Visteon Global Technolgoies, Inc.

Thaddeus J Waskiewicz

Yuichi Furukawa

Yuji Yamamoto

Greg A Whitlow

Hirohiko Watanabe

John Joseph Meyer

Hiroyasu Shimanuki

Brett Lynn Manwill

Fumio Shimizu

Qun Liu

Corey Homer

Arif Mujib Khan

William Meinyk

A condenser having an integral receiver dryer includes a first manifold, a second manifold, and a plurality of fluid carrying tubes extending between and in fluid communication with the first manifold and second manifold. The condenser also includes a receiver dryer being internal to and integral with a housing of one of the first manifold and the second manifold and including a dryer material disposed in the housing to dry fluid therein.

Condenser with integral receiver dryer

A refrigerant tube for a heat exchanger, comprising: a generally flat tube,having generally flat upper and lower walls,; a plurality of reinforcing walls,connected between the upper and lower walls,, the reinforcing walls extending along and generally parallel with a longitudinal axis A&mdash;A of the tube and being spaced apart from one another by a predetermined distance; and a plurality of communication holes,distributed along the length of each reinforcing wall,, thereby defining a plurality of discrete wall portions,along each reinforcing wall,, each of the discrete wall portions,being disposed between adjacent communication holes,and having an upstream edge,and a downstream edge,thereof, the communication holes,and discrete wall portions,having lengths L,and L,, respectively, as measured along the longitudinal axis A&mdash;A, the communication holes,being spaced apart along each reinforcing wall,by a pitch P. Each communication hole,in each reinforcing wall is disposed between the upstream and downstream edges,of a laterally adjacent discrete wall portion,of each adjacent reinforcing wall, such that a wall overlap ratio Wr, defined as &lsqb;P&minus;2L,&rsqb;/P, is greater than 0, and preferably 0.4&lE;Wr&lE;0.6.

Refrigerant tube for a heat exchanger

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Thaddeus J Waskiewicz