US Patent Issued to Heaten AS on Sept. 22 for "Piston compressor valve arrangement and method of use" (German, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,448, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Heaten AS (Kristiansand S, Norway).

"Piston compressor valve arrangement and method of use" was invented by Harald Nes Risla (Lillesand, Norway), Christian Schluter (Iserlohn, Germany) and Alexander Klaus Zaiss (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve arrangement is for a piston compressor, the valve arrangement having: a suction valve section; and a discharge valve section; wherein the suction valve section and discharge valve section together form a working chamber head section, and the suction valve section has a frustopyramidal form."

The patent was filed on Jan. 31, 20...