US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on May 13 for "Expansion valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,048, issued on May 13, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Expansion valve" was invented by Kohei Fukudome (Tokyo), Toshinori Kanzaki (Tokyo), Keigo Shirafuji (Tokyo), Keichi Urushiyama (Tokyo), Takahiro Ejima (Tokyo), Kenshiro Furukawa (Tokyo), Akihiro Hashiguchi (Tokyo) and Daichi Kurihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expansion valve having a high valve opening adjustment accuracy includes: a valve housing which is provided with an inlet port allowing a refrigerant from a condenser to pass therethrough and an outlet port allowing a refrigerant toward an evaporator to pass therethrough; a valve body which i...