US Patent Issued to KOBELCO COMPRESSORS on April 21 for "Gas cooler" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,178, issued on April 21, was assigned to KOBELCO COMPRESSORS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gas cooler" was invented by Noboru Tsuboi (Hyogo, Japan), Hajime Nakamura (Hyogo, Japan), Junichiro Totsuka (Hyogo, Japan) and Kazuya Hirata (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas cooler includes a drain recovery part, a drain discharge flow path, a drain tank, and a ventilation flow path. In the drain recovery part, drain separated from gas is accumulated by cooling the gas in a cooling part. The drain tank includes a separation part in which the drain and the gas are separated, and a storage part in which the separated drain is stored. The dra...