US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on July 1 for "Solenoid valve for a slip-controlled motor-vehicle brake system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,350, issued on July 1, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Solenoid valve for a slip-controlled motor-vehicle brake system" was invented by Marc Lenz (Neu-Anspach, Germany), Daniel Cvetanovic (Rodgau, Germany), Christian Courth (Frankfurt, Germany), Heiko Gensert (Eppstein, Germany) and Holger Kollmann (Rodgau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid valve has a valve plunger which is guided in a passage bore of a valve housing. The valve plunger with its valve closing element is held in a basic position by a restoring spring. The basic position opens up a valve passage in a valve s...