ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,381, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Heat exchanger manufacturing device and manufacturing method" was invented by Takaya Oda (Osaka, Japan), Takaki Ohata (Osaka, Japan), Motofumi Shimizu (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a flat tube and a fin that is formed in an elongated plate shape and that includes a fin slit formed by notching the fin in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the fin. A manufacturing device for manufacturing the heat exchanger includes an insertion head configured to move up and dow...