US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES on Dec. 2 for "Ambient temperature barocaloric refrigerating machine based on barocaloric effect" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,013, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Liaoning, China).

"Ambient temperature barocaloric refrigerating machine based on barocaloric effect" was invented by Bing Li (Liaoning, China), Ruiqi Song (Liaoning, China) and Zhidong Zhang (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambient temperature barocaloric refrigerating machine has a high-precision high-pressure electric injection pump, a barocaloric element, heat exchange fluid, a cold end heat exchanger and a hot end heat exchanger. The phenomena of heat release after pressurization and heat absorption after depressuriz...