US Patent Issued to EAGLE INDUSTRY on Sept. 1 for "Valve and valve assembly method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,673, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to EAGLE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Valve and valve assembly method" was invented by Kenta Furukawa (Tokyo), Naoki Nishimura (Tokyo) and Yu Deguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve includes: a casing; a valve body that is operable inside the casing; a biasing member that biases the valve body; and a retainer that holds the biasing member, wherein the retainer is provided with a flange portion caulked and fixed to the casing by a caulking end provided at one axial end of the casing, and wherein an elastic member is sandwiched between the flange portion and the casing to be axially ela...