US Patent Issued to TOYOX on March 31 for "Hose joint sleeve and hose joint with the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,659, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOX Co. LTD. (Toyama, Japan).

"Hose joint sleeve and hose joint with the same" was invented by Yoichi Sumiyoshi (Toyama, Japan) and Tomoaki Tanaka (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hose joint sleeve includes a sleeve main body that is deformable in a radial direction and is provided to hold a flexible hose between the sleeve main body and a nipple of a hose joint. The hose joint sleeve is configured to press and tighten the flexible hose toward an outer peripheral surface of the nipple with radial contraction and deformation of the sleeve main body, so as to fasten the flexibl...