US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL on Sept. 30 for "Piston compressor and method in which such a piston compressor is used" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,039, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP (Wilrijk, Belgium) and VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (Brussels).

"Piston compressor and method in which such a piston compressor is used" was invented by Bjorn Verrelst (Wilrijk, Belgium) and Jarl Beckers (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston compressor, including at least one piston compressor element (3) that is provided with a housing (8) with a compression chamber (13) in which a piston (10) is arranged movably back and forth in an axial direction (X-X') between an upper dead point and a lower dead point by means of a drive shaft (5) dri...