US Patent Issued to EBARA on April 7 for "Method of starting and stopping pump apparatuses coupled in series" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,799, issued on April 7, was assigned to EBARA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of starting and stopping pump apparatuses coupled in series" was invented by Shuichiro Honda (Tokyo), Tetsuji Kasatani (Tokyo), Hayato Ikeda (Tokyo), Kei Wataji (Tokyo), Hyuga Kikuchi (Tokyo) and Mitsutaka Iwami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of starting a submersible pump used for transferring liquefied gas. The method includes starting a submersible pump (1A) disposed in a suction container (2A) of a pump apparatus (100A) to deliver liquefied gas to a suction container (2B) of a pump apparatus (100B) through a flow-path switching device (5A) in the...