US Patent Issued to DANFOSS on Feb. 3 for "Control plate of a hydraulic machine and hydraulic machine" (Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,604, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Control plate of a hydraulic machine and hydraulic machine" was invented by Stig Kildegaard Andersen (Krusaa, Denmark), Poul Erik Hansen (Aabenraa, Denmark) and Olaf Worm (Tarp, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control plate (18) of a hydraulic machine is described, the control plate (18) includes a body (21), an arrangement of openings (22, 23), and a contact face (24). In order to operate a hydraulic machine with a low noise level the body (21) is made of a plastic material. The control plate may be used as port plate or as valve plate."

The patent was...