A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a cooling-liquid passage, and a radiating member disposed in the cooling-liquid passage. The radiating member has a substrate and a plurality of pin-shaped fins. Longitudinally intermediate portions of the pin-shaped fins are brazed to the substrate. The substrate has a plurality of fin insertion holes, and the pin-shaped fins are inserted into the fin insertion holes of the substrate. A plurality of convex portions are integrally formed on the longitudinally intermediate portion of each pin-shaped fin. The substrate and the pin-shaped fins are provisionally fixed together by plastically deforming the convex portions such that they are crushed. In this state, the substrate and the pin-shaped fins are brazed together. The upper and lower end portions of the pin-shaped fins are brazed to the top wall and bottom wall, respectively, of the casing.

An aluminum alloy brazing sheet has a 3XXX, 1XXX or 6XXX core, an interliner and a 4XXX brazing layer without added Mg. The interliner has Bi and Mg, the magnesium migrating to the surface of the brazing sheet during brazing and reducing the aluminum oxide to facilitate brazing without flux in a controlled inert atmosphere with reduced oxygen.

Disclosed are a heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger may include a plurality of three-step tubes, each having a three-layered section and each having a liquid passage at a middle portion and module insertion spaces at opposite sides of the liquid passage, a plurality of thermoelectric modules inserted into the module insertion spaces, a plurality of cooling fins coupled to an outer surface of each of the three-step tubes, and an upper tank and a lower tank coupled to an upper side and a lower side of the three-step tubes to be fluidically communicated with the liquid passages of the three-step tubes. The three-step tubes and the cooling fins may be stacked laterally with respect to each other. The three-step tubes, the cooling fins, the upper tank, and the lower tank may be brazed by a same filler material comprising a metal.

Each heat exchange tube of a condenser is formed of a first brazing sheet having a core material and a first brazing material covering the core material. The tank body of each header tank is formed of a second brazing sheet having a core material and a third brazing material covering the core material and being lower in flowability than the first brazing material. In a region of a surface of each protrusion portion facing the corresponding heat exchange tube, the region having a predetermined width as measured from the projecting end, the core materials of the two brazing sheets are brazed together by means of the first brazing material. In the region other than the brazed portion, the core materials of the two brazing sheets are brazed together by means of a fillet formed of a mixture of the first and third brazing materials.

A heat exchanger for an ice-making machine comprises a generally cylindrical, tubular body defining a generally cylindrical, internal heat exchange surface, and at least one refrigerant circuit comprising at least one refrigerant passage disposed about the outer surface of the tubular body, at least a portion of the refrigerant circuit being brazed to the outer surface of the tubular body.

A method for producing a flat tube for a heat exchanger, in particular for a motor vehicle, having a first wall, a second wall opposite to the first wall, having a third wall connecting the first and second wall, having a fourth wall connecting the second and first wall, wherein the first and second wall are longer than the third and fourth wall, having an interior for a medium to flow through, wherein a turbulence insert is arranged in the interior, wherein the method comprises at least the following process steps: —providing a plate material —forming the plate material into an intermediate tube in such a way that the plate material is crowned in at least two sections and the sections at least partially form the first and second wall of the flat tube and the intermediate tube forms an opening in the area one of the two third or fourth walls —providing and inserting a turbulence insert into the interior —closing the opening by means of a welding method.

A metal matrix (2) for a heat exchanger (1), comprising a stack of components (4, 5, 6), in particular etched plates or corrugations (4), separator sheets (5) and bars (6), or a combination of the two types of stack, said components (4, 5, 6) being held relative to one another by layers of braze material (3), thereby ensuring the mechanical integrity of the matrix, the matrix including fluid circulation passages (10) within it, each fluid circulation passage (10) having an inner wall provided to fully contain said fluid radially, characterized in that each inner wall is fully covered with a corrosion-resistant coating (7).

Preferred application to heat exchangers based on carbon steel or stainless steel.

A method for producing a plate heat exchanger and the plate heat exchanger, particularly a soldered aluminium plate heat exchanger. In the method, a heat exchanger block is provided having a plurality of partition plates and edge strips arranged between the partition plates. A connection device is provided to be mounted on the heat exchanger block. A planar region for securing the connection device to the heat exchanger block is provided with at least one welded weld bead by means of a first weld. The connection device is welded onto the weld bead by means of a second weld. The welding method used for the first weld is a friction stir welding method.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising a casing (2) inside which is housed, and fastened by brazing, a heat exchange assembly (3) comprising a stack of heat exchange plates, each plate (4) having at least one edge (14) for brazing to the casing (2). The heat exchanger is characterized by the fact that it includes means, called unfastening means (20, 21, 22, 23), designed to prevent the casing from being brazed to at least a portion of the edge (14) of at least one end plate (4E) of the stack (3). By virtue of the invention, the heat exchanger is more flexible and absorbs thermal stresses better.

A rapid warm-up heat exchanger for heating a fluid using exhaust gas includes multiple plate pairs that are joined by braze joints to form a stack. A fluid inlet manifold and a fluid manifold extend through the stack, and each one of the plate pairs defines a tortuous flow path for the fluid that extends between the fluid inlet and fluid outlet manifolds. A housing surrounds the stack, and together the housing and the stack define an exhaust flow path in spaces provided between adjacent plate pairs. A valve element can be provided within the housing in order to selectively direct exhaust flow through the exhaust flow path.