US Patent Issued on June 2 for "Multifunctional softening valve" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,526, issued on June 2.

"Multifunctional softening valve" was invented by Kefeng Zhang (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a multifunctional softening valve. The valve includes a valve body, a movable valve plate, a fixed valve plate and a driving device. Wherein the valve body defines a water inlet, a water outlet, a drainage port, a water passing port, and a regenerant inlet. The valve body includes an inner chamber and an outer chamber. The inner chamber includes a central drainage cavity, a working cavity, a backwashing cavity, a regeneration cavity, a blind cavity, a forward washing cavity and ...