MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517072423 A) filed by Daikin Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan, on July 30, for 'shell-and-plate type heat exchanger and refrigeration device.'

Inventor(s) include Utsumi Daichi; Yamaguchi Masaki; Numata Mitsuharu; and Ichimura Shuhei.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A partition member (5) is disposed between a plate laminate (30) and a refrigerant inlet (21). The partition member (5) extends in a first direction which is the lamination direction of the plate laminate (30). The partition member (5) has a plurality of communicatio...