A system for creating a braze joint within a component. The system includes an environment operable to reach a braze temperature sufficient to melt at least a portion of a braze material. The system also includes a component within the environment, the component including a base having a base surface, a recess depending from the base surface into the base to an inner edge, and a braze material within the recess and forming a cap above the base surface. The braze material fills the recess from the cap to the inner edge. The cap has an exposed braze surface. The system also includes an insulation layer that at least partially covers the exposed braze surface.

A heat exchanger includes: a main body; and a tube sheet that is bonded to the main body with a brazing material and is used to fix the main body to a support by a fixing member. The tube sheet includes: a bonding surface to which the brazing material is applied; a rising portion that rises from the bonding surface; and a through-hole through which the fixing member is passed. The through-hole is opened at the rising portion, penetrates the tube sheet, and has an inner peripheral surface to which the brazing material is not applied. The main body includes heat transfer tubes through which refrigerant flows, and the tube sheet is bonded to surface of the heat transfer tube.

A system for creating a braze joint within a component. The system includes an environment operable to reach a braze temperature sufficient to melt at least a portion of a braze material. The system also includes a component within the environment, the component including a base having a base surface, a recess depending from the base surface into the base to an inner edge, and a braze material within the recess and forming a cap above the base surface. The braze material fills the recess from the cap to the inner edge. The cap has an exposed braze surface. The system also includes an insulation layer that at least partially covers the exposed braze surface.

A system for creating a braze joint within a component. The system includes an environment operable to reach a braze temperature sufficient to melt at least a portion of a braze material. The system also includes a component within the environment, the component including a base having a base surface, a recess depending from the base surface into the base to an inner edge, and a braze material within the recess and forming a cap above the base surface. The braze material fills the recess from the cap to the inner edge. The cap has an exposed braze surface. The system also includes an insulation layer that at least partially covers the exposed braze surface.

A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat tubes and a coupling header. The flat tubes are disposed in multiple tiers along a predetermined tube tier direction and in multiple rows so as to be adjacent to each other in a tube row direction intersecting the tube tier direction and the longitudinal direction of the flat tubes. The coupling header is formed by joining a first member to a plurality of second members in the tube tier direction. The first member has a plurality of through holes through which pass the first end portions of the flat tubes. The second members when joined to the first member forming a plurality of coupling passages where the first end portions of the flat tubes adjacent to each other in the tube row direction communicate with each other.

A tube used in a heat exchanger, wherein a tube body includes a curved end portion, a pair of parallel portions, a pair of inclination portions, and a fixed portion in which a long end part extending from one of the pair of inclination portions is bent to hold therebetween a short end part extending from the other of the pair of inclination portions, and the tube is a pipe member having a flattened shape in cross-section. Poor brazing is reduced by making the inclination angle of at least part of the other inclination portion with respect to the flat plate portion larger than that of the one inclination portion.

A tube used in a heat exchanger, wherein a tube body includes a curved end portion, a pair of parallel portions, a pair of inclination portions, and a fixed portion in which a long end part extending from one of the pair of inclination portions is bent to hold therebetween a short end part extending from the other of the pair of inclination portions, and the tube is a pipe member having a flattened shape in cross-section. Poor brazing is reduced by making the inclination angle of at least part of the other inclination portion with respect to the flat plate portion larger than that of the one inclination portion.

A motor includes a stationary structure, and a rotor rotatable about a central axis with respect to the stationary structure. The stationary structure includes a stator including a coil, a bracket that supports the stator, and a circuit board disposed between the stator and the bracket. The bracket includes a board support that holds the circuit board between the bracket and the stator in an axial direction. The board support includes a wiring through hole that penetrates the board support in the axial direction and through which a wire extending from the circuit board passes, a lid that partially covers the wiring through hole, and a guide bridge that is located inside the wiring through hole when viewed in the axial direction and holds the wire between the lid and the guide bridge.

A motor includes a stationary structure, and a rotor rotatable about a central axis with respect to the stationary structure. The stationary structure includes a stator including a coil, a bracket that supports the stator, and a circuit board disposed between the stator and the bracket. The bracket includes a board support that holds the circuit board between the bracket and the stator in an axial direction. The board support includes a wiring through hole that penetrates the board support in the axial direction and through which a wire extending from the circuit board passes, a lid that partially covers the wiring through hole, and a guide bridge that is located inside the wiring through hole when viewed in the axial direction and holds the wire between the lid and the guide bridge.

A method for laser soldering includes selecting a copper-containing material as a filler material, supplying the filler material at a butt joint of two components, and melting the filler material in a main process zone by means of laser radiation in an advancement direction. The filler material in the main process zone is melted by means of laser radiation of a wavelength λH in the blue or green spectral range with 400 nm≤λH≤600 nm.