Patent ID: 8561679

Claim:
An aluminum heat exchanger comprising: an aluminum core that includes: a plurality of fluid-carrying tubes, and a pair of headers, each header in said pair of headers being disposed over said plurality of fluid-carrying tubes along a corresponding one of a first pair of opposite sides of said core, each said header including: a base portion including a plurality of apertures therein for receiving said plurality of fluid-carrying tubes therethrough, a drafted wall circumferentially surrounding said base portion and outwardly slanted from perpendicular to the plane in which the base portion generally lies, said drafted wall extending toward said plurality of fluid-carrying tubes, and a curved fillet linking said base portion to said drafted wall; and a pair of aluminum tanks, each tank in said pair of tanks being attached to a corresponding one of said pair of headers, each said tank including: an elongate aluminum housing having: a top panel having two longer sides and two shorter sides, a pair of longer side panels extending from respective longer sides of said top panel, each longer side panel having a first outer surface and a first inner surface, a pair of shorter side panels extending from respective shorter sides of said top panel, each shorter side panel having a second outer surface and a second inner surface, and an indentation in said aluminum tanks at each juncture of said pair of longer side panels and said pair of shorter side panels, wherein portions of each said first inner surface and each said second inner surface are attached to said drafted wall of each corresponding header with alignment support from said curved fillet of said corresponding header; and a plurality of sidebracket mounts, each sidebracket mount to fit into one of said indentation at each juncture of said pair of longer side panels and said pair of shorter side panels to engage one of a pair of sidebrackets.