US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, DAIKIN EUROPE on Jan. 27 for "Heat pump system and controller for controlling operation of the same" (Belgian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,250, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and DAIKIN EUROPE N.V. (Ostend, Belgium).

"Heat pump system and controller for controlling operation of the same" was invented by Kevin Cornelis (Ostend, Belgium) and Satoshi Kawano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a heat pump system having a compressor, a liquid-side on-off valve, a gas-side on-off valve, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a refrigerant recovery operation for recovering refrigerant from a utilization-side piping section to a heatsource-side piping section by operating the compressor while the ...