ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,916, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Scroll compressor" was invented by Jehyeon Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Minho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor includes an orbiting scroll that is coupled to a rotating shaft in a casing and includes an orbiting end plate portion coupled to the rotating shaft and an orbiting wrap that has a spiral shape protruding from one surface of the orbiting end plate portion, a fixed scroll including a fixed wrap that is engaged with the orbiting wrap defines a compression chamber with t...