US Patent Issued to IHI, MJOLNIR SPACEWORKS on May 5 for "Liquid tank, rocket, and method of manufacturing liquid tank" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,523, issued on May 5, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo) and MJOLNIR SPACEWORKS Co. Ltd. (Sapporo, Japan).

"Liquid tank, rocket, and method of manufacturing liquid tank" was invented by Yoshiki Sakaguchi (Kashiwara, Japan), Masahiko Yamazaki (Kashiwara, Japan), Shinichi Mishima (Kashiwara, Japan), Thibault Bagnol (Tokyo), Mitsunori Itoh (Tokyo) and Tor Viscor (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a liquid tank, including: a cylindrical seamless tank body having both end portions being reduced in diameter toward respective end sides; and a plurality of annular baffles provided inside the tank body and arranged at int...