ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,157, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).
"Valve device" was invented by Shunsuke Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Fukushima (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve device includes: a main spool including supply passages and a supply-side land portion; and a valve block including an outflow passage, in which the supply passage allows a supply port to communicate with the outflow passage in a process of the main spool moving from a neutral position toward one stroke end in an axial direction, and the supply passage allows a supply port to communicate with the outflow passage in a process of the main spoo...