ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,851, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Refrigeration-type chiller" was invented by Makoto Adachi (Tsukubamirai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration-type chiller includes a coolant circuit that supplies a coolant to a load, a refrigeration circuit that adjusts the temperature of the coolant, and a control unit that controls the chiller as a whole. The control unit includes a temperature setting unit that sets, as an adjustment target temperature, the temperature of the coolant for causing the load to be at a target temperature, a time setting unit that sets an adjustment time during whic...