a longitudinal direction of the strip and are partially coupled to each other in a width direction; an inter-row cutting device that separates, by cutting the portions via which the strips are coupled to each other, the strips such that each strip has a width of the fin; a cutoff device that cuts the separated strips to a predetermined length; and a guiding device between the inter-row cutting device and an inter-row slit device that guides and supplies, to the inter-row cutting device, the strips that are partially coupled to each other in the width direction, are arranged in the width direction, and are conveyed in the longitudinal direction.

Device for manufacturing fins and method for manufacturing fins

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Tokyo, Japan

Fumihiko Kusano