ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,061, issued on March 25, was assigned to PIERBURG GMBH (Neuss, Germany).
"Blow-off valve" was invented by Martin Lenk (Neuss, Germany), Michael Thiery (Kaarst, Germany) and Tanner Cavdar (Korschenbroich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overrun-air recirculation valve includes a flow housing having a flow channel, a valve seat, an actuator, an actuating member movable via the actuator, and a control body fastened to the actuating member. The control body has a lateral outer surface having a bearing edge which is placeable onto and liftable off of the valve seat, a flow-on surface arranged on an axial side facing away from t...