ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,696, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Takanori Koike (Tokyo), Kazuyoshi Shinozaki (Tokyo) and Kosuke Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a heat source side unit, a relay unit, and a plurality of load side units, the heat source side unit and the relay unit are connected by using a low-pressure pipe and a high-pressure pipe, and the relay unit and each of the plurality of load side units are connected by using a corresponding liquid branch pipe and a corresponding gas branch pipe. The heat source side ...