US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on June 23 for "Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,222, issued on June 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Yoji Onaka (Tokyo), Rihito Adachi (Tokyo), Nanami Kishida (Tokyo), Taisaku Gomyo (Tokyo), Tetsuji Saikusa (Tokyo), Yuki Nakao (Tokyo), Atsushi Kibe (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Morimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a plurality of flat heat-transfer tubes and a corrugated fin placed between the plurality of flat heat-transfer tubes. Louvers in fin sections of the corrugated fin are divided into a first louver group formed further upstream in a direction of flow of air ...