US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Tank inspection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,043, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Tank inspection method" was invented by Akinori Eda (Nagakute, Japan), Takashi Usui (Toyota, Japan) and Kei Kato (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tank inspection method capable of efficiently draining water injected into a tank at the time of inspection. A tank inspection method TIM includes a supporting step, a water injection step, a pressure increasing step, and a draining step. The supporting step supports a tank with the central axis crossed with the horizontal plane such that openings provided at both ends in a direction a...