ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,359, issued on April 14, was assigned to Gardner Denver Deutschland GmbH (Bad Neustadt, Germany).
"Side channel compressor having a seal assembly" was invented by Evgenij Rjabchenko (Salz, Germany) and Manuela Gans (Mittelstreu, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side channel compressor for compressing a gas includes a housing and at least one impeller which is arranged in the housing and configured to be driven in rotation about a central axis. In addition, the side channel compressor includes at least one seal assembly arranged in the housing and including at least one sealing device configured to seal at least one gap betwe...