US Patent Issued to TRANE INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 18 for "Scroll compressor with intermediate injection" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,083, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC. (Davidson, N.C.).

"Scroll compressor with intermediate injection" was invented by Scott J. Smerud (La Crosse, Wis.) and Derrick Lepak (Onalaska, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor includes a compressor housing containing an orbiting scroll member, a non-orbiting scroll member, bands disposed between the non-orbiting scroll member and the compressor housing, a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, and one or more intermediate injection chamber defined by the bands. The non-orbiting scroll member includes one or more intermediate injection ports fluid...