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(11) EP 0 086 559 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
11.01.1984 Bulletin 1984/02

(43) Date of publication A2:
24.08.1983 Bulletin 1983/34

(21) Application number: 83300209

(22) Date of filing: 17.01.1983
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB IT SE

(30) Priority: 16.02.1982 GB 8204547

(71) Applicant: Unipart Group Limited
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(72) Inventors:
  • Banton, Anthony Phillip
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  • Wilson, Clive Winston
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(54) Improvements relating to heat exchangers


(57) A motor vehicle radiator has fins 11 which are self spacing by virtue of spacing members 14 raised out of the material of the fin. The spacing members each have an elongate shape in cross-section in a plane parallel to the fin which is set at an angle of incidence to the air flow through the radiator, whereby to disturb the air flow and improve the heat transfer efficiency.






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