US Patent Issued to DANFOSS on Oct. 7 for "Pilot controlled solenoid valve" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,812, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).

"Pilot controlled solenoid valve" was invented by Soren Stottrup Kristensen (Horsens, Denmark) and Varun Venugopalan Potti (Nordborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pilot controlled solenoid valve (1) includes a housing (2) having an inlet (3) and an outlet (4), a valve seat (5) between inlet (3) and outlet (4), a valve element (6) cooperating with the valve seat (5), and a solenoid arrangement (7) having a coil (8) and a moveable armature (9), wherein the valve element (6) is arranged between an inlet chamber (11) connected to the inlet (3) and a pilot ...