US Patent Issued to KOGANEI on June 23 for "Control valve" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,097, issued on June 23, was assigned to KOGANEI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control valve" was invented by Ryoji Kanai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control valve (flow-rate regulator valve (16)) includes: a valve housing (20) including a flow channel block (21) with a flow channel in which a fluid flows; a valve assembly (50) mounted on the valve housing (20) to be movable in a first direction and provided with a valve body (31) configured to change the degree of the communication opening of the flow channel; and an operation shaft (51a) including a shaft section (53) inserted into an insertion hole (52) formed in the valve housing (2...