Heat exchanging device with heat exchanging plates

Claim 1

A heat exchanger for a heat generating unit (1) mounted within a fluid enclosure (2), comprising: (a) spaced upper and lower flanges (14a, 15a), horizontally elongate connecting manifolds (14, 15) mounted around horizontally elongate upper and lower first openings in a sidewall (2a) of the enclosure, said manifolds thus communicating directly with the interior of the enclosure, and each having an outer wall projecting horizontally outwardly from the enclosure sidewall and defining a plurality of spaced, horizontally aligned, vertically oriented second openings (16), and (b) a plurality of spaced, parallel, horizontally aligned and vertically oriented, substantially rectangular heat exchanging plates (12) each defining a plurality of vertical internal fluid flow passages integral and unitary with and openly communicating at tops and bottoms thereof with respective upper and lower horizontal plenums, said plenums individually defining respective vertically oriented third openings (13) at upper and lower corners of one side of said plates, said third openings being matingly configured to said second openings, and said plates being individually and sealingly mounted to said upper and lower manifolds such that said second and third openings are coextensive and define through passages communicating between the interiors of the enclosure and the respective plates, the outer wall of each manifold projecting horizontally outwardly from the enclosure sidewall only a small fraction of the horizontal width of the plates.