US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Oct. 14 for "Vapor compression refrigeration cycle device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,574, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vapor compression refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Tsuneko Imagawa (Osaka, Japan), Yuki Yamaoka (Shiga, Japan) and Yasuaki Bando (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor compression refrigeration cycle device includes a main refrigerant circuit formed by sequentially connecting a compressor, a use-side heat exchanger, an intermediate heat exchanger, a first expansion device, and a heat source-side heat exchanger to one another through a refrigerant pipe; a bypass refrigerant circuit which branches off fr...