US Patent Issued to IHI on Sept. 8 for "Object holding structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,721, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Object holding structure" was invented by Daigo Yoneda (Tokyo), Yoshitaka Morooka (Tokyo) and Yuma Kunisaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object holding structure includes: an inner member including an end surface, a first clamping surface located radially outward of the end surface, and hook portions arranged in a circumferential direction at intervals on the end surface; an outer member located radially outward of the inner member, including an end surface and a second clamping surface opposed to the first clamping surface through an object; a key plate contacta...