Patent 11118842 was granted and assigned to Rinnai on September, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The heat exchanger (1) has a plurality of heat exchange units (10) stacked in a direction of a gas flow passage of combustion exhaust gas, each of the heat exchange units (10) includes an internal space (14) through which a fluid to be heated flows, a plurality of gas vents (13) penetrating the internal space (14) in a non-communicating state and through which the combustion exhaust gas passes, and an inwardly directed step portion (17) reducing a height of the internal space (14) between adjacent gas vents (13).