US Patent Issued to Copeland on Sept. 16 for "Compressor with shutdown assembly" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,308, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Copeland LP (Sidney, Ohio).

"Compressor with shutdown assembly" was invented by Daniel J. Striebich (Troy, Ohio), Lukas Gephart (Sidney, Ohio), Saurabh Prabhakar (Pune, India), Yogesh S. Mahure (Pune, India) and Joseph M. Shepherd (Lima, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor may include first and second scrolls, and a shutdown assembly. The first and second scrolls have first and second spiral wraps, respectively. The second scroll includes a discharge passage that receives compressed working fluid from a pocket defined by the first and second spiral wraps. The shutdown assembly ma...