US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on June 3 for "Centrifugal air-sending device and air-conditioning apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,363, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Centrifugal air-sending device and air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Takuya Teramoto (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Hayashi (Tokyo), Ryo Horie (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Akari (Saitama, Japan), Takashi Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Kazuya Michikami (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamatani (Tokyo), Masahiko Takagi (Tokyo), Kazuki Watanabe (Tokyo) and Hidetoshi Seki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal air-sending device has blades that each have a vane length in a first region that is greater than a vane length in a second region, and are each formed such that a proportion for which...