A stacked header branches one flow path into a plurality of flow paths. The stacked header includes an upper end part positioned at an upper end of the stacked header in a gravity direction, a lower end part positioned at a lower end of the stacked header in the gravity direction, and a flow path forming part positioned between the upper end part and the lower end part and having a flow path formed in the flow path forming part. At least one of the upper end part or the lower end part is a non-horizontal face part having a non-horizontal face slanted with respect to a horizontal plane.

In the field of building and of cooling systems there is disclosed a wall-mounted radiant cooling device for rooms, including: at least two cooling tubes positioned on two different levels adapted for cooled water to flow through; a fixing unit of the cooling tubes to the outside of the walls of the rooms. Each cooling tube includes two shaped longitudinal fins, and the radiant cooling device further includes a channel, arranged parallel to and underneath the cooling tubes, adapted to collect the condensate that is generated through contact with the hot air present in the rooms provided with the cooling tubes. The longitudinal fins of the cooling tubes are adapted to cooperate with one another to convey the condensate into the channel.

In the field of building and of cooling systems there is disclosed a wall-mounted radiant cooling device for rooms, including: at least two cooling tubes positioned on two different levels adapted for cooled water to flow through; a fixing unit of the cooling tubes to the outside of the walls of the rooms. Each cooling tube includes two shaped longitudinal fins, and the radiant cooling device further includes a channel, arranged parallel to and underneath the cooling tubes, adapted to collect the condensate that is generated through contact with the hot air present in the rooms provided with the cooling tubes. The longitudinal fins of the cooling tubes are adapted to cooperate with one another to convey the condensate into the channel.

The present invention relates to a cooling module for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a cooling module for a vehicle including a condenser, a first radiator through which coolant for an engine flow, a second radiator through which coolant for electrical components flows, and an intercooler, and capable of evenly distributing air resistance of the front surface of the first radiator to secure an overall balance of an air volume distribution by disposing the condenser, the second radiator, and the first radiator in a flow direction of air or disposing the second radiator, the condenser, and the first radiator in this order, and disposing the intercooler on lower sides of the condenser and the second radiator, and capable of minimizing a gap of each heat exchange period by disposing the condenser C and the first radiator R to be in closely contact with the second radiator L.

A cooling apparatus (10) for a vehicle includes air-cooling first and second heat exchangers (12, 14) that are placed beside each other. A coolant flow-out portion (32) of the first heat exchanger (12) from which a first coolant which is a cooling target of the first heat exchanger (12) flows out and a coolant flow-out portion (36) of the second heat exchanger (14) from which a second coolant which is a cooling target of the second heat exchanger (14) flows out are placed at ends at opposite positions separated along a diagonal line on a parallel placement surface of the two heat exchangers (12, 14). A first cooling fan (20) is placed opposing the coolant flow-out portion (32) of the first heat exchanger (12), and a second cooling fan (22) is placed opposing the coolant flow-out portion (36) of the second heat exchanger (14). With this configuration, cooling performance of two air-cooling heat exchangers placed beside each other can be improved.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger device with at least one heat exchanger (1) which is flowed through by a fluid, at least one fan (11) and at least one adiabatic air cooler (2) for cooling air which is drawn in from the surroundings by the fan (11), wherein the air that has been drawn in is conducted firstly through the air cooler (2) and subsequently through the heat exchanger (1) and the adiabatic air cooler (2) has at least one humidification means (3), which is arranged in the air cooler (2) and which is composed of a moisture-absorbing material and a liquid feed (4), which feeds a liquid to the humidification means (3) in order to keep the humidification means (3) moist. In order that the most uniform possible wetting of the humidification means and higher heat exchange performance can be made possible without an impairment of the stability and the handleability of the humidification means and without oversaturation of the humidification means in the upper region with the liquid, provision is made whereby the humidification means (3) comprises at least two mats (3a, 3b) arranged one above the other and whereby the liquid feed (4) has a distributor device (4a, 4b) which is arranged above each mat (3a, 3b) and which serves for uniformly distributing the liquid onto the mats (3a, 3b), wherein each distributor device (4a, 4b) is connected to a feed line (5) via which the distributor devices (4a, 4b) can be charged with the liquid.

A combined heat exchanger module includes a first upper tank introducing cooling water into the combined heat exchanger module, a lower tank introducing the cooling water into or discharging the cooling water from the combined heat exchanger module, a second upper tank for discharging the cooling water from the combined heat exchanger module, first heat radiating channels connected with the first upper tank and the lower tank, second heat radiating channels connected with the lower tank and the second upper tank, and thermoelectric elements, in which each of the thermoelectric elements has a first surface in contact with the second heat radiating channels and a second surface exposed to air, thereby performing heating of air by use of both the cooling water and the thermoelectric elements or performing cooling of the cooling water by use of the thermoelectric elements.

A member may include a flexible material with thickness significantly smaller than that of other dimensions of the flexible material and at least one localized structure patterned within the flexible material, the at least one localized structure having a negative Poisson's ratio, such that when the member is mechanically coupled to a second structure using mechanical stress, the member conforms to features of the second structure.

A heat exchanger in which a refrigerant that flows in from a first inlet and a second inlet exchanges heat with air flow and flows out from an outlet includes: an upwind heat-exchanging unit; a downwind heat-exchanging unit that includes the second inlet and is disposed beside the upwind heat-exchanging unit on a downwind side of the upwind heat-exchanging unit; and a flow path formation portion that includes a refrigerant flow path between the upwind heat-exchanging unit and the downwind heat-exchanging unit.

A refrigerator includes a first refrigeration cycle unit that is configured to circulate a first refrigerant and that includes a first compressor, a first condenser, a first expansion device, and a first evaporator, a second refrigeration cycle unit that is configured to circulate a second refrigerant and that includes a second compressor, a second condenser, a second expansion device, and a second evaporator, a first valve unit installed at an outlet side of the first compressor, and a first hot gas path configured to extend from the first valve unit to the second evaporator and configured to supply the first refrigerant to the second evaporator.