One aspect of the disclosure provides a termination for use with a furnace. The termination, in one embodiment, includes a face plate including an exhaust region and an air supply region, the face plate having a front surface and an opposing back surface. The termination, in this embodiment, further includes an exhaust termination portion extending from the back surface in the exhaust region, the exhaust termination portion capable of engaging a terminal end of a variety of different size exhaust conduits associated with a furnace. The termination, in this embodiment, further includes an opening extending through the face plate in the exhaust region, the opening aligned with the exhaust termination portion.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a 3D item (100) by means of fused deposition modelling (FDM), the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a shell component (5) comprising a thermoplastic 3D printable shell material having a shell melting temperature (Tms) and/or a shell glass transition temperature (Tgs); b) providing a core component (2) comprising a plurality of thermally conductive wires (3) and a flexible mantle (4) enclosing the plurality of thermally conductive wires (3); c) feeding the shell component (5) into a nozzle (6) of a 3D printer, the nozzle (6) having a nozzle temperature (Tn) being equal to or greater than the shell melting temperature (Tms) and/or the shell glass transition temperature (Tgs); d) a layer-wise depositing of the 3D printable shell material and the core component (2) to provide the 3D item (100) comprising a core-shell layer (100) of 3D printed material, wherein the 3D printed material comprises a core (102) comprising the core component, and shell (105) comprising 3D printed shell material, wherein the shell (105) at least partly encloses the core (102).

A heat exchanger includes a core portion, a pair of header tanks, and an elastically-deformable sealing member. The header tanks are arranged on both end sides of the core portion. The header tank includes a core plate and a resin tank body, which define a tank space. The sealing member is disposed at an end part of the tank body located adjacent to the core plate. The sealing member has a loop shape to enclose the tank space when viewed from the core portion and is formed integrally with the end part of the tank body. The end part of the tank body includes a protrusion portion at least one of inward and outward of the sealing member. The protrusion portion encloses the tank space when viewed from the core portion and projects from the end part of the tank body toward the core plate.

A water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly capable of cooling a power module of a vehicle driving inverter system using a battery or fuel cell. The water-cooled heat dissipation module assembly includes a housing unit provided in the form of a housing having an opening portion at least partially opened at one side thereof. The housing unit and at least a part of a rim region of the cooling unit are made of a plastic material, and the housing unit and the cooling unit are joined to each other by plastic welding using a laser.

Drawn polymer fibers have internal channels running, at least partially, through the length of the fibers. These fibers may be configured to for use as thermal isolators that can thermally isolate material at the central core of the fiber from the outside environment. In such instances, the channels may be used as insulating channels and/or a heating or cooling fluid can be pumped through the channels to maintain the temperature of the material at the inner core. As another application, the fibers may be used as recuperative, regenerative, parallel-flow, counter-flow, cross-flow or condenser/evaporator heat exchangers. In this case, the channels may be used to direct fluid flow. The fiber may allow for the exchange of heat between fluids in the channels.

A condensation trap comprising an inlet chamber, a vent chamber and an outlet chamber. The inlet chamber is configured to receive condensate fluid through an external opening therein. The vent chamber is in fluid communication with the inlet chamber via a first passageway that includes an internal opening of the inlet chamber. The internal opening is located substantially at an opposite end of the vent chamber as the external opening. The outlet chamber is in fluid communication with the vent chamber via a second passageway that includes an internal opening in a sidewall of the vent chamber and an interior opening in an end of the outlet chamber. The outlet chamber is configured to transmit the condensate fluid through an exterior opening located at an opposite end of the outlet chamber. A vent volume portion is greater than a total volume of an internal space of the inlet chamber.

The present invention relates to an assembly (10) with a first and a second component (1, 2) which are fixed relative to each other by at least one fixation element (3), characterized by a fixation element (3) extending into or through a space (9) between the first and the second component (1, 2), wherein the fixation element (3) is filled with a hardenable filling material (61), wherein the fixation element (3) is a hollow deformable and at least in a radial direction expandable element if internally pressurized, at least before the filling material (61) hardens. The present invention also relates to a method for producing an assembly with a first and a second component.

A microchannel heat exchanger (800) is manufactured by bonding a first sheet (802a) of material and a second sheet (802b) of material in a first connection pattern for integral formation of a core portion (801) and a manifold portion (808) for the first and second sheets (802a, 802b) of material. A third sheet (802c) of material is then superposed on to the second sheet (802b) of material and bonded in a second connection pattern to the second sheet of material for integral formation of the core portion (801) and the manifold portion (808) for the second and third sheets (802b, 802c) of material. The second and third sheets (802b, 802c) of material are bonded without bonding the second sheet (802b) of the material to the first sheet (802a) of material. The core portion (801) and the manifold portion (808) of the heat exchanger (800) are thus integrally created. The interstices between the first, second, and third sheets (802a, 802b, 802c) of material are then expanded to create fluid flow channels (806). This method can also be used to create a heat sink. The bonding method may be a form of laser welding where an opaque sheet absorbs the laser energy and the heat conducts through the top sheet to the sheet immediately below, but does not cause bonding with subsequent sheets below.

An alternative-fuel gas orifice, a gas furnace configured to employ the same and a method of designing a gas orifice. In one embodiment, the gas orifice includes: (1) a body having an aperture extending therethrough and including: (1a) a metering neck having a cross-sectional area such that a given flow rate of a gas is established when the gas is delivered to the gas orifice at a given alternative-fuel delivery pressure and (1b) a diffuser having a cross-sectional area larger than the cross-sectional area of the metering neck and a length such that the gas achieves a substantially laminar flow before exiting the diffuser.

Disclosed is a method for producing a plate-shaped heat exchanger for batteries or converters for generating electricity, to a plate-shaped heat exchanger for batteries or converters for generating electricity, and to an assembly of plate-shaped heat exchangers and converter or battery cells. A plate-shaped heat exchanger includes two frame parts, which peripherally surround one profiled heat-conducting element each, wherein the profiles of the profiled heat-conducting elements form channels in the connected state of the frame parts, through which channels a fluid can be conducted. In the connected state, the frame parts form at least two supply channels for feeding and leading away of fluid, from which supply channels openings extend to the channels of the profiled heat-conducting elements. The frame parts have at least one connection for the feeding and leading away of fluid for each supply channel, which connection can be connected to a connection of a frame part of a further heat exchanger.