US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 29 for "Thermal cracking tube with fluid agitating element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,312, issued on July 29, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Thermal cracking tube with fluid agitating element" was invented by Motoyuki Matsubara (Hirakata, Japan), Kunihide Hashimoto (Hirakata, Japan) and Toru Sukawa (Hirakata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a thermal cracking tube formed with an agitating element that has a good agitation effect and improves heat transfer efficiency while minimizing an increase in the pressure loss of the fluid flowing through the cracking tube.A thermal cracking tube 10 with an agitating element of the present invention is a thermal cracking tube hav...