US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel on March 24 for "Microchannel heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,693, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Microchannel heat exchanger" was invented by Yasutake Miwa (Takasago, Japan), Yutaka Yagi (Takasago, Japan), Tatsuo Nishihara (Takasago, Japan) and Kenichiro Mitsuhashi (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microchannel heat exchanger is a heat exchanger for cooling hydrogen gas with a cooling medium, and includes a cooling side layer formed with a plurality of medium flow paths for flowing the cooling medium, and a high temperature side layer formed with a plurality of hydrogen flow paths for flowing the hydrogen gas and a first introduction port ...