US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on May 12 for "Heat exchanger, air-conditioning apparatus equipped with heat exchanger, and method of manufacturing heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,898, issued on May 12, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger, air-conditioning apparatus equipped with heat exchanger, and method of manufacturing heat exchanger" was invented by Takayuki Katsumaru (Tokyo), Ryohei Kawabata (Tokyo), Tetsuji Saikusa (Tokyo), Keizo Kamada (Tokyo), Yu Tamaki (Tokyo) and Mitsuhiro Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes: flat heat transfer tubes having refrigerant flow passages, extending in an up-down direction, spaced apart from each other in a lateral direction and arranged in two rows; and corrugated fins each provided between associated adjace...