US Patent Issued to Mahle International on Sept. 29 for "Intake manifold" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,715, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany).

"Intake manifold" was invented by Ryota Sakano (Tokyo) and Akihito Toda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air intake manifold may include an air intake tube that communicates with a plurality of cylinders of an internal combustion engine and a blow-by gas passage that guides blow-by gases of a crankcase of the internal combustion engine to the air intake tube. The air intake tube may include an intake air guide-in part into which intake air is guided, a plurality of branch tubes, a mounting part, and a valve disposed inside the branch tubes. The blow...