Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshiaki Ando

Hiroyoshi Tanaka

Tatsuo Fujita

Motohiro Suzuki

Yukio Watanabe

Tetsuo Terashima

Shoichi Yokoyama

Yoshiyuki Tsuda

Osamu Aoyagi

Shigeo Aoyama

Narito Yamaguchi

Masaaki Adachi

Humitoshi Nishiwaki

A low-cost, high-mass-productivity catalytic combustion apparatus having a construction that permits easy maintenance is realized. There is provided a catalytic combustion apparatus in which, by means of a combustion chamber having a fuel supply portion and a combustion air supply portion on the upstream side thereof and a combustion gas exhaust port on the downstream side thereof and a catalytic combustion portion with an upstream surface and a downstream surface provided in the combustion chamber, the upstream surface and the downstream surface being substantially parallel to each other, a fuel-air mixture supplied to the interior of the combustion chamber is caused to react to liberate heat. The catalytic combustion apparatus includes a heat exchange portion, which constitutes part of walls of the combustion chamber, and a fin-type radiant heat-receiving portion, which protrudes from the heat exchange portion into the combustion chamber and being provided in the vicinity of the catalytic combustion portion. In this catalytic combustion apparatus, the surface of the fin-type radiant heat-receiving portion and the surface of the heat exchange portion face in the same direction.

Catalyst combustion device and method of producing frame body portion thereof

In a heat exchanger of the present invention for exchanging heat between fluid flowing in a flow passage in a heat exchanger tube and fluid flowing outside of said heat exchanger tube, a solid bar-like insertion member or a hollow bar-like insertion member whose opposite ends are closed is provided in said flow passage in which a fluid having phase change flows in gas-liquid two phase state or liquid phase state, a cross section of said insertion member is formed into a substantially circle shape, a polygonal shape or a starlike shape, and a cross-sectional area of a flow passage in which said fluid flows is reduced as a mass flow rate quality of said fluid is reduced. With this construction, it is possible to restrain the pressure loss at the time of evaporation, and the evaporation ability can be enhanced or can be restrained from being deteriorated.

Heat exchanger

Disclosed is a heat exchanger having a plurality of flat fins disposed in parallel at predetermined intervals and adapted such that the air flows therebetween and a plurality of heat-transfer tubes disposed to intersect at right angles with the plurality of fins and adapted such that a fluid flows therethrough. The heat-transfer tubes are arranged such that a line connecting the adjacent heat-transfer tubes in the longitudinal direction of the fin is perpendicular to the direction of the air flow. The projection area in the direction of the air flow of any of the heat-transfer tubes located on the upstream side with respect to the air flow partially overlaps the position of at least one of the heat-transfer tubes disposed on the downstream side thereof. The pitch of adjacent heat-transfer tubes is smaller in the direction perpendicular to the air flow than in the direction of the air flow. Such an arrangement excells in both the frosting characteristics and performance.

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Otsu, Japan

Toshiaki Ando