ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,220, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Water jacket" was invented by Hirosumi Todaka (Saitama, Japan) and Yasunari Kimura (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water jacket for cooling a plate-shaped heat generating component includes a base having a thin plate shape. The base includes: a refrigerant inflow portion configured to allow a refrigerant to flow thereinto; a refrigerant flow path that communicates with the refrigerant inflow portion and is branched inside the base; and a refrigerant outflow portion that communicates with the refrigerant flow path and is configured to allow the r...