US Patent Issued to FUJIKOKI on June 17 for "Electrically operated valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,842, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJIKOKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrically operated valve" was invented by Tatsuya Yoshida (Tokyo) and Masaki Hiratsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electrically operated valve including a valve main body having a valve chamber communicating with an inflow passage for refrigerant and an outflow passage for refrigerant, a valve body moving forward and backward for a valve seat formed within the valve chamber and changing a refrigerant flow rate, an electric motor driving the valve body, a board controlling the electric motor, and a board storage portion including a case storing the boa...