US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Gas supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,045, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Gas supply device" was invented by Keiichi Kaneko (Mishima, Japan), Yoshikatsu Fujimura (Toyota, Japan), Naoki Tomi (Kawasaki, Japan), Koji Sugiura (Toyota, Japan), Kei Kato (Nagakute, Japan), Tomoki Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan) and Tetsuya Tonosako (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gas supply device disclosed in the present specification includes a cover that shuts off the periphery of the main stop valve and the connector of the gas cartridge from the outside air, and a removal device that removes impurities from the inner space of the cover in...