Mahle International Gmbh

Mahle Japan Ltd.

Ryoichi Kurihara

Satoshi Suzuki

Kenji Yamashita

Kenji Wada

Takuma Shibata

Masahiro Ariyama

A heat exchanger may include a stacked plurality of plates and a fin plate brazed to each other. Each set of adjacent said plates of the plurality of the plates may define a flow path between plates. Each plurality of the plates may include a flow-through portion penetrating through the plates and through which a fluid is flowable. At least one set of the flow-through portions may be provided at one of the flow paths such that the fluid is flowable from one side of a flow-through portion to an other side of a flow-through portion. The flow-through portion may be disposed outside the fin plate. Each plurality of the plates may further include a through hole disposed outside the fin plate. Each plurality of the plates may further include a first boss portion formed in a substantially elliptical shape surrounding the flow-through portion and the through hole.

Heat exchanger

A heat exchanger is disclosed. The heat exchanger includes a heat exchanger core including a stacked plurality of plates, a top plate, and a bottom plate. The plurality of plates includes two end portion plates, and a plurality of intermediate plates stacked between the end portion plates. Each of the plurality of intermediate plates has a flow-through portion penetrating through the intermediate plates through which a fluid flows. Each of the through holes of each of the plurality of intermediate plates demarcates a flowthrough path which penetrates through the intermediate plate in the stacking direction and is isolated from the flow path between plates. A boss portion having a substantially elliptical shape edge portion is formed at each plate.

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryoichi Kurihara