US Patent Issued to Kobe Steel, Mitsubishi Electric on April 29 for "Aluminum fin material, heat exchanger, air conditioner, and method for producing aluminum fin material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,160, issued on April 29, was assigned to Kobe Steel Ltd. (Kobe, Japan) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Aluminum fin material, heat exchanger, air conditioner, and method for producing aluminum fin material" was invented by Ryosuke Tsunoda (Tochigi, Japan), Keita Tateyama (Tochigi, Japan), Reiji Morioka (Tokyo), Etsuko Hirose (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aluminum fin material includes an aluminum plate, an erosion-resistant coating layer on a surface of the aluminum plate, and a hydrophilic coating layer formed on a surface of the erosion-resistant coating layer. The erosio...