US Patent Issued to CARRIER on May 12 for "Heat pump system and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,874, issued on May 12, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Heat pump system and control method thereof" was invented by Guangyu Shen (Shanghai), Guang Zhang (Shanghai) and Hui Zhai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The heat pump system comprises an indoor unit and an outdoor unit communicated through a refrigerant pipeline. The outdoor unit comprises a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a first throttling device, and a change-over valve. The indoor unit comprises a second heat exchanger. A heat storage unit is arranged on the refrigerant gas-phase pipeline between the indoor unit and the outdoor unit, th...