US Patent Issued to JTEKT on Sept. 22 for "Valve assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,506, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly includes a body and a plurality of valve subassemblies. The valve subassemblies include a safety valve having an inlet and another valve. The body has a gas flow passage including a first flow passage connected to a gas tank and a second flow passage connected to an external device, and an integrated attachment ho...