Hitachi, Ltd.

Shigeru Kojima

Takao Senshu

Masakatsu Hayashi

Tatsuo Natori

Takeo Tanaka

Tatsushi Aizawa

A method of producing a heat exchanger in which a fin block of porous metal and fin plates connected to the fin block are unitarily secured to a serpentine heat-transmitting pipe. A plurality of fin molds produced with the use of plastic patterns formed therein with continuous, three-dimensional cavities are assembled with the heat-transmitting pipe shaped beforehand into a serpentine form in such a manner that the fin molds enclose the heat-transmitting pipe with suitable spacing intervals defined between the fin molds themselves and between the fin molds and the heat-transmitting pipe. Molten metal of high thermal conductivity is cast into continuous cavities in the fin molds and into the spacing intervals, and the material of the fin molds is removed after the molten metal has solidified.

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Kasukabe, Japan

Shigeru Kojima