ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,861, issued on July 28, was assigned to NIDEC GLOBAL APPLICANCE BRASIL LTDA. (Joinville, Brazil).
"Alternative compressor head arrangement" was invented by Tadeu Tonheiro Rodrigues (Joinville, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alternative compressor head arrangement is provided. The alternative compressor head arrangement is configured to eliminate the occurrence of friction wear in the bending areas of the operation valves. For this, an interface blade arranged between the valve blade and the stop blade is used, so that the interface between the static end of the operation valve of the valve blade and the valve stop of the st...