US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on Aug. 25 for "Exhaust system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,567, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Exhaust system" was invented by Kazuhisa Ito (Akashi City, Japan), Yoshinori Fukui (Osaka, Japan), Shunji Hamaoka (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Uehara (Osaka, Japan) and Masato Nakai (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an exhaust duct provided above a marine internal combustion engine installed in an engine room of a ship; and a suction fan that sucks a fuel leakage gas leaking from the marine internal combustion engine into the inside of the exhaust duct from an engine upper...