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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
Applicant:
Vulcan Industrial Holdings, Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Zhiyue Xu, Cypress, TX (US);
Assignee:
Vulcan Industrial Holdings, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 25/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of a valve seat for a pumping assembly includes a body having a bore. In addition, the valve seat includes an embedded structure embedded in the body so as to define, at least partially, a strike face of the valve seat. The strike face extends circumferentially about the bore, and the embedded structure includes a gradient material structure having a first material, a second material spaced from the first material, and a compositional transition region between the first material and the second material.