US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Sept. 8 for "Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,915, issued on Sept. 8, 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), Tetsuji Saikusa (Tokyo), Yohei Kato (Tokyo) and Atsushi Kibe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange modules. Each of the plurality of heat exchange modules includes a pair of headers, a plurality of flat heat-transfer tubes, and a plurality of corrugated fins. The plurality of corrugated fins each have a corrugated shape and are each placed between ones of the flat heat-trans...