ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,933, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Dana Canada Corp. (Oakville, Canada).
"Compact heat exchanger with wavy fin turbulizer" was invented by Andrei Catuneanu (Oakville, Canada), John G. Burgers (Oakville, Canada) and Kenneth M. A. Abels (Oakville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a fluid flow passage with a wavy fin turbulizer. The turbulizer includes sidewalls extending lengthwise along a fluid flow direction between its first and second ends, and the sidewalls are spaced apart across the width of the turbulizer. Each flow channel of the turbulizer is defined between two adjacent sidewalls. Each sidew...