US Patent Issued to Danfoss on April 14 for "Refrigerant compressor including grooved auxiliary bearing interface" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,373, issued on April 14, was assigned to Danfoss A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Refrigerant compressor including grooved auxiliary bearing interface" was invented by Jin Yan (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Karthik Krishna (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerant compressor may include an auxiliary bearing arranged about a shaft. An interface of the auxiliary bearing and the shaft includes at least one groove."

The patent was filed on Jan. 2, 2024, under Application No. 18/401,825.

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