US Patent Issued to SENJU SPRINKLER on Sept. 15 for "Sprinkler head" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,386, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SENJU SPRINKLER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sprinkler head" was invented by Masaharu Chiba (Tokyo), Yoshiki Sasaki (Tokyo) and Kazuma Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a sprinkler head in which the amount of water sprinkled in a direction in which a pin supporting a deflector is provided is increased. Included are: a body having a nozzle through which a fire-extinguishing liquid is discharged; a disk-like deflector that sprinkles the fire-extinguishing liquid discharged from the nozzle outward in a direction intersecting the axis of the nozzle; and a support that supports the deflec...