ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,443, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Gas-liquid separator" was invented by Hitoshi Okuno (Kariya, Japan), Takami Hosoi (Aichi-gun, Japan) and Hiroaki Nishiumi (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas-liquid separator includes a housing, an inlet in the housing, a flow passage which is in communication with the inlet and through which a water-containing gas supplied through the inlet flows in a vertical direction, a gas-flow director configured to change a flow direction of the water-containing gas flowing through the flow passage from the vertical d...