US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Aug. 25 for "Snap-through two-piece pressure relief valve" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,388, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Piano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Snap-through two-piece pressure relief valve" was invented by Paul A. Gilmore (Howell, Mich.), Shinnosuke Shimokawa (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Phouvadol P. Khouphongsy (Saline, Mich.), Jorge C. Gonzalez Salinas (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Louis J. Brady (Romulus, Mich.) and Gurmeet Singh (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to a pressure relief valve that exhibits high flow rates at low pressures. The pressure relief va...