US Patent Issued to Honda Foundry on March 3 for "Casting mold" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,877, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Foundry Co. Ltd. (Saltama, Japan).

"Casting mold" was invented by Naohisa Motohashi (Kawagoe, Japan) and Tomoichiro Kariya (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a casting mold (20), a main runner (26) and branch runners (27) are disposed in a Y-shape, the branch runners (27) are disposed in a V-shape, and when a portion where molten metal that has passed through the main runner (26) hits and divides into the branch runners (27) is referred to as a V-shaped portion (29), a void (31) extending across a valley bottom of the V-shaped portion (29) and connecting inlets of the branc...