Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Carrier Corporation

Thomas McGreevy

Thomas D Radcliff

Joseph J Sangiovanni

Henry E Beamer

Mikhail B Gorbounov

Douglas Charles Wintersteen

David E Samuelson

Bruce W Dittly

Yirong Jiang

Michael D Ford

Jifeng Zhang

Young K Park

Douglas C Wintersteen

Bruce Dittly

A heat exchanger assembly includes an outlet header extending along an outlet axis to define an outlet cavity and an inlet header defining an inlet cavity. A plurality of refrigerant tubes extends from the inlet header through the outlet header and into the outlet cavity. A collector conduit having a generally semi-circular conduit cross-section defining an arced surface and a chord surface interconnected with rounded ends is disposed in the outlet header and includes a conduit body portion and at least one conduit end portion interconnected by a conduit transition portion with the conduit body portion being offset from the conduit end portion. The conduit body portion is engaged to an interior surface of the outlet header to space the conduit body portion from the refrigerant tubes and the conduit end portion is coaxial with the outlet header axis to provide a central outlet for the refrigerant vapor.

Non-cylindrical refrigerant conduit and method of making same

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Akron, NY, United States of America

Thomas McGreevy