ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,548, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Outdoor unit for refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Kazunari Sawada (Tokyo), Shinichi Uchino (Tokyo) and Kentaro Nagaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outdoor unit for a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a casing, an air-sending device configured to generate an airflow, and an electric component box disposed above the air-sending device, and including a bottom plate on which control components are placed. The bottom plate of the electric component box includes an inclined portion on which a first component among the control componen...