US Patent Issued to CKD on Oct. 27 for "Toggle-type manual valve and valve unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,758, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CKD Corp. (Komaki, Japan).

"Toggle-type manual valve and valve unit" was invented by Yutaka Inoue (Komaki, Japan) and Tatsuhito Aoyama (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve stem is disposed so as to be capable of moving linearly reciprocally in a case connected to a valve section for opening and closing a flow channel. The valve stem is urged toward the valve section by a spring. A manual lever is rotatably supported on the upper end of the valve stem. The valve stem is divided into a first rod part connected to the manual lever and a second rod part positioned on the valve sect...