Patent ID: 9733026
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: F28D,F28F,Y10T

Claim:
1. A heat exchanger comprising: a heat exchanger core comprising a plurality of corrugated heat exchanger plates; a fluid path through the heat exchanger core, the fluid path running between adjacent heat exchanger plates and having an inlet at one side of the corrugated heat exchanger plates and an outlet at an opposing side of the corrugated heat exchanger plates; and a corrugated fluid guiding member in series flow with the inlet and/or the outlet side of corrugations of one corrugated heat exchanger plate of the plurality of corrugated heat exchanger plates, the corrugated fluid guiding member comprising an angled portion of each of the corrugations of the corrugated heat exchanger plate, wherein the corrugated fluid guiding member is angled out of a plane of the corrugated heat exchanger plate so as to provide the corrugations of the corrugated heat exchanger plates with an out of plane geometry, which is operable to change the direction of fluid flow away from the plane of the corrugated heat exchanger plate, and peaks and troughs of corrugations of the corrugated fluid guiding member and peaks and troughs of the corrugations of the corrugated heat exchanger plate are in-line when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the corrugated heat exchanger plate.