ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,699, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Supply air demister" was invented by Yoshiaki Arakawa (Tokyo), Takashi Ikeda (Tokyo), Kenichi Iwanaga (Tokyo), Go Tomatsu (Tokyo) and Koji Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This supply air demister comprises a duct forming a flow channel through which supply air flows upward from below, and a demister body provided above the duct. The demister body has: a plurality of gutter parts having a receiving surface depressed downward and extending obliquely, and provided side by side at intervals from each other; and a plurality of return parts pro...