Denso Corporation

Hiroo Yamaguchi

Takayuki Hayashi

Kazuaki Kafuku

Yasutoshi Yamanaka

Hiroshi Tanaka

Kazutaka Suzuki

Takahide Ohara

Yuhei Kunikata

Takaki Okochi

Takaaki Sakane

Tatsuo Sugimoto

Akira Uchikawa

Takeshi Iguchi

Kenshiro Muramatsu

Yuuji Sako

Shinobu Suzuki

Tadaaki Yamaguchi, Legal Representative

Toshinari Sasaki

Hideko Yamaguchi, Legal Representative

Takai Okochi

A heat exchange core has a plurality of flat tubes laminated in a thickness direction, each flat tube defining an exhaust gas passage in which the exhaust gas flows. A plurality of coolant flow pass holes are formed in each of the flat tubes, wherein each of the coolant flow pass holes penetrates the flat tube in the thickness direction. The coolant flow pass holes of each flat tube are connected with the coolant flow pass holes of the other flat tubes, in order to respectively form a plurality of coolant flow passages through which liquid coolant flows, and the coolant flow pass holes of each coolant flow passages are communicated with each other in the laminated direction, so that the coolant flow passages are formed to be perpendicular to the exhaust gas passages.

Exhaust gas heat exchanger

A thermoelectric generating device has a thermoelectric element which utilizes an exhaust gas from an engine as a high temperature heat source and an engine coolant as a low temperature heat source in order to generate electricity. An introducing passage introduces a part of the exhaust gas passed through the thermoelectric element into an intake of the engine. An introducing valve opens and closes the introducing passage. A controller controls an opening degree of the introducing valve according to a load of the engine.

Thermoelectric generating device

In a cooling device, a condensation unit is constructed by stacking plural unit plates and two outer plates. The plural unit plates are superimposed in a plate-thickness direction between the outer plates, and three sheets of unit plates are also arranged in the planar direction. The radiating fins are provided such that the width of the base is substantially equal to the width of the unit plate, and are arranged in parallel on one of the outer plates in the same manner as the unit plate. According to this structure, the number of the unit plates arranged in parallel with the outer plates and the number of the radiating fins are increased or decreased, so that it is possible to easily change the size of a radiating unit in accordance with a necessary cooling capacity.

Cooling device

A cooling device has a radiator plate and a corrugated fin for cooling an electrical component. In a manufacturing process of the cooling device, a symmetrically constructed tool section presses the radiator plate and the fin against an anvil. The radiator plate has an attaching portion where an electrical component is attached. Knurled surface for preventing a slide is formed on the tool section only at a surrounding area to prevent a deformation of the attaching portion. The tool section and the radiator plate vibrate ultrasonically in a longitudinal direction of corrugations of the fin to prevent a crack on the fin.

Ultrasonically joining apparatus and ultrasonically joining method

A blower for flowing cooling air toward a corrugated fin is disposed to face the corrugated fin. The blower is covered with a blower case. Leg portions are integrally formed with and protrude from the blower case to face the corrugated fin at both sides in a corrugated direction of the corrugated fin. The blower case is fixed to a radiation plate by elastic deformation of the leg portions. The leg portions cover the both sides in the corrugated direction of the corrugated fin, so that the corrugated fin is protected from external force.

Cooling device with support members facing fin

A square substrate is divided into four substrate areas with reference lines respectively passing through a central point of the substrate in parallel with one of diagonals of the substrate. A fin disposed between the substrate and an axial fan has plural louvers each facing one of the substrate areas and extending in a direction parallel to a corresponding reference line of the one of the substrate areas. Accordingly, when air is blown out from the axial fan toward the substrate, an air flow direction can be changed by the louvers so that the air radially flows out from the central point of the substrate. As a result, a heat spot is not produced on the substrate.

Heat generating element cooling unit with louvers

A first cooling fin and a second cooing fin are separated to have a predetermine clearance, and a plurality of connecting portions for partly connecting the first and second cooling fins are formed. When the first and second cooling fins are unfolded, the length E of each the connecting portion in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the first and second cooling fins is equal to 5% or less of the length F between the adjacent connecting portions. Further, the first cooling fin is projected from the condenser tube toward the radiator tube side with a projection length Lc being in a range of 1.7 to 7.0 mm.

Heat exchanger having several exchanging portions

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Hiroo Yamaguchi