US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 12 for "Heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,972, issued on May 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger" was invented by Yuya Ishihara (Wako, Japan), Masataka Yoshida (Wako, Japan), Tadahiro Fukushima (Wako, Japan) and Hiromitsu Sato (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger for cooling battery cells includes a plurality of first heat exchange plates each including a first water jacket, and a plurality of second heat exchange plates each including a second water jacket. A second water supply inlet is disposed on the opposite side of the first water jacket and the second water jacket from a first water supply inlet in the flow directio...