Patent ID: 6536517
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: F25B,F28D,F28F

Abstract:
An evaporator comprising a pair of upper and lower horizontal header tanks opposed to each other at a spacing, a group of heat exchange tubes arranged laterally of the evaporator in front and rear two rows and each connected to the upper header tank and the lower header tank respectively at upper and lower ends thereof in communication with the tanks, and a single vertical partition wall provided inside one of the header tanks and extending laterally of the evaporator so as to form sectioned header chambers for causing a refrigerant to flow through each pair of front and rear adjacent heat exchange tubes in directions opposite to each other, an inlet being provided for a liquid-vapor mixture refrigerant in a sectioned rear header chamber at an evaporator side from which cooled air flows out after passing between the heat exchange tubes to thereby make the sectioned rear header chamber serve as a refrigerant inflow header chamber, an outlet being provided for a vaporized refrigerant in a sectioned front header chamber at an evaporator side where the air to be cooled flows in between the heat exchange tubes to thereby make the sectioned front header chamber serve as a refrigerant outflow header chamber, the evaporator being 3 to 30% in channel opening ratio which is a value obtained by dividing the total cross sectional area of refrigerant channels in one heat exchange tube by the area of the horizontal section of the refrigerant inflow header chamber per heat exchange tube in the inflow header chamber and along openings of the heat exchange tube therein.