US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE on Oct. 28 for "Valve arrangement, actuator arrangement and methods of detecting a first position therein" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,018, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Valve arrangement, actuator arrangement and methods of detecting a first position therein" was invented by Jens Folkmar Andersen (Fredericia, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve arrangement, an actuator arrangement and related methods, in which a first cleaning position is detected by mechanically transfer at least a portion of a movement of, or provided to, a first valve stem into a first movement of a second valve stem, such that a second valve member is moved towards a first conduit while the second valve member still sealingly engages a se...