ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,482, issued on May 5, was assigned to Fujikin Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Valve" was invented by Keisuke Ishibashi (Osaka, Japan), Akihiro Harada (Osaka, Japan), Tadayuki Yakushijin (Osaka, Japan), Yusei Horikawa (Osaka, Japan), Souta Hachiman (Osaka, Japan), Toshiyuki Inada (Osaka, Japan) and Ryo Sugimura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a valve capable of suppressing unintended valve opening/closing by providing a play state during a manual operation and also enabling smooth transition from the play state to a rotation state. In the valve, a tip of another end portion of the stem and the engagement hole o...