US Patent Issued to KITZ on June 23 for "Sealing member, sealing mechanism, valve, and sealing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,084, issued on June 23, was assigned to KITZ Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sealing member, sealing mechanism, valve, and sealing method" was invented by Masazumi Funato (Chiba, Japan), Tetsuya Watanabe (Chiba, Japan) and Mitsuru Hosokawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Realized is a sealing member which exhibits excellent sealing properties even at a low temperature and a high pressure. A sealing member (100) includes: a first pressing part (110) that presses a first side part of a gap by pressing from a lateral direction; a second pressing part (120) that is pressed against a second side part of the gap by the pressing from the later...