US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Sept. 8 for "Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,916, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Yoji Onaka (Tokyo), Rihito Adachi (Tokyo), Nanami Kishida (Tokyo), Tetsuji Saikusa (Tokyo), Yuki Nakao (Tokyo) and Atsushi Kibe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes heat transfer tubes and a fin disposed between the heat transfer tubes. The fin includes a fin portion defining a flat surface and one or more heat transfer promoter groups including heat transfer promoters. The heat transfer promoters extend from one adjacent heat transfer tube to the other adjacent heat tra...