US Patent Issued to Rheem Manufacturing on April 8 for "Distributor systems for heat exchangers" (Texas, Arkansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,583, issued on April 8, was assigned to Rheem Manufacturing Co. (Atlanta).

"Distributor systems for heat exchangers" was invented by Pratik S. Deokar (Dallas), Baojie Mu (Fort Smith, Ark.) and Chitra Sadanandan (Lewisville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header tube assembly is disclosed and can include an outer tube, an inner tube, and a flow valve. Each of the outer and inner tubes can include an open end and a closed end, as well as a plurality of apertures extending through a sidewall of the outer tube and inner tube, respectively. The apertures of the inner tube can permit a flow of refrigerant between an internal volume...