ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,349, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG DUNAN ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT Co. LTD. (Shaoxing, China).
"Micro-channel heat exchanger" was invented by Hongbo Huang (Shaoxing, China), Yu Sun (Shaoxing, China) and Huangang Yu (Shaoxing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a micro-channel heat exchanger including two collecting pipes, and a plurality of flat pipes and two side plates that are arranged between the two collecting pipes, wherein the two side plates are located on two outer sides of the flat pipes and are defined as a first side plate and a second side plate respectively; fins are respectiv...