US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Airbus on Jan. 27 for "Pump arrangement for providing a saturated liquid" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,061, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Airbus S.A.S. (Blagnac, France).

"Pump arrangement for providing a saturated liquid" was invented by Armin Isselhorst (Blagnac, France), Kei Philipp Behruzi (Blagnac, France) and Peter Friese (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump arrangement for providing a saturated or subcooled liquid includes a tank for saturated liquid, a heat exchanger for cooling the saturated liquid, a pump, an expansion valve, and an output for feeding saturated or subcooled liquid to a consumer. A tank outlet is in fluid communication with a liquid inlet o...