ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,904, issued on May 12, 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 corrugated fin of a heat exchanger is formed such that fin sections are joined together one after another in a tube axial direction of a plurality of flat heat-transfer tubes. Louvers in the fin sections of the corrugated fin are divided into a first louver group formed further upst...