US Patent Issued to FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING on June 30 for "Retainer for filters, and leaf disc filter element" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,798, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJI FILTER MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Retainer for filters, and leaf disc filter element" was invented by Toshiaki Takano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The retainer includes a first metal plate member 10A or 40A in which flow-path forming members having a predetermined curved shape or a linear shape are arranged on the same plane in parallel to each other at a predetermined interval to form a donut shape as a hole, and a second metal plate member 10B or 40B having a configuration equivalent to that of the first metal plate member, wherein crossings of the flow-path forming member...