US Patent Issued to CARRIER on March 31 for "Reduction of power consumption in transport refrigeration unit" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,744, issued on March 31, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Reduction of power consumption in transport refrigeration unit" was invented by Suzankumar Danaiah Gongate (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling power to a condenser fan of a transport refrigeration unit (TRU) includes disconnecting power to the condenser fan; detecting a fan voltage produced by back emf of the condenser fan; obtaining an input volume flow rate corresponding to airflow over a condenser in response to the fan voltage; comparing the input volume flow rate to a lower limit volume flow rate; disconnect...