ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,981, issued on April 29, was assigned to HAWE Hydraulik SE (Aschheim, Germany).
"Hydraulic valve bank and mobile hydraulic system" was invented by Thomas Wechsel (Aschheim, Germany) and Sascha Rumenap (Aschheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic valve bank has at least two valve sections, a connection section, and a pressure channel for pressurizing the valve sections. The pressure channel connects the connection section to each valve section for pressurizing them. Each valve section has a spool, an electrohydraulic pilot control for actuating the spool and an upstream pressure compensator. The valve bank is a load-se...