US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RIKO on July 7 for "Support structure of electric compressor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,455, issued on July 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY Ltd. (Komaki, Japan).

"Support structure of electric compressor" was invented by Takuma Harada (Komaki, Japan), Takayoshi Yasuda (Komaki, Japan), Ruozhou Wang (Komaki, Japan), Hideto Nishinaka (Komaki, Japan) and Hideo Yanagino (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric compressor support structure on a vehicle body side member, including: an electric compressor including: an electric motor driving a scroll-type compression mechanism part to rotate; and a case housing the electric motor and the compression mechanism part arranged in series in output shaft dire...