US Patent Issued to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES on June 16 for "Use of composition as refrigerant, and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,337, issued on June 16, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Use of composition as refrigerant, and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Yuka Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Tomoyuki Gotou (Osaka, Japan), Yuuko Itou (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Usui (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Yoshimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure increase in a compressor is suppressed. Disclosed is a method that uses a composition as a refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit, in which the composition includes one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of ethylene-based fluoroolefins, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, ...