US Patent Issued to Three-M Industry on June 30 for "In-line strainer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,799, issued on June 30, was assigned to Three-M Industry Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"In-line strainer" was invented by Hideo Okuno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an in-line strainer capable of more reliably preventing the concentrated adhesion and accumulation of solid foreign matter or the like on a portion of a screen. In an in-line strainer according to the present invention, a housing 9 includes a cylinder wall 24 that is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape and extends in the vertical direction, and a top wall 25 that closes an upper end of the cylinder wall 24. The filter chamber 8 is divided into a prim...