Water heat exchanger with tube drainage member

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10465943-B2
Application number	US-201715665622-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2017
Priority date	Aug 25, 2016
Publication date	Nov 5, 2019
Grant date	Nov 5, 2019

Abstract

A heat exchanger having a drainage member (1) mounted on an open end (322) of a heat-transfer tube (32), wherein the drainage member (1) contains a flow guide portion (11) including an insertion portion (11a) configured to be inserted into the heat-transfer tube (32) from the open end (322), and a projecting portion (11b) projecting toward an outside of the heat-transfer tube (32) from the open end (322) and extending downward.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heat exchanger configured to heat a fluid by heat exchange with combustion exhaust gas ejected from a burner, the heat exchanger comprising:
a case body;
a plurality of heat-transfer tubes arranged in at least a vertical direction inside the case body, wherein the fluid heated by the combustion exhaust gas flows through each of the heat-transfer tubes;
a header configured to communicate open ends of the plurality of heat-transfer tubes arranged in the vertical direction, the header being provided in a side wall outer surface of the case body, and having a header body to which the open ends of the plurality of heat-transfer tubes are connected, and a header cover joined to the header body;
a drainage member disposed at at least one of the open ends protruding into an internal space of the header, the drainage member having a flow guide portion including an insertion portion configured to be inserted into the heat-transfer tube from the open end along a lower inner wall of the heat-transfer tube, and a projecting portion provided continuously to the insertion portion so as to project toward an outside of the heat-transfer tube from the open end and being bent downward from a forefront portion of the insertion portion and extended inward to a bottom surface of the header body; and
a flow guide space configured to guide the fluid inside the heat-transfer tube to the outside of the heat-transfer tube, when the insertion portion is inserted into the heat-transfer tube from the open end, the flow guide space being formed continuously between the insertion portion and the lower inner wall of the heat-transfer tube, and between the projecting portion and the open end of the heat-transfer tube.

2. The heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein the drainage member has an extending portion extending from an open end side to a back surface of the header cover, wherein the extending portion is pressed by the header cover to hold a posture of the drainage member in the header.

3. The heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein
the open ends of the plurality of heat-transfer tubes protrude outward from the bottom surface of the header body continuous to the side wall outer surface of the case body,
the drainage member includes a hanging portion extending downward from a lower end of the flow guide portion along the bottom surface of the header body, and
when the insertion portion is inserted from an upper open end into an upper heat-transfer tube among the two heat-transfer tubes arranged side by side vertically, a back surface of the hanging portion abuts on the bottom surface of the header body, and a lower end of the hanging portion abuts on an outer wall top portion of a lower open end of a lower heat-transfer tube.

4. The heat exchanger according to claim 1 , wherein,
two or more of the drainage member are coupled in the vertical direction.

5. A water heater comprising the heat exchanger according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Rinnai Kk

Inventors

• Nagasaka Toshimitsu
• Nakagoshi Takaaki

Classifications

• F28F7/02

  Blocks traversed by passages for heat-exchange media {(F28D7/0008 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• F28F2265/22

  for draining · CPC title

• F24H1/526

  Pipes in pipe heat exchangers for sanitary water · CPC title

• F24H1/263 Primary

  with a dry-wall combustion chamber · CPC title

• F28D21/00

  Heat-exchange apparatus not covered by any of the groups F28D1/00 - F28D20/00 · CPC title