ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,918, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Scroll compressor" was invented by Sangbaek Park (Seoul, South Korea), Nayoung Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Cheolhwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor including a casing forming the exterior; a driving unit installed in the casing and generates a drive power; a rotary shaft installed in the driving unit to be rotatable; a compression portion including an orbiting scroll installed on the rotary shaft to be capable of orbiting, and a fixed scroll which is coupled to be engaged with the orbiting scroll so as to f...