US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Aug. 5 for "Plate fin heat exchanger flexible manifold" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,163, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Plate fin heat exchanger flexible manifold" was invented by James Streeter (Torrington, Conn.), Feng Feng (South Windsor, Conn.) and Matthew William Miller (Enfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible manifold adapted for use on a plate-fin heat exchanger core, the flexible manifold including a plurality of individual layers configured to be metallurgically joined to respective ones of a plurality of layers of the plate-fin heat exchanger core, and further including a first end with at least one port adapted to receive or discharge a medi...