Patents by Inventor John P. Latusek

John P. Latusek has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Metering valve
    Patent number: 5488969
    Abstract: A method and a metering valve for metering a fluid by incrementally adjusting a position of a flow control element that directly varies a flow area of a flow port opening in a valve housing. The flow control element is adjustably mounted with respect to the valve housing. The metering valve maintains an approximately constant percentage variation of a mass flow rate of a fluid with respect to the current total flow rate flowing through the flow port opening, for each incremental adjustment of the flow control element position, throughout the metering range of the metering valve yielding an exponentially varying mass flow rate as a result of linearly varying the flow control element position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Gas Research Institute
    Inventors: Steven R. King, James J. Cole, Kennon H. Guglielmo, John P. Latusek