US Patent Issued to MIKUNI on July 22 for "Fluid control valve unit and valve timing changing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,181, issued on July 22, was assigned to MIKUNI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluid control valve unit and valve timing changing device" was invented by Kouji Sugano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid control valve unit includes: a fluid control valve including a sleeve that defines an axis and a spool slidably disposed in the sleeve; a passage member including an inner peripheral surface to which the sleeve is fitted, passages, an annular receiving part facing one end of the sleeve, an opening adjacent to the annular receiving part, and an annular groove formed adjacent to the other end of the sleeve and recessed from the inne...