US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Nov. 3 for "Scroll compressor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,739, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Scroll compressor" was invented by Jeonghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Changeol Jo (Seoul, South Korea), Nara Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Kidae Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a scroll compressor. The scroll compressor may include a retainer block inserted into a block insertion groove of a non-orbiting scroll; and a block support member that is provided between the retainer block and a back pressure chamber assembly facing same and supports the retainer block toward the non-orbiting scroll. Accordingly, a bypass valv...