US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on Feb. 11 for "Scroll compressor including a valve plate having a surface pressure enhancement portion protruding toward an injection valve" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,960, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Scroll compressor including a valve plate having a surface pressure enhancement portion protruding toward an injection valve" was invented by Kwang Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Jae Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Hyun Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Soo Cheol Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor including a housing, a motor in the housing, an orbiting scroll, and a fixed scroll. An injection valve assembly is provided between the fixed scroll and the housing and further includes a cover plate, a valve pla...