US Patent Issued to HORIBA STEC on July 28 for "Fluid control valve, fluid control device, and method for manufacturing orifice" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,946, issued on July 28, was assigned to HORIBA STEC Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Fluid control valve, fluid control device, and method for manufacturing orifice" was invented by Hideaki Miyamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Naoya Tasaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention achieves a larger flow rate of a fluid control valve without increasing a size of an orifice or an actuator. The fluid control valve includes an orifice having a valve seat surface and a valve body having a seating surface to be seated on the valve seat surface. The orifice has a plurality of inflow ports and a plurality of outflow ports that are o...