US Patent Issued to Parker-Hannifin on Jan. 13 for "Wheel valve assembly for tire inflation/deflation system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,029, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Parker-Hannifin Corp. (Cleveland).

"Wheel valve assembly for tire inflation/deflation system" was invented by Shahed M. Ahmed (Portage, Mich.), Patrick D. O'Connell (Paw Paw, Mich.), Brian A. Reynolds (Richland, Mich.), William B. McCurdy Jr. (Galesburg, Mich.) and Yufeng Qi (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly for a tire inflation/deflation system includes a body having a control port and a tire port, and a valve member for fluidly connecting or disconnecting the control port with the tire port. In one embodiment, the valve includes a fluid-operated damper having a dampe...