US Patent Issued to FUJIKURA COMPOSITES, FUJIKIN on June 23 for "Actuator, open/close valve mechanism, and fluid control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,096, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIKURA COMPOSITES INC. (Tokyo) and FUJIKIN Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Actuator, open/close valve mechanism, and fluid control device" was invented by Shono Ochibe (Saitama, Japan), Shouichi Nagashima (Saitama, Japan), Tomohiro Nakata (Osaka, Japan) and Nobuo Nakamura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes a casing, a shaft body disposed inside the casing, and formed with a long hole LH and multiple exhaust holes EH; multiple assemblies arranged to correspond to the multiple exhaust holes EH, respectively, each assembly having a partition body and a piston body, and formi...