US Patent Issued to NORITZ on Sept. 8 for "Heat exchanger and hot water apparatus including heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,878, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NORITZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Heat exchanger and hot water apparatus including heat exchanger" was invented by Norihide Wada (Hyogo, Japan), Kengo Horiuchi (Hyogo, Japan), Hideyuki Fujisawa (Hyogo, Japan) and Akinobu Nakamura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a header part that is arranged on an outer surface side of a sidewall part of a case into which a combustion gas is supplied, and has hole parts through which end parts of heat transfer tubes are inserted and forms a chamber communicating between insides of the heat transfer tubes. The heat exchanger fu...