US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on March 18 for "Air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,277, issued on March 18, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Atsushi Yoshimi (Osaka, Japan), Takuro Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Eiji Kumakura (Osaka, Japan), Ikuhiro Iwata (Osaka, Japan) and Takeru Miyazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air conditioner includes: use-side units that are each switchable between a cooling operation and a heating operation; and a heat-source-side unit including a compressor, a discharge pipe through which a refrigerant discharged from the compressor flows, a first main heat-source-side flow path and a second main heat-source-side flow pat...