US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on Sept. 16 for "Refrigerant vessel and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,434, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Refrigerant vessel and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Kumiko Saeki (Osaka, Japan), Yuta Iyoshi (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiki Yamanoi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a refrigerant vessel and a refrigeration cycle apparatus capable of suppressing accumulation of a refrigerating machine oil inside. A secondary-side receiver reserves a refrigerant in a secondary-side refrigerant circuit in which a refrigerant and a refrigerating machine oil circulate, the secondary-side receiver including a vessel body, a first refrige...