US Patent Issued to GEA TDS on March 24 for "Method for producing welded connections and an auxiliary device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,044, issued on March 24, was assigned to GEA TDS GmbH (Sarstedt, Germany).

"Method for producing welded connections and an auxiliary device" was invented by Kevin Winking (Stadtlohn, Germany), Carsten Isferding (Ahaus, Germany), Wolfgang Jackering (Emsburen-Berge, Germany), Ralf Speemann (Altenberge, Germany), Andreas Schmied (Dulmen, Germany) and Ludger Tacke (Velen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Producing welded connections between inner tubes and tube support plates of a tube bundle for a product-to-product shell-and-tube heat exchanger by means of an auxiliary device is described. A production method includes pressing t...