US Patent Issued to DAIKIN EUROPE on Sept. 1 for "Refrigeration device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,787, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DAIKIN EUROPE N.V. (Ostend, Belgium).

"Refrigeration device" was invented by Hideo Chikami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration device configured to be used in a heating mode and a cooling mode, comprising a compressor (1), a plurality of utilization side heat exchangers, an expansion mechanism (4) and a heat source side heat exchanger (5) fluidly connected in series to constitute a refrigeration circuit. The refrigeration device also comprises a first refrigerant pipe (6), which extends from the compressor (1) to a first utilization side heat exchanger (2) of the plural...