US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on May 20 for "Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,896, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Yoji Onaka (Tokyo), Takashi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Takamasa Uemura (Tokyo), Yohei Kato (Tokyo) and Norihiro Yoneda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes flat pipes and a gas header. The gas header longitudinally extends in a Y-direction such that refrigerant flows in the Y-direction, the flat pipes are spaced from each other in the Y-direction, joints inserted in the gas header in an X-direction are disposed at respective ends of the flat pipes, and gaps between the joints ...