A heat exchange assembly includes an upper cover panel, a lower cover panel, a plurality of stacked plate assemblies, and a plurality of fins interposed between the plurality of plate assemblies. Each of the plurality of plate assemblies forms a flow passage for receiving a coolant. A continuous flow path extends through the heat exchange assembly. The flow path is in fluid communication with the flow passage of each of the plates and configured to convey air from each of the flow passages to an environment separate from the heat exchanger.

A total heat exchange element includes a stacked body that is formed by alternately stacking a first layer provided with a first passage through which a first air flow passes and a second layer provided with a second passage through which a second air flow passes. The stacked body includes a partition member between the first layer and the second layer, a spacing member provided in the first layer and the second layer and maintaining a spacing between the partition members facing each other, and a latent heat shielding member provided partly on the partition member and shielding transfer of latent heat between the first air flow and the second air flow through the partition member.

A plate for a heat exchanger has a longitudinal centerline, a reference plane parallel to the longitudinal centerline, and multiple corrugations provided in the plate that define flow channels through which fluid flows. The corrugations extend at an angle to the reference plane and at least some of the corrugations are intersected by the reference plane, wherein over at least a portion of a surface area of the plate the corrugations are arranged in sub-regions that have a longitudinal length and the corrugations of each sub region are at the same angle relative to the longitudinal centerline, and the corrugations of adjacent sub-regions are at different angles from each other, and wherein the corrugations in adjacent sub-regions meet at junctions and the junctions are not longitudinally aligned.

A stacked plate heat exchanger for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The stacked plate heat exchanger includes a plurality of elongated stacked plates extending in a longitudinal direction and stacked against one another perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction in a stacking direction. First hollow spaces and second hollow spaces are disposed between adjacent stacked plates, through which alternatingly a first medium and a second medium flows. At least one stacked plate has a rib structure disposed on a respective plate surface, structured and arranged to provide a plurality of flow passages within the respective hollow space. The rib structure has a guiding region and two distribution regions. The rib structure differs in the guiding region and in the two distribution regions by shape and size of the plurality of flow passages.

A screen for brazing a heat exchanger including a plurality of core plates and a base plate. The plurality of core plates may be formed from an aluminum alloy brazing sheet containing magnesium and may have a shape having a taper portion at a periphery. The base plate may be larger and thicker than a core plate of the plurality of core plates. The plurality of core plates and the base plate may be heated and brazed under an inert gas atmosphere. The screen may include a metal tube enclosing a stacked body of the plurality of core plates. The tube may follow the outer border of the plurality of core plates such that a specific minute gap is defined between an inner wall face of the tube and a tip edge of the taper portion.

Provided is a binary refrigeration apparatus including: a low-temperature side refrigeration circuit including a spiral heat exchanger including a main tube and a spiral tube wound around the main tube in a spiral form, the main tube being a tube where a low-temperature side refrigerant that flows into a low-temperature side compressor enters, the spiral tube being a tube where the low-temperature side refrigerant flown out from the low-temperature side compressor enters; and a high-temperature side refrigeration circuit where a high-temperature side refrigerant that exchanges heat with the low-temperature side refrigerant through a plate heat exchanger circulates.

A modular system for heat exchange between fluids includes two end plates. At least one end plate is configured with inlets and outlets for fluids. The modular system includes a number of heat exchanger elements and a number of guiding elements. Each heat exchanger element includes a folded sheet material including a plurality of slits extending in a longitudinal direction of the folded sheet material, which longitudinal extending slits form the fluids flow paths. The folded sheet material is cast in one piece in an outer casing. A central opening of the outer casing covers an outer circumference of the folded sheet material, exposing a front side and a back side of the folded sheet material where two through holes, forming the inlets and outlets for each fluid, are provided on opposite sides of the central opening of the outer casing. Each guiding element includes two inlets and two outlets for fluids, and a bead or edge, provided on one side, forming an enclosure around the inlet and outlet for a first fluid, and a bead or edge on an opposite side, forming an enclosure around the inlet and outlet for a second fluid. Heat exchanger elements and guiding elements are arranged successively following each other. The heat exchanger elements are arranged that two adjacent heat exchanger elements on sides facing each other carry the same fluid.

A shell-and-plate heat exchanger includes: a shell that forms an internal space and includes a refrigerant outlet at a top of the shell; and a plate stack disposed in the internal space and that includes heat transfer plates that are stacked and joined together. The shell-and-plate heat exchanger is configured to allow a refrigerant that has flowed into the internal space to evaporate. The refrigerant outlet emits a gas refrigerant out of the internal space through the refrigerant outlet. The plate stack forms: refrigerant channels that communicate with the internal space and through which a refrigerant flows; and heating medium channels that are blocked from the internal space and through which a heating medium flows. Each of the refrigerant channels is adjacent to an associated one of the heating medium channels with one of the heat transfer plates interposed therebetween.

A shell and plate heat exchanger includes a shell forming an internal space, and a plate stack housed in the internal space. The plate stack includes a plurality of heat transfer plates stacked and joined together. The shell and plate heat exchanger allows a refrigerant that has flowed into the internal space to be condensed. A refrigerant channel communicates with the internal space and allows the refrigerant to flow through. A heating medium channel is blocked from the internal space and allows a heating medium to flow through. The refrigerant channel and the heating medium channel are alternately arranged between adjacent heat transfer plates. A meandering portion is provided in at least a lower portion of the plate stack. The meandering portion is configured to meander the refrigerant condensed on a surface of each of the heat transfer plates. The meandering portion is provided by processing the heat transfer plates.

A shell and plate heat exchanger includes a shell forming an internal space, and a plate stack housed in the internal space. The plate stack includes a plurality of heat transfer plates stacked and joined together. The shell and plate heat exchanger allows a refrigerant that has flowed into the internal space to be condensed. A refrigerant channel communicates with the internal space and allows the refrigerant to flow through. A heating medium channel is blocked from the internal space and allows a heating medium to flow through. The refrigerant channel and the heating medium channel are alternately arranged between adjacent heat transfer plates. A meandering portion is provided in at least a lower portion of the plate stack. The meandering portion is configured to meander the refrigerant condensed on a surface of each of the heat transfer plates. The meandering portion is provided by processing the heat transfer plates.