US Patent Issued to DANFOSS on Feb. 17 for "Manifold assembly and heat exchanger" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,674, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Manifold assembly and heat exchanger" was invented by Jing Yuan (Zhejiang, China), Feng Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Yubao Liu (Zhejiang, China) and Xuemei Yang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are a manifold assembly and a heat exchanger. The manifold assembly includes a manifold and a connecting tube assembly. The connecting tube assembly includes an adapter and a steering member. The adapter includes: a tubular part located outside the manifold; and a step part protruding inward from the inner surface of the tubu...