ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,942, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Heat source unit and refrigeration apparatus" was invented by Masaaki Takegami (Osaka, Japan), Akitoshi Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Shuichi Taguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Horita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration apparatus includes a gas-liquid separator on a downstream side of a radiator, and a refrigerant circuit in which a high pressure of a refrigeration cycle is equal to or higher than a critical pressure. The refrigeration apparatus includes a gas passage that communicates with the gas-liquid separator and at least one of a pl...