ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,439, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Scroll compressor" was invented by Kengo Komori (Tokyo) and Takuya Hotehama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism with a compression chamber. The compression chamber is a combination of a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, and is to compress working gas. The fixed scroll includes a main port, and a plurality of sub-ports. The main port is a port through which the working gas compressed in the compression chamber is to be discharged. The sub-ports are ports through which the working gas over-compressed in ...