Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heat-exchanger fixing plate and indoor unit of air-conditioning apparatus
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Application No.: US17432650Application Date: 2019-04-23
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Publication No.: US11940174B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Mizuki Yada , Hisanori Ikeda , Takuya Niimura , Ryosuke Taoka , Yosuke Katayama , Yusuke Tatara , Yuto Taniguchi
- Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: POSZ LAW GROUP, PLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/017198 2019.04.23
- International Announcement: WO2020/217307A 2020.10.29
- Date entered country: 2021-08-20
- Main IPC: F24F13/30
- IPC: F24F13/30 ; F24F1/60 ; F24F13/20

Abstract:
A heat-exchanger fixing plate fixes a side portion of a heat exchanger to a housing panel of an air-conditioning apparatus, the heat exchanger including a heat radiation fin and a heat transfer tube. The heat-exchanger fixing plate includes a heat-exchanger support portion facing the side portion of the heat exchanger, and having an insertion hole through which a hairpin portion of the heat transfer tube of the heat exchanger is inserted; and a housing-panel fixing portion separate from and fitted to the heat-exchanger support portion fastened with a screw to the housing panel such that the heat exchanger is fixed to the housing panel. The housing-panel fixing portion is made of material having a higher mechanical strength than that of the heat-exchanger support portion, and the heat-exchanger support portion is made of the material having a lower friction coefficient than that of the housing-panel fixing portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220163232A1 HEAT-EXCHANGER FIXING PLATE AND INDOOR UNIT OF AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-05-26
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