US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on April 8 for "Heat exchanger and method of manufacturing heat exchanger" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,612, issued on April 8, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and method of manufacturing heat exchanger" was invented by Ryohei Kawabata (Tokyo), Masashi Nakamura (Tokyo), Naoki Chiku (Tokyo), Kota Inami (Tokyo) and Junki Oonishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger has: a heat transfer tube group made up of plural heat transfer tubes each of which has, inside the heat transfer tube, a flow passage through which refrigerant flows; a fin provided on the heat transfer tubes; and a bridging header into which end portions of the heat transfer tubes are inserted and that causes refrigerant t...