US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on Sept. 15 for "Cylinder block with detected portions and hydraulic device including same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,046, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Cylinder block with detected portions and hydraulic device including same" was invented by Akihiro Kondo (Kobe, Japan), Yoshifuru Okada (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroyasu Kodera (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This cylinder block includes: a cylinder block body in which a plurality of cylinder chambers are formed around a rotating shaft; a plurality of first detected portions formed on the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder block body and circumferentially spaced apart from each other at a predetermined first distance; and one or more second det...