US Patent Issued to DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS, DANFOSS on March 17 for "Scroll compressor including a discharge check valve assembly with metal-to-metal sealing surfaces" (French, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,953, issued on March 17, was assigned to DANFOSS COMMERCIAL COMPRESSORS (Trevoux, France) and DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Scroll compressor including a discharge check valve assembly with metal-to-metal sealing surfaces" was invented by Patrice Bonnefoi (Nordborg, Denmark), Jean-Jacques Laissus (Reyrieux, France), Gabriel Streda (Nordborg, Denmark), Yves Rosson (Villars les Dombes, France), Julien Lavy (Beligneux, France) and Sebastien Sababady (Villefranche-sur-Saone, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor includes a compressor shell (2) having a discharge outlet (4), and a discharge check valve assembly (1...