Disclosed herein is a heat exchanger apparatus comprising a heat exchanger tube having an inlet valve and an outlet valve. When the valves are open, the refrigerant can flow through the heat exchanger tube, and when the valves are closed, refrigerant can be stored in the heat exchanger tube, thereby reducing the effective heat exchange surface area of the heat exchanger apparatus.

The invention relates to an assembly including a heat exchanger and a mounting on which the heat exchanger is mounted. The heat exchanger including a first channel for circulating a coolant supplied by a first collector provided with a first pipe in which the coolant can circulate. The heat exchanger also including a second channel for circulating the coolant supplied by a second collector provided with a second pipe in which the coolant can circulate. The first and second channels define a heat-exchange surface that extends in a substantially vertical plane. The first pipe is located in a lower half of the first collector along a first axis parallel to the plane of the heat-exchange surface, with the second pipe located above the first pipe along the first axis. The invention further relates to an air-conditioning loop including the above-described assembly.

The present invention relates to a heat exchanger (1) comprising at least, one fluid F passage tube (7) and at least one manifold (5) provided with a cover (11) closing, after assembly, a longitudinal opening (10) of a collector plate (9) cooperating with said cover (11) to form the manifold, said tube (7) being designed to form a connecting element for the exchanger and comprising an end partially crimped between said cover (11) and said collector plate (9) at a passage orifice (17) for said fluid F in the manifold.

A heat exchanger includes a plurality of principal heat exchange sections and auxiliary heat exchange sections. Each of the auxiliary heat exchange sections is in series connection to a corresponding one of the principal heat exchange sections. Of tube number ratios of the number of the flat tubes constituting each of the heat exchange sections to the number of the flat tubes constituting a corresponding one of the auxiliary heat exchange sections, the first principal heat exchange sections which is the lowermost one has the smallest tube number ratio. Consequently, discharge of liquid refrigerant from a lower portion of the first principal heat exchange section is accelerated during defrosting, thereby shortening the time required for defrosting.

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 refrigerant evaporator includes: a first heat exchange part in which refrigerant flows; a second heat exchange part in which the refrigerant flows; a first tank arranged below the first heat exchange part to distribute the refrigerant to the first heat exchange part; a second tank arranged below the second heat exchange part to collect the refrigerant flowing through the second heat exchange part; and a third tank joined to the first tank and the second tank to introduce the refrigerant collected by the second tank to the first tank. A clearance is defined among the first tank, the second tank, and the third tank. At least one of a joint portion between the first tank and the third tank and a joint portion between the second tank and the third tank defines a drainage passage to discharge water trapped in the clearance.

A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange body having a plurality of flat tubes arranged and spaced from each other in a horizontal direction; an upper header provided at an upper end of the heat exchange body; a lower header provided at a lower end of the heat exchange body; and a partition plate provided in at least one of the upper and lower headers to partition the heat exchange body into a plurality of regions in a horizontal direction. The partition plate is provided such that in each of the regions, refrigerant flows in the opposite direction to the flow direction of the refrigerant in an adjacent one of the regions, and is provided such that regarding the regions, the more downward the region in the flow of the refrigerant when the heat exchanger operates as a condenser, the smaller a flow passage cross-sectional area of the region.

The present invention relates to a heat exchanger comprising: a header tank having a plurality of flow paths in which a heat exchange medium flows; multiple rows of tubes connected to the header tank; and heat radiation fins interposed between the tubes, wherein the tubes include a heat exchange part coupled to the heat radiation fins and a coupling part that is formed on a longitudinal end of the heat exchange part and coupled to the header tank, the width of the coupling part is formed to be less than the width of the heat exchange part so that the overall package size of the heat exchanger may be reduced, thus enabling a compact configuration, and the space between neighboring rows of the tubes may be reduced, thus making it possible to reduce the material of the heat radiation fins.

The present disclosure discloses a heat exchanger and an air conditioning system having the heat exchanger. The heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger core, a second heat exchanger core and a connection part. Heat exchange tubes of the first heat exchanger core and the second heat exchanger core include first circuit heat exchange tubes. A length of the heat exchange tube of the first heat exchanger core is greater than a length of the heat exchange tube of the second heat exchanger core. The connection part includes a first connection part through which the first circuit heat exchange tubes of the first heat exchanger core are connected with the first circuit heat exchange tubes of the second heat exchanger core. The heat exchange tubes of at least one of the first heat exchanger core and the second heat exchanger core further include second circuit heat exchange tubes. First circuit heat exchange tube groups each constituted by at least one of the first circuit heat exchange tubes and second circuit heat exchange tube groups each constituted by at least one of the second circuit heat exchange tubes are arranged alternately. Thereby, the heat exchange performance can be improved at both partial load and full load.

An evaporator is used in an inclined state in which a first header tank is located on the upper side in relation to a second header tank. The leeward and windward header sections of the first header tank have compartments with which the furthest tube groups of leeward and windward tube rows communicate. The compartments are divided into upper and lower spaces by split flow control sections, and the upper and lower spaces communicate through refrigerant passage holes formed in the split flow control sections. The total cross sectional area of the refrigerant passage holes of the split flow control section of the compartment located on the lower side in the inclined state is smaller than the total cross sectional area of the refrigerant passage holes of the split flow control section of the compartment located on the upper side in the inclined state.