US Patent Issued to JTEKT on July 7 for "Valve assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,517, issued on July 7, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Valve assembly" was invented by Tsunehito Watanabe (Ichinomiya, Japan), Natsuki Iwamoto (Okazaki, Japan), Kazushi Numazaki (Toyota, Japan), Tetsuya Tokuno (Kashihara, Japan), Toshikatsu Kubo (Obu, Japan), Kazuki Okamura (Okazaki, Japan) and Kazuhiro Takabayashi (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Valve subassemblies include a check valve attached to a first attachment hole in a body, and an electromagnetic valve attached to a second attachment hole in the body. A second flow passage includes a common port, a linear first portion extending from the common p...