Patent ID: 9267737
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: F25B,F28D,F28F

Claim Text:
1. A heat exchanger, comprising: a first manifold; a second manifold; a distributor disposed within the first manifold to longitudinally divide the first manifold into an inlet section and a tube distribution section; and a plurality of multichannel tubes extending into the first manifold to form a plurality of distribution chambers within the tube distribution section, each multichannel tube of the plurality of multichannel tubes comprising a first end abutting the distributor in the first manifold, a second end disposed in the second manifold, a top wall, a bottom wall opposite to the top wall, a pair of side walls extending between the top and bottom walls and separated from each other by a plurality of generally parallel flow paths extending between the first and second ends and at least partially occluded by the distributor at the first end, and a flow path inlet section disposed within the inlet section of the first manifold and having a first region with only a portion of the top wall of the respective multichannel tube removed to expose the respective plurality of generally parallel flow paths to a respective chamber of the plurality of distribution chambers and a second region with only a portion of the bottom wall of the respective multichannel tube removed to expose the respective plurality of generally parallel flow paths to a different respective chamber of the plurality of distribution chambers.