US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 8 for "Valve device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,773, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Valve device" was invented by Ryo Nomura (Kariya-city, Japan) and Takuya Hamada (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve device includes a shaft, a housing defining a flow passage and having a plurality of openings, and a first movable disk and a second movable disk being rotatable. The plurality of openings includes one-side openings and other-side openings. The housing includes a one-side partition wall partitioning the flow passage into a plurality of one-side flow passages and an other-side partition wall partitioning the flow passage int...