US Patent Issued to Carrier Japan on Nov. 11 for "Refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,674, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Carrier Japan Corp. (Tokyo).

"Refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Kohei Maruko (Fuji, Japan), Shohei Arita (Fuji, Japan), Masaaki Sato (Fuji, Japan), Hiroichi Yamaguchi (Fuji, Japan), Atsushi Baba (Fuji, Japan) and Yukio Kiguchi (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a main flow channel of a refrigerant, a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, a branch channel, an expansion valve, a supercooling heat exchanger, an injection flow channel, and a control unit. The control unit determines, based on whether the d...