ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,286, issued on June 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Attachment structure for expansion valves" was invented by Yuki Sugiyama (Kariya, Japan), Masakazu Morimoto (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Mizuno (Kariya, Japan) and Masaki Uchiyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment structure includes expansion valves used in a vehicle, and a housing to which the expansion valves are attached. The housing includes a flow path through which heat medium circulating in a heat pump cycle of an air conditioner of the vehicle flows, and the flow path is opened and closed by the expansion valves."
The patent was file...