US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Jan. 20 for "Positive displacement machine, compressor, cooling apparatus, and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,362, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Positive displacement machine, compressor, cooling apparatus, and electronic equipment" was invented by Osamu Katsuda (Matsumoto, Japan), Kaname Nagatani (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hidemasa Yamakawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive displacement machine includes a housing including a tubular guide part in which a pressure chamber is provided, a slide member including a piston disposed in the guide part, the slide member sliding in a first direction, a coupling member coupled to the slide member and extending in a second direction intersecting th...