US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 2 for "Air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,302, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Yuji Sakano (Toyota, Japan), Shigeki Yoshida (Toyoake, Japan), Masashi Ichihashi (Mizuho, Japan), Naokatsu Osawa (Nagoya, Japan), Manabu Shirai (Nagoya, Japan) and Ryuta Iijima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes an inlet; a suction channel through which air sucked from the inlet flows; a spray unit configured to spray water to be vaporized; a first channel through which first air to be cooled by heat of vaporization of water sprayed from the spray unit flows; a heat exchanger configured ...