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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2004
Applicants:
Manohar S. Sohal, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
James E. O'brien, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Inventors:
Manohar S. Sohal, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
James E. O'Brien, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Assignee:
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, Idaho Falls, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P015/26 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system for and method of manufacturing a finned tube for a heat exchanger is disclosed herein. A continuous fin strip is provided with at one pair of vortex generators. A tube is rotated and linearly displaced while the continuous fin strip with vortex generators is spirally wrapped around the tube.