US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on April 8 for "Warm-water generating apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,575, issued on April 8, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Warm-water generating apparatus" was invented by Masanori Ukibune (Osaka, Japan), Atsushi Okamoto (Osaka, Japan), Mitsushi Itano (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Karube (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Yotsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Yuzo Komatsu (Osaka, Japan), Shun Ohkubo (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuya Takakuwa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warm-water generating apparatus (1) uses, as a refrigerant, a mixed refrigerant containing at least 1,2-difluoroethylene (HFO-1132(E)). The warm-water generating apparatus (1) includes a compres...