US Patent Issued to Taikisha on Nov. 3 for "Hot air nozzle and drying oven" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,047, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Taikisha Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Hot air nozzle and drying oven" was invented by Kenji Sakita (Tokyo), Yukiya Takizawa (Tokyo), Kozo Ishida (Tokyo) and Toshihiko Koike (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot air nozzle includes a leading-end face 2 having an outlet, and at least one side face 3 extending between the leading-end face 2 and a base end 4. The leading-end face 2 has a shape that makes a lengthwise direction Alpha and a widthwise direction of the leading-end face 2 distinguishable, and has a center section 22 in the lengthwise direction Alpha that protrudes relative to two opposite ends 23...