US Patent Issued to HANON SYSTEMS on May 27 for "Reinforced rotary valve seal assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,187, issued on May 27, was assigned to HANON SYSTEMS (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Reinforced rotary valve seal assembly" was invented by Emma Michelle Grissom (Howell, Mich.), Jichul Lee (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Edward William Sanders III (Monroe, Mich.) and Jason Dale Perkins (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary valve includes a valve body including an opening formed therein, a rotary component received within the opening of the valve body with the rotary component configured to rotate relative to the valve body about an axis of rotation thereof, and a sealing assembly including a hard sealing structure and a soft se...