ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,678, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Valve device with floating valve core" was invented by Jing Cheng (Shanghai), Li Liu (Shanghai) and Wei Xia (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a valve device having a housing and a valve core. The housing internally is provided with at least two fluid passages and sealing members located at a port of each fluid passage. The valve core is disposed in the housing and comprises at least one closing wall. The valve core is configured to be capable of rotating around an axis in a first direction in the housing to enable ...