US Patent Issued to AISAN KOGYO on Dec. 23 for "Valve device with heater" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,098, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to AISAN KOGYO K.K. (Japan).

"Valve device with heater" was invented by Takafumi Uratsuka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve device that includes a housing; an inlet passage disposed inside the housing and into which a fluid is introduced; a first discharging unit disposed at a downstream end of the inlet passage; an outlet passage disposed inside the housing, communicating with the first discharging unit, extending in a direction different from the inlet passage, and configured to discharge the fluid outside; a communication chamber disposed between the first discharging unit a...