US Patent Issued to Purem on May 27 for "Butterfly valve assembly, in particular for a gas flow in a fuel cell system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,165, issued on May 27, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Butterfly valve assembly, in particular for a gas flow in a fuel cell system" was invented by Markus Lory (Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Grun (Altbach, Germany), Andreas Wacker (Plochingen, Germany) and Jochen Hammer (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A butterfly valve assembly includes a butterfly valve housing which provides a gas flow channel and a butterfly valve adjustable in the butterfly valve housing between a closed position and an open position for a passage of flow. The butterfly valve assembly has a disk-shaped butterfly valve eleme...