US Patent Issued to BURCKHARDT COMPRESSION on May 5 for "Valve for a piston compressor, and method for operating such a valve" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,400, issued on May 5, was assigned to BURCKHARDT COMPRESSION AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Valve for a piston compressor, and method for operating such a valve" was invented by Reiner Schulz (Lottstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve for a reciprocating compressor having a valve seat with a plurality of flow channels which open into an end face of the valve seat; a valve plate having a planar sealing surface which is designed to control the flow channels of the valve seat and has passage openings which are spatially offset relative to the flow channels of the valve seat, at least one projection being arranged on the ...