ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,597, issued on June 3, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Plate-type heat exchanger" was invented by Sangyong Rhee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyunkeun Shin (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sang Ok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide a plate-type heat exchanger in which the formation of burrs and chips during fin processing may be eliminated by eliminating fin processing work for stacking and bonding fins and plates. In order to achieve the above purpose, a plate-type heat exchanger according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: plate...