Patent ID: 6951240

Claim:
A heat exchanger apparatus using air to cool fluids for a motor vehicle comprising: a first heat exchanger for cooling a first fluid having a length between opposite ends and including front and rear opposite faces through which air flows; a second heat exchanger for cooling a second fluid having a length between opposite ends and including front and rear opposite faces through which air flows; each of the first and second heat exchangers including an overlapping fluid-cooling portion at one end of the heat exchanger wherein the rear face at one end of the first heat exchanger is disposed adjacent the front face at one end of the second heat exchanger, such that the air flows sequentially in series through the overlapping portions of each of the first and second heat exchangers; and each of the first and second heat exchangers each having a non-overlapping fluid-cooling portion at the end opposite the overlapping portion end wherein the rear face at the opposite end of the first heat exchanger extends outward of the second heat exchanger and the front face at the opposite end of the second heat exchanger extends outward of the first heat exchanger, such that the air flows singularly and in parallel through each of the non-overlapping portions of the first and second heat exchangers.