US Patent Issued to DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS on June 23 for "Fluid rotary machine with an encoder module" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,985, issued on June 23, was assigned to DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS APS (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Fluid rotary machine with an encoder module" was invented by Charles Anthony Bates (Sonderborg, Denmark), Jay Lucas (Plymouth, Minn.) and Tom Maagaard (Nordborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid rotary machine (100, 200) includes a first movement chain with a motor (101, 201) including a motor shaft (102, 202) rotationally coupled to a valve element (103, 203), for example a disc valve element (103) or a spool valve element (203), and a motor control unit configured to control rotational movement of the motor shaft (102, 202). The ...