Patent ID: 6065533
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: F28F

Abstract:
A core assembly for use in a heat exchanger comprising:a plurality of elongated substantially identical strip members, each of said strip members including a plurality of longitudinally spaced laterally extending troughs with heat radiating fin portions extending therebetween, each of said troughs including a plurality of spaced openings therethrough,said strip members being positioned in stacked relationship with respective ones of said troughs of one strip member being in sealing nested relationship with at least one of an adjacent strip member, a plurality of closure members positioned in overlying relationship to the opposite lateral ends of said troughs and being sealingly secured to said stacked strip members whereby said troughs define a fluid flowpath from one end of said core assembly to the other end and said heat radiating fin portions define a fluid flowpath laterally through said plurality of stacked strip members.