ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,917, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Copeland LP (Sidney, Ohio).
"Scroll assemblies and compressors including the same" was invented by Kirill Michailovich Ignatiev (Oakwood, Ohio), Mikhail A. Antimonov (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Robert Christopher Stover (Versailles, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes a shell and a main bearing housing positioned within the shell. The main bearing housing includes a scroll assembly positioned within the shell and positioned relative to a first cavity of the main bearing housing, the scroll assembly includes a non-orbiting scroll, an orbiting scroll, and a cylindrical hub, and ...