ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,641, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Connection module" was invented by Masakazu Morimoto (Kariya, Japan), Yasuhiro Mizuno (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Uchiyama (Kariya, Japan) and Yuki Sugiyama (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of components of a refrigeration cycle are connected to a connection module. The connection module includes a body having a refrigerant flow path that constitutes a part of a refrigerant flow path in the refrigeration cycle. The refrigerant flow path includes a high-temperature-side flow path and a low-temperature-side flow path. The high-temperature-side flo...