US Patent Issued to Hitachi Astemo on June 30 for "Support structure for fuel injection valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,103, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Support structure for fuel injection valve" was invented by Atsushi Okamoto (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takaya Fukunaga (Hitachinaka, Japan), Kazuki Noda (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takumi Suzuki (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a support structure for a fuel injection valve (I), a snap protrusion (21) snap-engaged with an outer peripheral surface of a fuel introduction cylinder part (4) accepted in a notch (19) is formed on an inner side surface of the notch (19) of the base plate (15). A snap engagement force of the snap protrusion (21) with ...