US Patent Issued to AISIN on Aug. 12 for "Valve opening and closing timing control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,421, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Valve opening and closing timing control device" was invented by Takuya Enami (Kariya, Japan), Seiichi Fujimoto (Kariya, Japan) and Masaaki Kaneko (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve open/close timing controller including a driving-side rotating body rotating about a rotating shaft core synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine with a driven-side rotating body inside the driving-side rotating body and coaxially with the rotating shaft core that rotates integrally with a camshaft to open/close an intake valve of an internal co...