The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1) comprising at least one tube (2) for heat transfer fluid to flow through, connected to at least one heat dissipation fin (4). The fin (4) is made of expanded metal sheet.

A pin fin forming method is a method of forming a plurality of pin fins on a surface of a metal plate by subjecting the metal plate to extrusion using a die having a plurality of through-holes and a roll. The pin fin forming method includes placing the metal plate between the die and the roll, and pressing the metal plate from a first end of the metal plate to a second end of the metal plate, by moving the roll relative to the die. The metal plate is pressed from the first end of the metal plate to the second end of the metal plate, in a state where a side surface of the second end of the metal plate and an upper surface of the second end of the metal plate are fixed.

A method of forming fins in a heat exchanger includes using a stacked slit saw with multiple saw blades to simultaneously cut multiple fins into a metal body of the heat exchanger, with each fin having a body extending from an upper surface of the metal body and terminating in a tip.

What is disclosed is a fin forming machine for making fins for heat exchanger cores, or the like, in which the fin forming machine has three major drives and separate controls; the top and bottom drives control the vertical opening and closing of fin forming dies under programmable control in accordance with CNC technology; and a center drive under the control of a separate programmable system which controls horizontal movement of the feedstock into intersection with the top and bottom forming dies to incrementally halt the movement of the feedstock as it intersects with the forming dies upon convergence during fin formation and then advances it a controllable distance for the next fin forming action. These three drive systems being seamlessly variable and controllable during operation, maintain a high degree of calibration of the formation of each fin to maintain fin height and spacing within very close tolerances, which calibrations are achieved without shutting down machine operation. Positive control of all drive systems minimizes overtravel of the forming dies.

The invention relates to a method for producing a corrugated fin element for a heating register or for another heating device, through which corrugated fin element a flow can pass, to a corrugated fin element produced according to such a method, and to a heating register designed with such corrugated fin elements, wherein the corrugated fin elements are produced by unfolding.

There is a need for better cooling solutions for the ever-increasing thermal density of computing systems. This is solved by providing a radiator (100) for a liquid cooling system for cooling a computing unit, the radiator comprising:a first manifold (101) and a second manifold (102) having among them two liquid openings (103, 104) for connecting the radiator in a liquid loop, channels (110) extending between the first manifold (101) and the second manifold (102) and providing parallel liquid paths between the manifolds (101, 102), fin layers (130) sandwiched between sets of neighbouring channels (110) and extending between the first manifold (101) and the second manifold (102), fastening means (120) for attaching a fan (10) to the radiator (100) in a predetermined position, determining a ring-shaped high-pressure zone (142) corresponding to an outer area of a fan radius (122) of an attached fan, whereat least one fin layer has a low-density section placed away from the high-pressure zone, and a high-density section being located in the high-pressure zone and having a higher fin density than the low-density section, the density of the group of fin layers thereby varies both along the channels but also transverse of each channel, resulting in two-dimensional density variations across the radiator surface, sections of fins to be positioned in front of the ring-shaped high-pressure zone has a higher density than the section of fins away from the ring-shaped high-pressure zone.

A fin manufacturing apparatus includes an inter-row slit processing device having upper and lower blades with blade edges extending in a feed direction of a thin metal plate that serves as a material of a fin. The upper and lower blades are engaged with each other to form a perforated slit between rows on the fin. Each blade has a recess where the blade edge is partially recessed toward a ridge. Recess depth dimensions are smaller than a lapping amount of the blades when the blades are engaged with each other. At least one of the blades is slidable in a longitudinal direction of the blade edge to allow the recesses to be moved from overlapping positions to adjacent positions as viewed along a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the blade edges when the blades are engaged with each other over the lapping amount.

An air fin for a heat exchanger has air channels defined by corrugations, the corrugations having generally planar flanks joined by alternating crests and troughs. Perforations extend through portions of at least some of the flanks and are aligned within two spaced apart planes. A rectangular aperture extends through at least two consecutive ones of the corrugations, and is bounded by the two planes. A method of making the air fin includes forming perforations into a continuous strip of metal sheet at regular intervals, corrugating the strip to form crests and troughs between the perforations, and punching out a portion of the strip at regular intervals. The punching out includes shearing webs between the perforations, and results in the formation of the rectangular aperture.

The present invention aims to provide a manufacturing device for heat exchanger fins that is capable of adjusting for differences between a number of punches and a number of through-holes or cutaway portions in an actual product without causing a metal strip to sag or having punches punch the same positions twice. As a solution, a mold (46) is provided with a plurality of punches (75) and a plurality of dies (76) that form a plurality of through-holes or cutaway portions along a conveying direction of a metal strip (49) and also includes a feeding apparatus (50) that feeds the formed plurality of through-holes or cutaway portions in the feeding direction in a single feeding operation, and a cutoff device (60) that cuts the metal strip (49) into predetermined lengths has an equal number of cutoff punches (68) to a number of the punches and dies disposed along the conveying direction of the metal strip (49), includes a plurality of cutoff punch driving units (72) that respectively and individually operate the cutoff punches (68), and also includes a control unit (80) that controls each of the cutoff punch driving units (72).

A corrugated fin heat exchanger includes: a first flat tube; a second flat tube aligned in parallel with the first flat tube; and a corrugated fin disposed between the first flat tube and the second flat tube, and the corrugated fin includes a first slant portion bridging between the first flat tube and the second flat tube and inclined relative to a perpendicular line toward the first flat tube at a first angle of inclination, a second slant portion bridging between the first flat tube and the second flat tube and inclined relative to the perpendicular line at a second angle of inclination, and a third slant portion bridging between the first flat tube and the second flat tube, the third slant portion positioned between the first slant portion and the second slant portion, and inclined relative to the perpendicular line at an angle of inclination larger than both of the first angle of inclination and the second angle of inclination.