US Patent Issued to JATCO, NISSAN MOTOR on June 30 for "Device having tunnel portion and catch tank portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,300, issued on June 30, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji, Japan) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Device having tunnel portion and catch tank portion" was invented by Yuuki Tanaka (Fuji, Japan), Yutaka Okumura (Numazu, Japan), Yusuke Suzuki (Iwata, Japan) and Yojiro Mochizuki (Fujinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component comprising: a first case portion having a tunnel portion having an opening end opening toward an axial direction; and a second case portion having a catch tank portion opening upward, wherein the first case portion and the second case portion face each other such that a bottom portion of t...