Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Tadashi Nakabou

Masahiro Shimoya

Yoshiyuki Yamauchi

Mitsugu Nakamura

A fin for a heat exchanger is joined to an outer surface of a tube, and facilitates a heat exchange between the tube and an air flowing around the tube. A sectional surface of the fin perpendicular to a flowing direction of an air has a corrugated shape that includes multiple flat portions substantially parallel to a flowing direction of the air, and a ridge portion connecting the adjacent flat portions. Multiple louvers cut in and raised from each of the flat portions at a predetermined cut-and-raised angle are disposed on the flat portion along a flowing direction of the air. A thickness of each flat portion is defined as t, a louver pitch of the louvers is defined as PL, and the thickness of each flat portion and the louver pitch satisfy a relationship of 0.035&#x2266;t/PL&#x2266;0.29.

Fin for heat exchanger

A plate-type heat exchanger comprises a stack of flat tubes each composed of a pair of confronting core plates jointed to each other and defining a fluid passage. A cross sectional area of the fluid passage is increased along the flowing direction of tbe refrigerant. A plurality of ribs are disposed on the fluid passage. A flowing resistance of the ribs which are disposed near an outlet tank is lower than that of the ribs which are disposed near an inlet tank.

Plate-type refrigerant evaporator

A plate-type heat exchanger comprises a stack of flat tubes each composed of a pair of confronting core plates jointed to each other and defining a fluid passage. A cross sectional area of the fluid passage is increased along the flowing direction of the refrigerant. A plurality of ribs are disposed on the fluid passage. A flowing resistance of the ribs which are disposed near an outlet tank is lower than that of the ribs which are disposed near an inlet tank.

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Tadashi Nakabou