US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Dec. 16 for "Distributor module for a refrigerant circuit" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,153, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Distributor module for a refrigerant circuit" was invented by Denis Neher (Remchingen, Germany), Dana Nicgorski (Burlington, Mass.) and Thomas Holzer (Karlsbad, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributor module includes a housing having first and second refrigerant inlets and first and second refrigerant outlets for connection to a compressor and a condenser-evaporator device. A heat exchanger and a shutoff valve are arranged within the housing. The heat exchanger is connected to the refrigerant inlets and refrigerant outlets such that heat fro...