US Patent Issued to JGC on Oct. 20 for "Branching pipe and method for manufacturing branching pipe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,482, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JGC Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Branching pipe and method for manufacturing branching pipe" was invented by Atsushi Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Osamu Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a branching pipe including: a main pipe that includes a main pipe inner layer portion and a main pipe outer layer portion, and is provided with a main pipe branch hole penetrating through the main pipe inner layer portion and the main pipe outer layer portion, and in the main pipe branch hole, a diameter of an outer-layer-side opening formed in an outer layer surface is larger ...