US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on March 18 for "Receiver drier and economizer integration for vapor injection system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,287, issued on March 18, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Receiver drier and economizer integration for vapor injection system" was invented by Evangelos Papoulis (Northville, Mich.), Gary Komora (Westland, Mich.), Nicos Agathocleous (Canton, Mich.), Arulkumar Rajenderan (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Jason Ryu (Belleville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated receiver drier and economizer (RDE) includes a tank having a hollow interior receiving a first flow of a refrigerant therein, the first flow of the refrigerant including a liquid phase of the refrigerant accumulating within a liquid containin...