US Patent Issued to AUDI on Aug. 26 for "Refrigeration system having a heat pump function for a motor vehicle, having a single sensor device on the low-pressure side" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,617, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Refrigeration system having a heat pump function for a motor vehicle, having a single sensor device on the low-pressure side" was invented by Hans Hammer (Pfaffenhofen, Germany), Christian Rebinger (Munich) and Dirk Schroeder (Manching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration system having a heat pump function for a motor vehicle. The refrigeration system includes: a refrigerant compressor which is connectable or connected to a primary line; a directly or indirectly acting external heat exchanger, which is arranged in the primary line; a first evap...