Patent 11255399 was granted and assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen on February, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A damping valve includes a damping valve body with an annular groove which has a base and which is limited by an inner valve seat surface and an outer valve seat surface for at least one valve disk. The base of the annular groove has a maximum distance from the valve seat surface along a circumferential area and has a minimum axial distance from the valve seat surface in another circumferential area.