ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,824, issued on June 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Tokyo).
"Electric compressor" was invented by Noriaki Arashi (Tokyo) and Koshi Taruma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to improve design flexibility. An electric compressor includes: a motor configured to drive a scroll compression mechanism that compresses a refrigerant; an inverter configured to drive the motor; a housing filled with the refrigerant and accommodating the motor; and a lower case connected to the housing, which is aligned with the lower case in the axial direction, and accommodating the inverter. The housing ha...