US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on July 7 for "Compressor and refrigeration apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,456, issued on July 7, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Compressor and refrigeration apparatus" was invented by Akira Mori (Osaka, Japan), Yasuhiro Murakami (Osaka, Japan), Yasuo Mizushima (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Endo (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes a casing having a tubular barrel, a fixation target member housed in the casing and fixed to the barrel, and a plurality of welds provided in a circumferential direction of the barrel. The welds connect the barrel and the fixation target member to each other. The fixation target member is a support configured to rotatably support...