US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 8 for "Fuel pump shutoff valve for liquidfied petroleum injection engine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,661, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel pump shutoff valve for liquidfied petroleum injection engine" was invented by Chang Han Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Man Seok Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seung Hoon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Yup Oh (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shutoff valve structure of a liquefied petroleum injection (LPI) engine includes an operation valve disposed within a pump housing in a fuel pump and configured to allow or block the flow of fuel from the fuel pump. The shutoff valve structure includes ...