US Patent Issued to KAWASAKI MOTORS on May 12 for "Vehicle pump assembly and off-road vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,653, issued on May 12, was assigned to KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Vehicle pump assembly and off-road vehicle" was invented by Sho Kagami (Akashi, Japan), Atsushi Tajima (Akashi, Japan) and Yoshihiko Inagaki (Akashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle pump assembly 13 includes a pump 30 having a mechanical seal 35 sealing a cooling medium and a drain hose 50 attached to the pump 30. The pump 30 includes an introduction chamber 40 separated by the mechanical seal 35 and configured such that the cooling medium having leaked from the mechanical seal 35 is introduced thereinto, and the drain hose 50 communicates with...