Patent 9581256 was granted and assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand on February, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A check valve with a housing and a first flapper rotatable about an axis between open and closed positions includes a first spring mechanism operatively positioned between a static component and the first flapper. When the first flapper is in the closed position there is a distance between the first spring mechanism and either the static component or the first flapper.