US Patent Issued to Carrier Japan on Feb. 24 for "Air conditioner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,348, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Carrier Japan Corp. (Tokyo).

"Air conditioner" was invented by Atsushi Baba (Fuji, Japan), Masaaki Sato (Fuji, Japan), Hiroichi Yamaguchi (Fuji, Japan), Yukio Kiguchi (Fuji, Japan), Kohei Maruko (Fuji, Japan) and Shohei Arita (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, the air conditioner comprises an outdoor unit, an indoor unit, a refrigerant cutoff unit, an airtight state detection unit, a notification unit, and a control unit. The control unit determines a refrigerant cutoff condition for whether or not to urge a flow of the refrigerant flowing into and from the...