US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Hydrogen supply system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,218, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hydrogen supply system" was invented by Naoki Tomi (Kawasaki, Japan), Yoshikatsu Fujimura (Toyota, Japan) and Tetsuya Tonosako (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen supply system including: an attachable and detachable hydrogen tank; a hydrogen consumption device that consumes hydrogen of the hydrogen tank; and a control device is provided. The hydrogen consumption device includes an attaching-detaching mechanism that attaches and detaches the hydrogen tank with respect to the hydrogen consumption device. The attaching-detaching mechanism i...