US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on March 3 for "Switching valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,938, issued on March 3, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Switching valve" was invented by Noriyuki Ogawa (Tokyo), Hideki Higashidozono (Tokyo), Naoki Murata (Tokyo), Takayuki Kondo (Tokyo), Ryota Urakawa (Tokyo) and Fuminobu Enokijima (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a switching valve having a small contact resistance when a valve body moves along a seating surface of a housing. In a switching valve which includes a valve body, coming into contact with a seating surface of a housing having a plurality of ports and selectively communicating at least two ports of the plurality of ports, and app...