US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 9 for "Accumulator and a heat pump system with the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,851, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Accumulator and a heat pump system with the same" was invented by Yong Woong Cha (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jungha Park (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Seong-Bin Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accumulator includes a body having an upper body and a lower body. The upper body and lower body are coupled with each other to have a chamber in the body. The accumulator includes: a refrigerant inlet port disposed on the upper body and allowing a mixed refrigerant of a liquid refrigerant and a gas...