US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 17 for "Dry space creation apparatus and dry space creation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,142, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Dry space creation apparatus and dry space creation method" was invented by Satonori Iura (Saitama, Japan), Masaki Kunigami (Saitama, Japan) and Shuga Ikeda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dry space creation apparatus includes a processing tank, expansion members, an ejection unit, a dry gas supplier, and a controller. The processing tank has an internal space. The expansion members are provided in the processing tank and expand while leaving part of the internal space. The ejection unit ejects gas in the internal space out of the processing tan...