US Patent Issued to SIME on June 10 for "Method and a device for changing the compression ratio of a reciprocating compressor" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,144, issued on June 10, was assigned to SIME S.R.L. (Rosignano, Italy).

"Method and a device for changing the compression ratio of a reciprocating compressor" was invented by Stefano Favilli (Rosignano Marittimo, Italy) and Stefano Meucci (Rosignano Solvay, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method are used for changing the compression ratio of a reciprocating compressor. The device includes compression chambers pneumatically connected between an inlet and an outlet port. Communication valves change the number of compression steps and are arranged to switch from a first to a second open/closed state combination, or vic...