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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1997
Mahmoud Ghodbane, Lockport, NY (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A composite heat exchanger has an inner, serpentine circuit fluidly isolated from a surrounding outer, parallel flow circuit, allowing two different heat exchange media to be in thermal contact without physical mixing. A series of longer, inner tubes are bent into a U shape, with the parallel legs of each arm of the U jacketed by surrounding, outer tubes. Header plates are inserted over the outer tubes, moved to a spaced apart relation, and then all but the first and last inner tube ends are joined by separate U shaped junctions to created the primary, serpentine circuit. Finally, manifold tanks are attached to the header plates, covering, but fluidly isolated from, the U shaped junctions of the serpentine circuit. Corrugated fins are installed between the parallel surfaces of adjacent outer tubes.