ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,195, issued on June 10, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).
"Control valve" was invented by Lixin Wang (Zhejiang, China), Long Lin (Zhejiang, China) and Yun Wang (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control valve is provided, which comprises a valve body and a valve element. The valve element can be driven to rotate, the valve element is provided with an external communicating cavity and a first cavity, and the valve element comprises a first partition plate, a first valve element shaft and a first reinforcing rib; the first reinforcing rib comprises a first end portion, a se...