ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,047, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Stuck-pump prevention device" was invented by Akihiro Suzuki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stuck-pump prevention device includes: a pump; a recovery-liquid generator coupled to a fuel tank and generating a recovery liquid by cooling evaporative fuel generated in the fuel tank and condensing and recovering a low-boiling component included in the evaporative fuel; a first pipe allowing a discharge port of the recovery-liquid generator and a recovery-liquid inlet of the pump to communicate with each other; a first on-off valve that opens and closes the discharge ...