ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,055, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Compressor unit" was invented by Shota Kamei (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Katayama (Osaka, Japan), Daiki Kikutake (Osaka, Japan), Keiji Komori (Osaka, Japan) and Shogo Tsuchikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor unit includes a compressor and an accumulator. The compressor includes a vertically elongated first casing, an electric motor, a drive shaft, and a compression mechanism. The accumulator includes a vertically elongated second casing. In a frequency range between a value three times larger than a maximum compressor rotation sp...