US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on Oct. 20 for "Fluid-controlling valve assembly" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,912, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Fluid-controlling valve assembly" was invented by In Jae Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Yong Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jae Chun Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid-controlling valve assembly according to an embodiment includes a housing and a rotor installed inside the housing to be rotatable in accordance with air-conditioning modes, and the rotor is stacked in two stages along the axial direction such that fluid channels enabling fluid to flow may be formed in each of the first stage and the second stage."

The patent...