US 12,259,201 B2
Header plates structure of heat exchanger
Akira Komuro, Tokyo (JP); Taiji Sakai, Tokyo (JP); Atsushi Okubo, Tokyo (JP); and Hiro Kubota, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to T.RAD Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 18/016,472
Filed by T.RAD CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 9, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/026900
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 17, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/014719, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 20, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-123296 (JP), filed on Jul. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0280112 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. F28F 9/02 (2006.01)
CPC F28F 9/0202 (2013.01) 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A header plate structure of a heat exchanger, comprising:
an elongated header plate, in which a plurality of tube insertion holes constituted of a pair of short side portions facing each other and a pair of long side portions linking between both of the short side portions are formed in a bottom surface;
a tank main body caulked and fixed to the header plate via a sealing ring; and
a tube having a cross-section constituted of a pair of short side portions facing each other and a pair of long side portions linking between both of the short side portions and whose end portion is inserted into the header plate, the inserted portion being brazed and fixed to form a core, in which:
each short side portion of the plurality of tube insertion holes lies in a width direction of the header plate, and the tube insertion holes are arranged separately from each other in a longitudinal direction of the header plate;
in the tank main body, a pair of partitioning portions that divide a flow path of a heat transfer medium into the core in a longitudinal direction are included, a tube insertion hole arranged between the partitioning portions among the tube insertion holes is formed as a dummy tube insertion hole, and the core is divided at a position of the dummy tube insertion hole, wherein:
each tube insertion hole arranged adjacent to both sides of the dummy tube insertion hole has been formed as an end portion tube insertion hole;
the flat tube has been inserted into each of the tube insertion holes, a burring is formed to a hole edge of each of the tube insertion holes, and the flat tube has been joined on an inner surface near a top portion of the burring of each of the tube insertion holes;
the burring with height H1 is formed to the long side portion of the dummy tube insertion hole;
the burring with height H2 is formed to the long side portion of the end portion tube insertion hole adjacent to the dummy tube insertion hole; and
the height H2 of the burring of the end portion tube insertion hole is formed higher than the height H1 of the burring of the dummy tube insertion hole.