A heat exchanger includes a flow passage pipe that has a flat shape having a predetermined thickness, a heat medium flowing in the flow passage pipe, the heat medium exchanging heat with a heat exchange target, and an inner fin located inside the flow passage pipe. The inner fin includes a wavy fin that partitions a main passage into multiple partitioned passages, and a guide wall connected to the wavy fin. An x-direction is a lengthwise direction of the flow passage pipe, a z-direction is a thickness direction of the flow passage pipe, and a y-direction is a direction perpendicular to both the x-direction and the z-direction. The wavy fin includes a first convex portion convex to a first side in the y-direction, and a second convex portion convex to a second side in the y-direction. The wavy fin has an opening portion through which two partitioned passages adjacent to each other communicate with each other. The guide wall protrudes from the wavy fin into the partitioned passage. The heat exchanger is capable of enhancing a heat transfer and improving a thermal performance of the heat exchanger.

A manifold for a heat exchanger includes a first tubular manifold part and a second tubular manifold part. The ends of the first and second manifold parts are connected through a baffle which is arranged to block tubular openings of the ends. The baffle substantially separates the ends of the first and second manifold parts.

The present invention relates to an outdoor heat exchanger, and more particularly, to an outdoor heat exchanger including a variable baffle whose opening and closing are controlled according to a switching of cooling/heating modes of a vehicle heat pump system to easily change a refrigerant pass and reduce the number of refrigerant passes at the time of heating than at the time of cooling.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger assembly with at least one multi-pass heat exchanger, comprising a first distributor (1) with a first connection part (1a) for connecting to a fluid line (9), a second distributor (2) with a second connection part (2a) for connecting to a fluid line (9), and at least one first deflection distributor (4), as well as a plurality of tube lines (5) through which a fluid, in particular water, can flow, wherein the first distributor (1) and the second distributor (2) are arranged at one end (A) of the heat exchanger assembly, the deflection distributor (4) is arranged at the opposite end (B) and the tube lines (5) extend from the one end (A) to the opposite end (B), and wherein the first connection part (1a) is arranged at a lowest point (T) or at least near to the lowest point (T) of the first distributor (1) and the second connection piece (2a) is arranged at a lowest point (T) or at least near to the lowest point (T) of the second distributor (2). In order to allow for the heat exchanger assembly to be quickly filled with the fluid and quickly emptied, a third connection part (3) is arranged on the first distributor (1) and/or on the second distributor (2) at a highest point (H) or at least near to the highest point (H) of the respective distributor (1 or 2), and at least one ventilation opening (10) is provided at a highest point (T) or at least near to the highest point (T) of the deflection distributor (4) for pressure equalisation with the environment.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger arrangement having at least one multipass heat exchanger, which comprises a first distributor (1), a second distributor (2) and at least one tubular diverter distributor (4) having a predefined tube cross-section (A.sub.U), and a tube arrangement (25) having a plurality of tubes (5) which are at least substantially parallel to one another and have a predefined tube cross-section (A.sub.R), through which a fluidparticularly, watercan flow and which are arranged in the tube arrangement (25) in columns with a predefined number of columns (n), wherein the first distributor (1) and the second distributor (2) are arranged at one end (A) of the heat exchanger arrangement and the diverter distributor (4) is arranged at the opposing end (B), and the tubes (5) extend from the one end (A) to the opposing end (B) and are connected to the diverter distributor (4) and the first or the second distributor (1, 2), and at least one vent opening (10) is arranged at a highest point (T), or at least in the vicinity of the highest point (T), of the diverter distributor (4) to equalize the pressure with the surroundings. In order to enable rapid filling of the heat exchanger arrangement with the fluid, a valve (11) is arranged in the at least one vent opening (10). When the valve (11) is fully opened, a flow cross-section (d) is clear for the passage of air, and the pipe cross-section (A.sub.U) of the diverter distributor (4) and the flow cross-section (d) of the valve (11) are the same as or greater than a minimum cross-section (D.sub.min), which is calculated from the product of the number of columns in the tube arrangement (25) and the pipe cross-section (A.sub.R) of the tubes (D.sub.min=n A.sub.R).

A thermal control device has a thermal control device base, a connection block attached to the thermal control device and a tubing for a heat exchange fluid attached to the connection block. The tubing has a tubing extension axis and a tubing side wall. The connection block includes a connection block receiving section, which receives a part of the tubing side wall. The connection block is configured to facilitate heat exchange between the tubing side wall and the thermal control device.

An apparatus, system, and method of separating and directing process fluid flow via the use of both low pressure drop pipes and high performance tubes within a refrigerant evaporator are disclosed. The evaporator includes a shell; the shell includes a process fluid inlet and a process fluid outlet. The evaporator also includes a plurality of tubes disposed within the shell and carrying a process fluid; the plurality of tubes includes a first plurality of tubes and a second plurality of tubes. The evaporator further includes a plurality of redirect pipes disposed within the shell and carrying the process fluid; the plurality of redirect pipes includes a first redirect pipe and a second redirect pipe. The evaporator functions by separating and directing process fluid flow into two portions via the use of both tubes and redirect pipes.

The present invention relates to a refrigeration cycle of a vehicle air conditioner and, more specifically, to a refrigeration cycle of a vehicle air conditioner including a water cooling type condenser and an air cooling type condenser and being configured so that a refrigerant, which is in an abnormal state after passing through a condensed region of the air cooling type condenser, passes through the water cooling type condenser and then passes through a supercooled region of the air cooling type condenser.

The present invention relates to a cooling module including: a first radiator for cooling an engine; a second radiator located in front of the first radiator in an air flow direction to cool electric parts; a first condenser located in front of the second radiator in the air flow direction to condense a refrigerant through heat exchange with external air; and a second condenser located inside the second radiator to condense the refrigerant through heat exchange with electric part cooling water, whereby the high temperature and high pressure refrigerant passes through the water-cooled second condenser and then passes through the air-cooled first condenser, thus enhancing the cooling efficiency of the refrigerant to improve the entire efficiency of the cooling system for the vehicle.

A heat exchanger system is disclosed by embodiments of the present invention. The heat exchanger system comprises an upper manifold, a middle manifold and a lower manifold arranged successively from top to bottom, wherein a first heat-exchanging tube is arranged between the upper manifold and the middle manifold, and a second heat-exchanging tube is arranged between the middle manifold and the lower manifold. The middle manifold has a first chamber and a second chamber separated from each other. During circulation of refrigerant, the refrigerant in the upper manifold flows through the first heat-exchanging tube down to the first chamber, and flows via a first communicating part into the chamber of the lower manifold, and subsequently the refrigerant flows through the second heat-exchanging tube up into the second chamber and then returns via a second communicating part to the upper manifold.