Charge air cooler for transferring heat between coolant and charge air, has heat exchange core having stack of embossed plate pairs with coolant flow paths and elongated spacers with charge air flow paths, and inlet and outlet tanks

摘要

A charge air cooler (10) comprises a heat exchange core (30) including a stack of embossed plate pairs each defining a circuitous coolant flow path through the core, and elongated spacers interleaved with the plate pairs to at least partially define charge air flow paths (46) between adjacent plate pairs through the core; a charge air inlet tank (32) connected to a first side of the core to direct the charge air into the charge air flow paths; and a charge air outlet tank (33) connected to a second side of the core to collect the charge air from the charge air flow paths. An independent claim is included for a method of assembling the charge air cooler.