US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on July 8 for "Hollow poppet valve and method of manufacturing" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,188, issued on July 8, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Hollow poppet valve and method of manufacturing" was invented by Pierfrancesco De Giovanni (Lecce, Italy), Luigi Lia (Turin, Italy) and Marco Aimo Boot (Nole, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A poppet valve, in particular a hollow poppet valve, includes: a valve stem; a valve body having along a longitudinal axis, a first end with a neck portion to which the valve stem is coaxially arranged and having along a longitudinal axis a second end with a first outer contact face portion, the valve body including a cavity with a first opening towards the first e...