ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,796, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS LTD. (Tokyo).
"Scroll compressor" was invented by Ryota Tanahashi (Tokyo), Goshi Iketaka (Tokyo), Akinori Yoshioka (Tokyo) and Takayuki Kuwahara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a scroll compressor including: a motor configured to revolve an orbiting scroll with respect to a fixed scroll; a rotary shaft rotated about an axis by the motor; a bearing part configured to support the rotary shaft; and a housing. The housing has a partition wall part-partitioning the inner space into a first space and a second space, the motor being arrang...