US 11,971,228 B2
Intercooler assembly
Garrett Wayne Bright, Clovis, CA (US); Dustin E. Whipple, Fresno, CA (US); and Yehoram Hofman, Newport Coast, CA (US)
Assigned to WHIPPLE INDUSTRIES, INC., Fresno, CA (US)
Filed by Whipple Industries, Inc., Fresno, CA (US)
Filed on May 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/872,085.
Application 16/872,085 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/265,075, filed on Feb. 1, 2019, granted, now 10,648,400.
Application 16/265,075 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/155,753, filed on Oct. 9, 2018, granted, now 10,738,683.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/663,409, filed on Apr. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0271396 A1, Aug. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. F28F 9/00 (2006.01); F02B 29/04 (2006.01); F28D 7/16 (2006.01); F01P 3/18 (2006.01)
CPC F28F 9/001 (2013.01) [F02B 29/0406 (2013.01); F02B 29/0475 (2013.01); F28D 7/1692 (2013.01); F01P 2003/182 (2013.01); F28F 2009/004 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intercooler lid assembly for an intercooler supercharger system, comprising:
an intercooler lid mountable to a supercharger housing;
one or more intercooler cores mounted within and to the intercooler lid;
wherein the one or more intercooler cores configured to receive and cool supercharger air passing there through prior to receipt by an engine, the one or more intercooler cores are mounted to and within the intercooler lid to form a pre-assembled intercooler lid assembly mountable onto the supercharger housing to install the intercooler lid assembly, and the one or more intercooler cores configured to provide heat exchange fluid transfer there through to cool the supercharger air,
wherein the one or more intercooler cores include a single intercooler core configured to receive and cool supercharger air upon a first pass there through and receive and further cool the supercharger air upon a second pass through the single intercooler core prior to receipt by an engine, and the single intercooler core includes a single-pass heat exchanger path central section and spaced dual-pass heat exchanger path outer sections that are spaced from each other by the single-pass heat exchanger path central section.