US Patent Issued to Hitachi Energy on May 20 for "Transformer cooling system and transformer installation" (German, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,159, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Transformer cooling system and transformer installation" was invented by Yong Wang (Brilon, Germany), Jens Tepper (Wolfenbuttel, Germany), Wei Wu (Raleigh, N.C.) and Ava-Ye Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformer cooling system is described. The transformer cooling system includes a dry transformer and a housing for the dry transformer. The dry transformer includes a core including a leg. Additionally, the dry transformer includes a winding body arranged around the leg. Further, a cooling channel extending in a direction of a longitudi...