ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,128, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).
"Heat exchange fin, heat exchanger, and heat pump system" was invented by Chao Ding (Shanghai), Liang Xiang (Shanghai), Yang Ge (Shanghai) and Weijie Shao (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a heat exchange fin, with a tube hole formed thereon for a heat exchange tube to be inserted into. A corrugated structure is arranged near the tube hole. The corrugated structure comprises a wave section arranged along a flow direction of fluid medium. The distance between two adjacent wave crests or wave troughs of the wave section is ...