Patent ID: 8651170

Claim:
A heat exchanger comprising: a plurality of tubes layered with each other, each of the plurality of tubes having a flat cross-section; a plurality of passages defined outside of the layered tubes, wherein heat is exchanged between exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine passing through the plurality of tubes and cooling water passing through the plurality of passages; an inlet through which the cooling water flows into the plurality of passages in a direction perpendicular to a flow direction of the exhaust gas on an inlet side of the exhaust gas; a plurality of projections disposed immediately adjacent the inlet of the exhaust gas; a rib arranged immediately adjacent the plurality of projections between the plurality of projections and an outlet of the exhaust gas, the plurality of projections being the only projections between the rib and the inlet of the exhaust gas; wherein the rib having a width and a length, the length being greater than the width, the length of the rib extending only in the direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the exhaust gas; and a distance between the rib and the inlet side of the exhaust gas is smaller than a distance between the rib and the outlet of the exhaust gas.