ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,848, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SANDEN Corp. (Gunma, Japan).
"Electric compressor" was invented by Soichiro Hayashi (Gunma, Japan) and Takayoshi Shinohara (Gunma, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric compressor (1) includes an electric motor (5) including a stator core (51), a stator coil (52) formed by winding a conducting wire (60) around the stator core (51), and a rotor (53) attached to a rotating shaft (4), the electric motor (5) being for rotating the rotating shaft (4) via the rotor (53) through energization of the stator coil (52), a compression mechanism (3) that is driven by the rotating shaft (4) to com...