Noritz Corporation

Nobuhiro Takeda

Kazuhiro Kimura

Akira Tsutsumi

Hiroshi Asakura

Norihide Wada

Hironao Matsunaga

Masaki Kondo

Takeshi Oohigashi

Shuji Kameyama

Takeshi Ohigashi

Wataru Ooshita

Yukiko Noguchi

Toshihiro Hori

Keiichi Amada

Masakuni Morikawa

Kosuke Ichiyama

Ichiro Ootomo

Takayasu Fujita

A heat exchanger includes a plurality of serpentine or U-shaped first heat transfer tubes disposed in a case and formed by connecting a plurality of straight tube body portions, which are arranged at intervals in an up-down height direction so as to extend in a horizontal direction, in series via a first connecting tube body portion, upper side and lower side header portions connected to respective end portions of the plurality of first heat transfer tubes, and a second heat transfer tube disposed in the case so that upper side and lower side end portions thereof are connected respectively to the upper side and lower side header portions and configured such that an intermediate region, which excludes at least the respective end portions and a region of an uppermost portion that is adjacent to the upper side end portion, is constituted by tube body portions that are tilted over the entire length thereof so as to gradually decrease in height from one end side toward another end side of the intermediate region. As a result, a malfunction in which a hot water supply operation becomes difficult due to freezing of the heat transfer tubes can be prevented appropriately.

Heat exchanger and water heater including same

A fin-and-tube type heat exchanger includes: a plurality of plate fins arranged in a case side by side in a fore-and-aft direction of the case; and a heat transfer tube including a plurality of straight-type tubular bodies each passing through these plurality of plate fins. First and second plate fins arranged side by side in the right-and-left width direction of the case are provided as a plurality of plate fins. The heat transfer tube has a connection tubular body connecting the straight-type tubular bodies passing through the first and second plate fins. The heat transfer tube passes through areas in which the first and second plate fins are arranged.

Fin-and-tube type heat exchanger and water heater including the same

A heating apparatusincludes a shell, a primary heat exchanger (sensible heat exchanger), a burner (combustion means), and a fan. A secondary heat exchanger (latent heat exchanger)has a plurality of heat receiving tubesarranged in parallel between a pair of headersand, the heat receiving tubesbeing fixed to tube plates. The heat receiving tubesare bare tubes without fins and are arranged across flow of combustion gas. The number of the tubesarranged vertically is less than the number of the tubesarranged horizontally.

Heating apparatus

A secondary heat exchanger B for recovering latent heat from combustion gas includes water tubeseach of which is so inclined that a first endis positioned lower than a second end. Therefore, in draining water from each of the water tubes, water can be caused to flow smoothly into a water-inflow and hot-water-outflow headerA connected to the first ends. The secondary heat exchanger B includes a casingwhich includes an upper walland a bottom wallwhich are so inclined that the inner surfaces thereof extend generally in parallel with the water tubes, and the upper and the lower gapsandhave constant widths sand s. Therefore, the amount of heat recovery from the combustion gas passing through the gapsandcan be increased.

Water heater

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Himeji, Japan

Nobuhiro Takeda