US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on May 27 for "Refrigerant flow path switching device and air conditioning system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,310, issued on May 27, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Refrigerant flow path switching device and air conditioning system" was invented by Kazuki Ikari (Osaka, Japan), Naoyuki Ohta (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Imada (Osaka, Japan) and Junichi Shimoda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant flow path switching device includes: a first header pipe that is connected to a high-and-low-pressure gas connection pipe of a heat source unit in an air conditioner; a second header pipe that is connected to a sucked-gas connection pipe of the heat source unit; a third header pipe that is connected to a liqui...