ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,181, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HORIBA STEC Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Fluid control valve and fluid control apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Shakudo (Irvine, Calif.), Yuki Hida (Irvine, Calif.) and Shigeyuki Hayashi (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention enables fluid control with a smaller current or voltage by reducing a magnetic resistance of a magnetic path including the valve body. The present invention includes: a flow path block formed with an internal flow path; an orifice fixed to the flow path block and having a valve seat surface; a valve body having a seating surface seated on the va...