US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 18 for "Rotary compressor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,083, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rotary compressor" was invented by Bumdong Sa (Seoul, South Korea), Seseok Seol (Seoul, South Korea) and Seokhwan Moon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary compressor is provided that may include a cylinder; a chamber eccentrically formed in the cylinder and accommodating a predetermined working fluid; a rotor rotatably received in the chamber and arranged so as to be concentric to the cylinder; first and second bearings disposed on upper and lower portions, respectively, of the cylinder so as to close the chamber, and which su...