ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,042, issued on May 12, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Method for checking quality of heat exchanger" was invented by Hiroaki Kanazawa (Takasago, Japan), Kentaro Tanaka (Takasago, Japan), Hideki Takafuji (Takasago, Japan) and Tadashi Ikeuchi (Takasago, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking quality of a heat exchanger includes the steps of: performing a liquid pressure test for the heat exchanger including a first flow path and a second flow path adjacent to the first flow path by filling the first flow path and the second flow path with a liquid in a pressurized state; discharging the liquid from ...