Patent ID: 6453990
Filing Date: 2002-09-24
Classification: F28D,F28F

Abstract:
A layered heat exchanger comprising:an end plate at one of opposite sides of the exchanger, a pipe mount plate covering over an outer surface of an upper end portion of the end plate, the pipe mount plate including a fluid introduction pipe socket and a fluid discharge pipe socket arranged side by side respectively at front and rear, the pipe mount plate being brazed to the end plate, the pipe mount plate comprising a cutout positioned between the fluid introduction pipe socket and the fluid discharge pipe socket, the cutout having a lower end left open downward at a lower end of the mount plate or an upper end left open upward at an upper end of the mount plate, and wherein the cutout has an upper end extending to a level above an upper end of the fluid introduction pipe socket and an upper end of the fluid discharge pipe socket and has its lower end left open downward at the lower end of the mount plate, or has its upper end left open upward at the upper end of the mount plate and has a lower end extending to a level below a lower end of the fluid introduction pipe socket and a lower end of the fluid discharge pipe socket.