US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER on Jan. 28 for "Heat exchanger and method for manufacturing such a heat exchanger" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,824, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP (Wilrijk, Belgium).

"Heat exchanger and method for manufacturing such a heat exchanger" was invented by Johan De Herdt (Wilrijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger with a housing (3) that contains a set of channels (12); an inlet collector (4) having an inlet collector chamber (9) with an inlet (5), wherein the inlet collector chamber (9) includes first flow distribution means (10) configured to distribute a flow originating from the inlet (5) evenly over the set of channels (12); and an outlet collector (6). The first flow-rate di...