ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,291, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Outdoor unit, and refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Hayato Kurino (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Jinnai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outdoor unit includes a housing having first and second rooms; a heat exchanger and a blower inside of the first room; and controlling circuitry inside the second room, wherein a drain water hole is formed on a bottom of the first room; a flow path portion thereof is connected and is formed so as to straddle bottoms of the rooms and supports support a partitioning member, are formed on the bottom of the housing. An i...