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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2018
Toshio Murata, Toyota, JP;
Yoshikazu Shimpo, Nisshin, JP;
Yoshihiro Koga, Gifu, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;
IBIDEN CO., LTD., Ogaki-shi, JP;
Abstract
An exhaust heat recovery unit that includes: a lead-in pipe that leads a heat medium from outside an exhaust pipe, via an inlet portion of an heat exchanger, into the heat exchanger; a lead-out pipe that leads the heat medium out from the heat exchanger, via an outlet portion of the heat exchanger, outside the exhaust pipe; and a pair of seal members that seal a space between the inlet portion and the lead-in pipe and a space between the outlet portion and the lead-out pipe, with at least one of the pair of seal members including an O-ring disposed in a position in which the at least one of the pair of seal members does not contact exhaust gas flowing through the exhaust pipe and in which the at least one of the pair of seal members contacts the heat medium.