US Patent Issued to DENSO on Oct. 20 for "Valve device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,459, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Valve device" was invented by Yoshitada Aono (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve device includes a first valve element and a second valve element. The first valve element has a first sliding surface which is opposed to the second valve element. The second valve element has a second sliding surface which is opposed to the first valve element. The first sliding surface and the second sliding surface are configured to slide relative to each other to change an opening degree of an opening between a first flow passage and a second flow passag...