US Patent Issued to CARRIER JAPAN on March 31 for "Refrigeration cycle apparatus and leakage inspection method for refrigerant piping of refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,743, issued on March 31, was assigned to CARRIER JAPAN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Refrigeration cycle apparatus and leakage inspection method for refrigerant piping of refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Junichi Wakasugi (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazushi Takeuchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kaoru Matsushita (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a refrigeration cycle apparatus and a leakage inspection method for refrigerant piping of a refrigeration cycle apparatus, in both of which leakage inspection of joints of the refrigerant piping can be readily performed regardless of where the joints of the refrigerant piping are pr...