US Patent Issued to KLINGENBURG on July 21 for "Plate for a plate-type heat exchanger" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,351, issued on July 21, was assigned to KLINGENBURG GMBH (Gladbeck, Germany).

"Plate for a plate-type heat exchanger" was invented by Kai Klingenburg (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate for a heat exchanger is made by first providing a first rigid support layer of a flat generally planar shape and consisting of a broken-through and plastically deformable material. Then a flat generally planar membrane layer capable of transferring enthalpy between two fluid streams is laminated to the first layer by a surface-connection layer. These three laminated-together layers are then deformed into a three-dimensional shape."...