ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,695, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Kohei Kasai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes; an air heat exchanger; a first expansion valve; a water heat exchanger; a flow passage switching device provided to a discharge part of a compressor; an injection pipe branched from a branch portion of a refrigerant pipe connecting the water heat exchanger with the first expansion valve, and is connected to an injection port of the compressor; a second expansion valve provided to the injection pipe; and an internal heat ex...