US Patent Issued to DANFOSS on March 31 for "Active balancing valve for a refrigeration and/or air-conditioning application" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,646, issued on March 31, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Active balancing valve for a refrigeration and/or air-conditioning application" was invented by Sigurd Larsen (Krusa, Denmark), Jens Boesen Pawlik (Broager, Denmark) and Clemens Fock (Nordborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active balancing valve for a refrigeration and/or air-conditioning application having a valve housing with an inlet orifice, an outlet orifice and a mounting portion, a main valve element with a main pressure balance orifice and a control element at least partially defining a pressure balance passage. Each element is slidable i...