Floating valve stem seal
CA 2020190 C · Owner: Dana Corporation · Inventors: Binford, J. Dudley
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A valve stem seal assembly includes a rigid cylindrical shell and an annular resilient seal body supported within an endwall of the shell. The resilient seal body includes an exterior circumferential groove, and the endwall contains an aperture adapted for being received in the groove. The circumference of the aperture in the endwall is greater than the circumference of the bottom of the groove. A predetermined radial clearance is thereby created to provide that the resilient seal body remains concentric with a reciprocating valve stem, notwithstanding the fact that the stem may be eccentric relative to a valve guide to which the assembly is affixed.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed June 29, 1990 and granted August 22, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 29, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by June 29, 2012.
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