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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7900888 | Idle air control valve bearing improvement An idle air control valve (11) for a vehicle includes a stator assembly (12) and a rotor assembly (26) operatively associated with the stator assembly and mounted for rotation with respect to the stator assembly. A shaft (36) is restricte... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7290753 | Torque sensitive diaphragm valve This invention relates to pressure torque sanitary diaphragm valves and methods of using torque sensitive sanitary valves in the production of chemical and biological therapeutics to obtain procedural reproducibility in the production pharmaceutical compounds and in... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7090195 | Faucet assembly A faucet assembly includes a faucet body, a valve seat, a control shaft, a sealing member, and a control handle. Thus, the control handle is located under the faucet body to facilitate a user operating the control handle, so that the control handle is operated easil... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7004447 | Torque sensitive sanitary diaphragm valves for use in the pharmaceutical industry and methods related thereto This invention relates to pressure torque sanitary diaphragm valves and methods of using torque sensitive sanitary valves in the production of chemical and biological therapeutics to obtain procedural reproducibility in the production pharmaceutical compounds and in... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6059262 | Valve operator and method The valve operator of the present invention provides an apparatus and method for reducing torque necessary for opening and closing a valve, such as a quarter-turn rotary valve. In the preferred embodiment, an outer handle adaptor has inner curved tracks t... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5671903 | Heat treatment apparatus and valve device for use in the same The present invention relates to a heat treatment apparatus, specifically a valve device for use in an exhaust system of a low pressure heat treatment furnace, which comprises urging device for urging a valve body in a valve closing direction, and a drive... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5598973 | Fluid flow control device An improved flow control mechanism for use in an automatic continuous flow liquid dispensing device for dispensing liquid through a dispensing output onto a receiving surface of an article, is disclosed. The improved flow control mechanism comprises a nee... | 02/04/1997 |
| 4989830 | Motorized hydrant A rotatable valve stem in a fluid (e.g. water) hydrant controls the axial position of a plug relative to a valve seat to control fluid-flow through the valve seat. The valve stem is threaded into a bushing of the hydrant so that rotational movement of the... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4964613 | Gate valve In a gate valve, the valve member is connected to an operating stem which extends upwardly through an opening in the housing for connection to a hand wheel rotatably carried by a yoke through which a portion of the stem extends; rotation of the hand wheel... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4945941 | Means to reduce vibration in check valves and stop/check valves caused by pulsating low fluid flow In a check valve or stop/check valve comprising a housing having an inlet port, an outlet port and a valve seat between the two ports, a valve disc moves axially within a valve housing between open and closed positions, so that fluid flow applies pressure... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4915348 | Exhaust valve for blood pressure measuring apparatus An exhaust valve (10), particularly for a blood pressure measuring apparatus, comprising a valve seat (31) disposed along the course of an outlet channel in a valve housing (11) and oriented toward the pressure side of the valve. A valve body (25) having ... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4909271 | Ultrahigh purity gas valve with encapsulated bellows In an ultrahigh purity sealed gas valve of the Y-type having a bellows located in a stem bore, a second seat is provided so that the seat seal engages the second seat to seal off the space within the bonnet tube and the bellows from communicating with the... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4744391 | Flow control valve A flow control valve operable to bleed pressure from a pressurized source. The flow control valve includes an integral body, a bleed cap, a bleed valve element and a check valve assembly formed of a valve housing and a valve element.... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4732192 | Mechanism for water supply device A normal directional flowing type water supply device comprising: a connector in a form of short pipe with threads at both ends, a leading hole and a ball with a diameter slightly larger than that of the leading hole in it, to be connected to a water supp... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4634093 | Mounting means for valve disc A manually operated valve is usable as a shut-off and stop/check valve for handling refrigerant fluids in a system subject to reverse fluid flow. The valve comprises a hollow valve body having fluid inlet and outlet ports, a valve plate within the body wi... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4556193 | Motor-driven expansion valve A motor-driven expansion valve comprises a valve casing having a first passage, a second passage, and a communication passage having a valve seat and permitting the first passage to communicate with the second passage, a valve member provided within the v... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4488704 | Dual control actuator for valves A dual valve plug stem actuator device for plug or globe type valves is disclosed wherein said actuator mechanisms provide respectively coarse and fine independent movement of the valve plug stem. One actuating device controls the movement in the axial di... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4364543 | Valve device A valve device comprises a valve body having an inflow passage and an outflow passage, a valve seat fixed to the valve body at a position between the passages, a valve element for seating against and separating from the valve seat, a valve stem movable to... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4341370 | High pressure, three stage, balanced valve A New Three Stage 15,000 p.s.i. Balanced Valve, controlling fluid flows and pressures equally well in either direction, giving dependable leak proof operation with a very low control force. The first stage acts to gradually cut off the flow as a metering pin e... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4176674 | Faucet replacement valve stem assembly A replacement valve stem assembly for a faucet in the form of an internally and externally threaded sleeve extending through and secured by nuts to the faucet cap and a threaded valve stem engaging the internal threads of the sleeve and having a valve was... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4166607 | Bellows seal valve An improved bellows valve is disclosed having a relatively long bellows attached at one end to the valve control stem and at its other end to a recessed bellows mounting in the valve bonnet. The recessed attachment permits the use of a relatively long bel... | 09/04/1979 |
