US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on April 14 for "Compressor and refrigeration cycle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,350, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Compressor and refrigeration cycle apparatus" was invented by Akikazu Izumi (Tokyo) and Naohisa Gomae (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor includes: a hermetically sealed container; an electric motor; a low-stage compression mechanism unit; a high-stage compression mechanism unit; and an intermediate partition plate. The high-stage compression mechanism unit includes a high-stage cylinder block, a high-stage rolling piston, a high-stage vane configured to partition, along with the high-stage rolling piston, an internal space of the high-stage ...