US Patent Issued to HITACHI on April 7 for "Railway vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,972, issued on April 7, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Railway vehicle" was invented by Hiromu Ogata (Tokyo), Takahisa Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Tadashi Fujii (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a railway vehicle capable of constructing a highly reliable seal for a side hinged door with a small number of manufacturing steps. The railway vehicle includes: a side structure 20; an opening portion 10 provided in the side structure 20; a side hinged door 12 configured to close the opening portion 10; a door pillar 22 provided on a vehicle interior side of a peripheral edge portion of the opening portion 10; a retai...