US Patent Issued to NORTIZ on May 27 for "Heat exchanger and water heater" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,296, issued on May 27, was assigned to NORTIZ Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Heat exchanger and water heater" was invented by Takeshi Ohigashi (Hyogo, Japan), Shigeo Sugie (Hyogo, Japan), Norihide Wada (Hyogo, Japan), Kengo Horiuchi (Hyogo, Japan) and Naoya Shiotsu (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a case, a first and second heat exchanger disposed inside the case, a partition member disposed inside the case, and a duct. The case has a first side wall and a second side wall spaced apart from and facing each other in a first direction, a third side wall and a fourth side wall spaced apart from and facing e...