ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,807, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Heat exchanger and air conditioner" was invented by Yoshiyuki Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Shun Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan), Tooru Andou (Osaka, Japan), Tomoki Hirokawa (Osaka, Japan) and Hideyuki Kusaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes: rows of heat transfer tubes disposed next to one another in an air flow direction; and headers each connected to an end of each of the rows of heat transfer tubes. A center position of an upstream-most header disposed on a most upstream side in the air flow direction among the headers is dis...