ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,265, issued on June 10, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Outdoor unit for air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Yoshikazu Yaji (Tokyo), Masaru Shinozaki (Tokyo), Ryuji Momose (Tokyo), Koichi Arisawa (Tokyo), Takaaki Takahara (Tokyo) and Keisuke Uemura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides an outdoor unit for an air-conditioning apparatus with improved reliability.The outdoor unit (1000) includes a housing whose inside is divided into a fan chamber (110) and a machine chamber (120). A compressor and a reactor that are heat-generating components are provided in a lower area of the machi...