Showa Aluminum Corporation

Aisin Seiki Company, Ltd.

Showa Aluminum Kabushiki Kaisha

Masayoshi Okamoto

Ryoichi Hoshino

Yutaka Momose

Hironaka Sasaki

Katsuhisa Suzuki

Kazuaki Yamaguchi

Hiroki Tanaka

An evaporator is provided having a core portion with an inlet and an outlet; a fluid path for allowing a cooling fluid to pass through, the path being formed in a zigzag form so that the fluid passes through the core portion at least three times; and the fluid path having an increasingly large cross-sectional area from the inlet toward the outlet.

Horizontal stack type evaporator

A cooler made of aluminum for use in Stirling engines comprises a multiplicity of cooling tubes, a pair of headers joined to opposite ends of the cooling tubes, inner fins provided in the interior of the cooling tubes, a multiplicity of plate fins intersecting and attached to the group of cooling tubes, and a shell surrounding the cooling tubes and the plate fins. The shell is joined to the headers and has an inlet and an outlet for cooling water.

Cooler made of aluminum for stirling engines

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Oyama, Japan

Masayoshi Okamoto