Patent ID: 9273907
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: F28D,F28F

Claim Text:
1. A plate type heat exchanger, comprising a heat exchanger assembly, end panels and end panel connection members connecting the end panels, wherein the heat exchanger assembly comprises a stack of heat exchanger plates and a pair of outer heat exchanger plates located on opposing sides of the heat exchanger assembly, wherein the end panels are located near the opposing sides of the heat exchanger assembly, wherein at least one outer heat exchanger plate is mechanically connected to an adjacent end panel, and has an outer main surface portion that is facing the adjacent end panel and is substantially entirely thermally connected to an end panel contacting region of the adjacent end panel, and wherein the in-plane thermal expansion properties of the outer main surface portion are substantially identical to in-plane thermal expansion properties of the end panel contacting region, and the plate type heat exchanger is provided with at least one flexible corner plate with a first corner plate connection region that is directly mechanically connected to the end panel near a corner beam connection region, wherein the flexible corner plate has a second corner plate connection region that is directly mechanically connected to an outer main surface corner region of the outer heat exchanger plate, and wherein the projection of the first flexible corner plate connection region and the projection of the second flexible corner plate connection region onto a plane parallel to the flexible corner plate are non-coinciding.