US Patent Issued to TOYOX on May 12 for "Hose joint" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,781, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOX Co. LTD. (Toyama, Japan).

"Hose joint" was invented by Shuji Sugita (Toyama, Japan) and Kazuki Shimizu (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hose joint includes: a nipple having conductivity and provided along an insertion space of the hose body; a sleeve deformable in a radial direction and provided so as to surround an outer circumference of the insertion space of the hose body formed along an outer peripheral surface of the nipple; a plurality of separated holders provided outside of the sleeve to cover an outer face of the sleeve in a circumferential direction and be separab...