ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,575, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HORIBA STEC Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Fluid control valve and fluid control device" was invented by Noriaki Kondo (Kyoto, Japan), Hideaki Miyamoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Naoya Tasaka (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid control valve improves position stability of a displacement expanding mechanism, and includes an actuator for driving the valve body, and the displacement expanding mechanism interposed between the valve body and the actuator to expand displacement of the actuator and transmit the displacement to the valve body. The displacement expanding mechanism includes an input ...