US Patent Issued to Enerpac Tool Group on May 5 for "Valves for controlling flow of pressurized fluid to a tool" (Wisconsin, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,485, issued on May 5, was assigned to Enerpac Tool Group Corp. (Milwaukee).

"Valves for controlling flow of pressurized fluid to a tool" was invented by Nathaniel Olbrich (Shorewood, Wis.), Eric D. Norquist (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Arnold Decker (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve is for controlling flow of a pressurized fluid to a tool. The valve has a manifold, a poppet biased into an unseated position in which the pressurized fluid may flow from the manifold via a tank outlet, a piston configured to move the poppet into a seated position when the pressurized fluid flows into the manifold via the manifold inlet at a...