US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 19 for "Fuel cell power plant heat exchanger" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,550, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell power plant heat exchanger" was invented by Koji Moriyama (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Richard Y. Asato (Torrance, Calif.), Ryosuke Shibata (Saitama, Japan) and Brian Moran (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger for a fuel cell power plant system may include a first loop and a second loop. For the first loop, a first coolant may be passed through a fuel cell stack, a thermostat, a first portion of a first plate of the heat exchanger, and a fuel cell pump. For the second loop, a second coolant may be passed through a second p...