US Patent Issued to DENSO on July 28 for "Refrigeration cycle device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,727, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Toru Okamura (Kariya-city, Japan), Atsushi Yamada (Kariya-city, Japan), Yoshiki Katoh (Kariya-city, Japan) and Hiroaki Kawano (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration cycle device includes a flow path switching unit configured to determine whether an outside-air heat absorption unit is required to be defrosted. The flow path switching unit is further configured to: cause a heat medium to circulate separately between a first circulation circuit configured to cause the heat medium to circulate...