US Patent Issued to SANDEN on Aug. 11 for "Scroll compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,126, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SANDEN Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Scroll compressor" was invented by Hiroki Mashiyama (Gunma, Japan), Yuta Tanaka (Gunma, Japan), Taizo Sato (Gunma, Japan), Kyoshiro Nishiyama (Gunma, Japan), Hitoshi Akuzawa (Gunma, Japan), Misako Kaburagi (Gunma, Japan) and Eiichi Oshio (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a scroll compressor with durability improved by effectively reducing strong contact between a wrap of a movable scroll and an end plate of a fixed scroll without impairing a function. A compression chamber 34 formed between wraps 24, 32 of a fixed scroll 21 and a movable scro...