ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,312, issued on May 27, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Refrigeration device and oil cooling device" was invented by Takuya Mimura (Osaka, Japan), Junpei Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Hitoshi Niinuma (Yuki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit having a heat exchanger, a housing that houses at least the heat exchanger and is provided with a suction port on an upstream side of the heat exchanger, and a filter attached to the suction port of the housing. The filter is configured to be held not to come into contact with the heat exchanger. When air containing o...