US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 2 for "Gas tank" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,568, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Gas tank" was invented by Shinnosuke Sako (Toyota, Japan), Tomoyoshi Kobayashi (Toyota, Japan), Yutaka Sawada (Toyota, Japan), Kosuke Kobayashi (Toyota, Japan) and Yuya Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gas tank disclosed herein includes a tank body, a first neck, a neck mount, a mount plate, and a plate bolt. The first neck extends from one end of the tank body along its axis and is provided with external threads on its outer periphery. The neck mount is a component for fixing the tank body to the apparatus, and has a first female s...