ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,270, issued on June 10, was assigned to CARRIER JAPAN Corp. (Tokyo).
"Air conditioner" was invented by Hiroyuki Nagai (Shizuoka, Japan), Ken Miura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Irvan Brata Tarigan (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner that has a controller and is such that an outdoor unit, which is provided with a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an accumulator, and a supercooling heat exchanger, and indoor units provided with indoor heat exchangers, are connected to each other by connecting piping to constitute a refrigerant circuit. The bottom of the accumulator is connected to an intake side of the compr...