US Patent Issued to BITZER Kuhlmaschinenbau on June 17 for "Scroll machine with multiple flow paths for the inlet flow including in the hollow shaft portion" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,743, issued on June 17, was assigned to BITZER Kuhlmaschinenbau GmbH (Sindelfingen, Germany).

"Scroll machine with multiple flow paths for the inlet flow including in the hollow shaft portion" was invented by Markus Hauser (Rottenburg am Neckar-Oberndorf, Germany), Christian Scharer (Gaggenau, Germany) and Thomas Varga (Aildingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll machine for a medium has a machine housing having a longitudinal axis and an inlet and an outlet for the medium. Provided in the machine housing along the longitudinal axis is: a drive unit having a drive shaft mounted on the machine housing by a first bearing...