US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on June 3 for "Scroll compressor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,356, issued on June 3, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Scroll compressor" was invented by Jong Hyun Jeon (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Jae Lee (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 capable of improving the performance and efficiency of the compressor by increasing the amount of refrigerant discharged from a compression chamber by introducing not only refrigerant at suction pressure but also refrigerant at an intermediate pressure to the compression chamber of the scroll compressor, capable of freel...