US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Nov. 3 for "Plate heat exchanger with hollowed-out plate(s)" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,063, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Plate heat exchanger with hollowed-out plate(s)" was invented by Fabio Aste (Grenoble, France), Bertrand Chandez (Grenoble, France) and Hai Trieu Phan (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger including: first and second heat-exchange modules comprising fluid-circulation systems, partition plates which fluidically disconnect adjacent fluid-circulation systems, at least one of the heat-exchange modules including: a frame plate of constant thickness, including a through-aperture, and an insert fully hou...