ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,971,201, issued on April 30, was assigned to Toshiba Carrier Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Compressor and refrigeration cycle device" was invented by Takuya Hirayama (Fuji, Japan) and Shogo Shida (Fuji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor of an embodiment includes three suction pipes. A first center of a first suction pipe, a second center of a second suction pipe, and a third center of a third suction pipe are positioned at vertices of a triangle. A first distance between the first center and a center of a compressor main body is smaller than a second distance between the second center and the center of the compressor main body ...