US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Fuel supply device for internal combustion engine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,429, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Fuel supply device for internal combustion engine" was invented by Mina Tachibana (Toyota, Japan), Yuki Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Tomihisa Tsuchiya (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine includes a tank, a fuel injection valve, a fuel passage, a second shut-off valve configured to open and close the fuel passage, a temperature increasing mechanism that increases a temperature of fuel flowing into the second shut-off valve, and a controller that executes a fuel pressure control. In the fuel pressur...