US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE on Oct. 20 for "Centrifugal separator and protective member" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,525, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Centrifugal separator and protective member" was invented by Johan Edwall (Nykoping, Sweden) and Lars Klein (Norsborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal separator includes a separator bowl delimiting therein a separation space and being configured to rotate about a rotational axis and nozzle members arranged peripherally at the separator bowl. Each nozzle member forms a nozzle outlet providing a passage from the separation space to a space outside the separator bowl. The centrifugal separator includes a protective member arranged downst...