US Patent Issued to SMC on July 7 for "Ultrasonic flow sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,696, issued on July 7, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic flow sensor" was invented by Hiroto Nakajima (Tsukubamirai, Japan) and Junya Okada (Tsukubamirai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic flow sensor is constituted by a body assembly and clamp assemblies positioned at opposite ends of the body assembly. The body assembly includes a housing that houses an ultrasonic element and the clamp assemblies include clamp bands. The clamp assemblies are supported on the housing in a manner so that the clamp assemblies are displaceable in a direction perpendicular to a bottom surface of the housing that comes in con...