US Patent Issued to SANDEN on Oct. 20 for "Electric compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,215, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SANDEN Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Electric compressor" was invented by Mikio Kobayashi (Gunma, Japan) and Kazuya Iizuka (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electric compressor configured so that the assembly workability and electric insulation of a power switching element can be improved while the heat dissipation (cooling performance) of the power switching element is ensured. In the electric compressor, a housing that houses an electric motor and a compression mechanism and an inverter housing portion that houses an inverter including a plurality of power switching element...