US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Jan. 20 for "Air-conditioning apparatus and air-conditioning system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,499, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air-conditioning apparatus and air-conditioning system" was invented by Hiroki Maruyama (Tokyo), Yuji Motomura (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Okano (Tokyo) and Kazuyoshi Shinozaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit including a compressor configured to compress refrigerant, a relay unit connected to the outdoor unit, and an indoor unit connected to the relay unit. The compressor is driven to circulate the refrigerant between the outdoor unit, the relay unit, and the indoor unit. The air-conditioning apparatus includ...