US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on June 30 for "Shell-and-plate heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,290, issued on June 30, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Shell-and-plate heat exchanger" was invented by Mitsuharu Numata (Osaka, Japan), Kou Terai (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Shibata (Osaka, Japan) and Hirokazu Fujino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shell and plate heat exchanger includes a shell forming an internal space, and a plate stack housed in the internal space. A plurality of refrigerant channels communicate with the internal space, and a plurality of heating medium channels are blocked from the internal space. Each of the refrigerant channels is adjacent to an associated one of the heating ...