US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge on Sept. 23 for "Piston compressor having eccentric lifting element" (Hungarian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,943, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Piston compressor having eccentric lifting element" was invented by Kornel Kantor (Kecskemet, Hungary), Peter Kovacsik (Budapest, Hungary), Zoltan Laszlo Vass (Kecskemet, Hungary) and Yves Compera (Garching bei Munchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston compressor has a piston guided in a compressor cylinder, wherein the piston and the compressor cylinder form a compressor chamber for compressing a fluid. A shaft is provided that rotates around its axis. A lifting element is arranged eccentrically to the axis of the shaft a...