US Patent Issued to SANOH INDUSTRIAL on March 17 for "Pipe joint" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,048, issued on March 17, was assigned to SANOH INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pipe joint" was invented by Toru Ushizaka (Koga, Japan), Akihiko Horie (Koga, Japan) and Kazuyuki Tsurumi (Koga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe joint includes a housing, a retainer capable of moving from a releasing position to a locking position, a detection arm provided in the retainer, regulating pressing of the retainer by a regulating wall of the housing in a state in which the retainer is at the releasing position, and releasing the regulation by the regulating wall by bending to an outer side in a radial direction of the housing, a pipe ...