Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takayuki Tarui

Mitsuhiro Ikeda

Hironori Yabuuchi

Akira Yatsuyanagi

Yuki Nakao

Yu Tamaki

Tatsuya Ishimori

Hisanori Ueki

Outdoor unit for air conditioner

A heat exchanger includes: a heat exchange element including flat tubes spaced from each other; and a first header in which one end portion of each of the flat tubes is inserted. The first header includes: a first main header portion in which some of the flat tubes are inserted; a first sub-header portion in which others of the flat tubes are inserted such that the number of the flat tubes inserted in the first sub-header portion is smaller than that of the flat tubes inserted in the first main header portion; and a partition plate provided between the first main header portion and the first sub-header portion, and joined to the first main header portion and the first sub-header portion. The partition plate has a surface area that is larger than a sectional area of the first main header portion and a sectional area of the first sub-header portion.

Heat exchanger, outdoor unit, and air-conditioning apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Tarui