US Patent Issued to ebm-papst Landshut on Jan. 13 for "Method for the failsafe and lean ignition of a gas-air mixture on a gas burner" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,375, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ebm-papst Landshut GmbH (Landshut, Germany).

"Method for the failsafe and lean ignition of a gas-air mixture on a gas burner" was invented by Jens Hermann (Landshut, Germany) and Bernhard Simon (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the failsafe and lean ignition of a fuel gas-air mixture on a gas burner (6), which is mixed in a mixing device (4) arranged upstream of the gas burner (6). A control valve (2) along the fuel gas flow path has an actuator (21) and a throttle element (23), moved by the actuator (21), for the closed-loop control of a flow rate of the fuel gas...