ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,698, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Equipment inspection system" was invented by Hiroyuki Okuhira (Tsukubamirai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equipment inspection system performs compressed air leakage inspection on a plurality of pieces of pneumatic equipment that are connected to pipes, or pipe joints that connect the respective pipes and the plurality of pieces of pneumatic equipment, has a first branched pipe and a second branched pipe. A flow rate measurement device is provided in the second branched pipe. The flow rate measurement device measures the flow rate of the compressed air flowing i...