ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,493, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Device for compressing a gaseous fluid and method for operating the device" was invented by Ayhan Ayar (Cologne, Germany), Gerd Vondahlen (Gangelt, Germany) and Alex Rybski (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for compressing a gaseous fluid, in particular a refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit, specifically of an air-conditioning system of a motor vehicle. The device has a housing, a compression mechanism for compressing the gaseous fluid, and an electric motor for driving the compression mechanism. The housing is formed with a suctio...