US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on July 21 for "Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,328, issued on July 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Nanami Kishida (Tokyo), Yoji Onaka (Tokyo) and Rihito Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a leeward heat exchange unit disposed downstream in an air flow direction, a windward heat exchange unit, and a common header. The leeward heat exchange unit includes a first header, the windward heat exchange unit includes a second header, and, when the leeward heat exchange unit and the windward heat exchange unit each function as a condenser, the leeward heat exchange ...