US Patent Issued to SAMSON on March 4 for "Preventing control-induced oscillations of the position of a valve member in a valve with pneumatic actuator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,565, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSON AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Preventing control-induced oscillations of the position of a valve member in a valve with pneumatic actuator" was invented by Andreas Fiebiger (Taunusstein, Germany) and Fausto Crespo Vidal (Langenselbold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preventing control-induced oscillations in a valve with a pneumatic actuator and position control with an integrating component, including the following steps: Checking whether oscillations of the valve member occur by counting the zero crossings or extreme values of the control difference. If oscilla...