ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,271, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Rihito Adachi (Tokyo), Yoji Onaka (Tokyo), Nanami Kishida (Tokyo), Tetsuji Saikusa (Tokyo) and Yuki Nakao (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger and an inter-row connecting pipe. The first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger each include: a plurality of heat transfer tubes extending in a vertical direction and spaced apart from each other in a horizontal direction; a first header located at lower ends of the pluralit...