US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Nov. 18 for "Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,130, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger and air-conditioning apparatus" was invented by Rihito Adachi (Tokyo), Yoji Onaka (Tokyo), Ryota Akaiwa (Tokyo), Yohei Kato (Tokyo) and Yuta Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger includes a distributor; a plurality of heat-transfer tubes; and a refrigerant inflow pipe. The plurality of heat-transfer tubes connected to the distributor stick out into an internal space of the distributor such that when the plurality of heat-transfer tubes and a part defined as the internal space are projected on a plane perpendicular to an ax...