Cold storage medium container

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9803933-B2
Application number	US-201414900534-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2014
Priority date	Jun 26, 2013
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

In order to provide a cold storage medium container that can be smoothly and reliably filled with a cold storage medium to thereby increase productivity. In a cold storage medium container 5 , a body of the container 5 constituted of a pair of container members 10 and 12 , and the body has an inner fin 11 therein and is filled with the cold storage medium through a cold storage medium filling opening 20 at an end of the body therein. Furthermore, in the cold storage medium container, an engagement portion 13 projects toward inside of the body to engage a part of a corrugated end surface at each end of the inner fin 11 , to thereby position the inner fin 11 in the body, and a gap is disposed between the end surface at each end of the positioned inner fin 11 and an inner wall of the body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cold storage medium container that is in contact with refrigerant pipes of a cold storage heat exchanger by brazing and contains a cold storage medium for storing cooling capacity of a refrigerant, wherein
peripheral edge portions of a pair of rectangular container members are brazed to each other to form a rectangular container body having a cold storage medium filling opening at an end thereof, the container body has therein an inner fin which is formed in rectangular shape composed of two long sides and two short sides and of which a cross section in parallel with the short sides is formed in a corrugated shape, and is filled with the cold storage medium through the cold storage medium filling opening therein,
engagement portions project toward an inside of the container body to engage a part of a corrugated short sides at each end of the inner fin toward the short sides in the direction in parallel with the long sides, to thereby position the inner fin in the container body,
a gap is disposed between the corrugated short sides of the positioned inner fin and an inner wall of the container body,
the engagement portions which project toward the inside of the container body protrude from a bottom surface of the container along the corrugated short sides of the inner fin, and
the corrugated short sides of the inner fin are formed in parallel with short sides of the container body.

2. The cold storage medium container according to claim 1 , wherein
the cold storage medium filling opening is configured to open toward the direction in parallel with the short side of the container body and to communicate with the gap.

Assignees

• Sanden Holdings Corp

Inventors

• Chiba Tomohiro
• Sakurai Ryosuke
• Takahashi Yuuki
• Yoshizawa Aya

Classifications

• Y02E60/14

  Thermal energy storage · CPC title

• F28F3/044

  the deformations being pontual, e.g. dimples · CPC title

• F28D20/021 Primary

  the latent heat storage material and the heat-exchanging means being enclosed in one container (F28D20/023 - F28D20/028 take precedence) · CPC title

• F28D2020/0013

  the heat storage material being enclosed in elements attached to or integral with heat exchange conduits · CPC title

• F28D20/02

  using latent heat · CPC title