ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,082, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Complex heat exchanger" was invented by Young-Ha Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A complex heat exchanger capable of working in different air conditioning modes by controlling flow of coolant in a refrigerant-coolant secondary loop system linked with a primary loop of refrigerant circulation. The heat exchanger is capable to perform heating or cooling operation with the flowing coolant being heated or cooled by the refrigerant, while two heat exchanger cores are disposed in parallel, and a path regulating manifold is provided to c...