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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7290587 | Die thermal management through coolant flow control A system and method for thermal management of a die is disclosed wherein cooling of the die is controlled by controlling coolant flow to switch between laminar flow and turbulent flow as desired. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 6357481 | Flow control valve for cooling tower A lightweight flow control valve for use in cooling towers is provided. The valve includes a lightweight, thin-walled valve body having a flow bore, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The outlet port is disposed in a substantially perpendicular relationsh... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6308931 | Flow control valve for cooling tower A lightweight flow control valve for use in cooling towers is provided. The valve includes a lightweight, thin-walled valve body having a flow bore, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The outlet port is disposed in a substantially perpendicular relationsh... | 10/30/2001 |
| 5417404 | Geared ball valve This invention relates to ball valves. One problem with conventional ball valves is that opening and closing the valve causes the valve seal to scrape across the valve seat. This reduces the life of the seal. This scraping problem can be eliminated by ret... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5374030 | Valve actuating mechanism An improved valve plug actuator is provided which is substantially impervious to environmental contamination and which provides greater axial transfer of seating force to an associated valve plug. The actuator uses an indexing race formed in an indexing s... | 12/20/1994 |
| 4927113 | Valve control mechanism Disclosed is a valve operator which includes a spindle screwed into a sleeve that is seated in a cavity within the housing of the valve operator. The sleeve has a pair of openings therein and the housing has a pair of grooves in its walls. A pair of rolle... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4674533 | Remotely controllable mixing system A remotely controllable mixing system (210) in which a plurality of mixing assemblies (10a-10e) are arranged in an annular configuration, and wherein each assembly (10) employs a central chamber (16) and two outer, upper and lower, chambers (12, 14). Valv... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4657044 | Dual motion valve with single motion input A dual motion valve (A) includes two dual motion valve assemblies (10, 12) having a rotary input which allows the benefits of applying both rotary and axial motion to a rotary sealing element (24) having a plurality of ports (43). The motion of the rotary... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4328949 | Cock for controlling the heating system of a motor vehicle A cock for controlling the heating system of a motor vehicle has a flat valve member controlled by a lever. Under operating conditions said valve member is permanently biased by the pressure of the heating liquid against a sealing ring provided in the sea... | 05/11/1982 |