US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubbar on Oct. 27 for "Assembly of metal flange and resin pipe and method of manufacturing assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,766, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubbar Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Assembly of metal flange and resin pipe and method of manufacturing assembly" was invented by Gang Hou (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Nobuaki Kuribayashi (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal flange having unevenness on a surface of an insertion hole is disposed in an insert portion in a cavity body of a mold. A resin pipe is formed by curing molten resin injected into a cavity. The metal flange is fitted to a fixing groove continuous over an entire circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the pipe in a circumferential dire...