US Patent Issued to OMB SALERI S.P.A.-SOCIETA' BENEFIT on Oct. 7 for "Multifunction valve with a thermal safety device" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,805, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OMB SALERI S.P.A.-SOCIETA' BENEFIT (Brescia, Italy).

"Multifunction valve with a thermal safety device" was invented by Nicola Degiacomi (Brescia, Italy), Renato Santulli (Brescia, Italy), Giacomo Morelli (Brescia, Italy) and Francesco Mondinelli (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multifunction valve for a tank containing high-pressure hydrogen of an automotive fuel cell system is provided. The multifunction valve has a thermal safety device, an auxiliary device adapted to act mechanically on a bulb of the thermal safety device to break the bulb, and a trigger group provided with a ...