US Patent Issued to NORITZ on March 31 for "Linked hot water supply system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,710, issued on March 31, was assigned to NORITZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Linked hot water supply system" was invented by Kazuaki Okumura (Hyogo, Japan), Mitsumasa Shiba (Hyogo, Japan) and Shinsuke Hashimoto (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linked hot water supply system includes: multiple combustion hot water supply devices arranged in parallel between a water supply pipe and a hot water supply pipe; and a control means, changing a number of operated units of the hot water supply devices to adjust a heating capacity according to a hot water consumption. The hot water supply devices each includes a water passing volume de...