To reduce pressure loss on a heat-exchanger fluid while downsizing a heat
exchange and reducing the production cost of the heat exchanger without
impairment of the heat transfer performance of the heat exchanger by
forming a fluid channel in surfaces of thin metal plates such as
stainless steel plates through the use of an etching technique or the
like and by improving the shape of the fluid channel. In a heat exchanger
in which a plurality of heat exchanger fins are provided in thin metal
plates by using an etching technique or the like and a fluid channel for
a heat-exchanger fluid is formed between the two opposed thin metal
plates by alternately stacking the thin metal plates, the area of the
fluid channel, through which the fluid flows between the heat exchanger
fins, is made substantially uniform by forming the heat exchanger fins so
as to have a curved cross-sectional shape from the front end thereof to
the rear end.