Heat exchanging element and heat exchange ventilator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12188665-B2
Application number	US-202018041855-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 21, 2020
Priority date	Aug 21, 2020
Publication date	Jan 7, 2025
Grant date	Jan 7, 2025

Abstract

A first passage forming member and a second passage forming member each include: a rib portion including a first wall portion constituting an end in a first direction of the first passage, a second wall portion constituting an end in the first direction of the second passage, and a third wall portion separating the first passage and the second passage adjacent to each other in a second direction from each other; a board being in contact with an end in a third direction of the rib portion, and separating a first connection passage and a second connection passage from each other; a first blocking portion installed at the end of the rib portion, to block between the first passage and the second connection passage; and a second blocking portion installed at the end of the rib portion, to block between the second passage and the first connection passage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heat exchanging element comprising a first passage forming member and a second passage forming member stacked alternately, the heat exchanging element including a counterflow part that includes a first passage through which air passes and a second passage through which air flows in a direction opposite a direction in which the air passes through the first passage, wherein
the first passage forming member and the second passage forming member each include:
a rib portion, which constitutes the counterflow part, including a first wall portion constituting an end in a first direction of the first passage, a second wall portion constituting an end in the first direction of the second passage, and a third wall portion separating the first passage and the second passage adjacent to each other in a second direction from each other, the first direction being a direction in which the first passage forming member and the second passage forming member are stacked, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction;
a board being in contact with an end in a third direction of the rib portion, and separating a first connection passage communicating with the first passage and a second connection passage communicating with the second passage from each other, the third direction being perpendicular to the first direction and to the second direction;
a first blocking portion installed at the end of the rib portion, to block between the first passage and the second connection passage; and
a second blocking portion installed at the end of the rib portion, to block between the second passage and the first connection passage.

2. The heat exchanging element according to claim 1 , wherein the third wall portion has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first wall portion and smaller than a thickness of the second wall portion.

3. The heat exchanging element according to claim 1 , wherein the second wall portion has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first wall portion.

4. The heat exchanging element according to claim 1 , wherein a length of the third wall portion in a direction in which the third wall portion is installed to be raised from the first wall portion, is longer than a length of the first wall portion in the second direction, and is longer than a length of the second wall portion in the second direction.

5. The heat exchanging element according to claim 1 , wherein
the first passage forming member and the second passage forming member each include a sheet material with the rib portion formed thereon, and
a thickness of the first wall portion, a thickness of the second wall portion, and a thickness of the third wall portion is smaller than a thickness of an outer edge of the sheet material.

6. A heat exchange ventilator comprising:
a supply fan to generate a supply air flow;
an exhaust fan to generate an exhaust air flow; and
a heat exchanging element in which heat exchange between the supply air flow and the exhaust air flow is carried out, wherein
the heat exchanging element is the heat exchanging element according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Watanabe Tomoya
• Tsubouchi Tsuyoshi
• Okawa Shunsaburo
• Sotokawa Hajime
• Hazumi Kimikazu

Classifications

• F28D9/00

  Heat-exchange apparatus having stationary plate-like or laminated conduit assemblies for both heat-exchange media, the media being in contact with different sides of a conduit wall {(F28F3/083, F28F3/086 take precedence)} · CPC title

• F28F3/08 Primary

  Elements constructed for building-up into stacks, e.g. capable of being taken apart for cleaning · CPC title

• F24F1/028

  characterised by air supply means, e.g. fan casings, internal dampers or ducts (with secondary air induced by injector action of the primary air F24F1/01) · CPC title

• F28F3/048

  in the form of ribs integral with the element or local variations in thickness of the element, e.g. grooves, microchannels · CPC title

• F28F3/046

  the deformations being linear, e.g. corrugations · CPC title