US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 22 for "Refrigeration cycle device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,219, issued on July 22, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Tooru Okamura (Kariya, Japan), Yoshiki Katoh (Kariya, Japan), Masamichi Makihara (Kariya, Japan), Kuniyoshi Tanioka (Kariya, Japan) and Takahiro Maeda (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a refrigeration cycle device, a heat supply unit is disposed in parallel with a heat utilization unit in a flow of a heat medium. A branching part branches the heat medium flowing out of a heat radiator into a flow flowing toward the heat utilization unit and a flow flowing toward the heat supply unit. A merging part is confi...