Patent ID: 6035928
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: F28D

Abstract:
Fin-tube block for a charge air cooler, said block being mounted in use in a solid frame that consists of two water tanks and two side parts and comprising:metal tubes that extend parallel to one another and have open ends surrounded by the tanks, andfin-shaped corrugated metal ribs through which air flows,wherein the tubes are designed as adjacent channels in a plate-shaped extruded metal section that is stacked alternately with said corrugated ribs and additional plate-shaped extruded sections in a packet design and assembled to form the fin-tube block with a layer of said corrugated ribs located between each pair of adjacent extruded sections in said packet, andwherein said plate-shaped extruded sections include parts permitting connection with corresponding parts of further plate-shaped extruded sections in an air flow direction.