US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Aug. 18 for "Valve device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,108, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Valve device" was invented by Noboru Ito (Kobe, Japan), Hiroaki Fujiwara (Kobe, Japan), Kiminori Morita (Kobe, Japan) and Masahiro Matsuo (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve device (100) includes an operation shaft (50) operable to be moved along a rotation axis A1 of an operation pin (40) to be switched between a coupled state in which the operation shaft (50) is coupled to the operation pin (40) and rotates together with the operation pin (40), and an uncoupled state in which the operation shaft (50) is not coupled to the operation pin (40...