US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 15 for "Gas supply system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,517, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas supply system includes: a gas tank equipped with a self-closing valve; a gas supply pipe that connects the gas tank to a gas utilization device; and a sealing member. As the gas tank approaches the gas supply pipe, the self-closing valve opens. When a threshold amount of gas fails to be removed from the gas supply pipe within a threshold time after the self-closing valve is closed, the ...