US Patent Issued to KYB on June 23 for "Electric pump system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,002, issued on June 23, was assigned to KYB Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric pump system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Hironaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Tsukui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazunari Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pump system includes: a pump configured such that a discharge flow rate is controlled in accordance with an opening degree of a solenoid valve, the operation of the solenoid valve being controlled by energization; an electric motor configured to drive the pump; and a control device configured to control the operations of the solenoid valve of the pump and the electric motor based on the command...