ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,068, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Electric pump" was invented by Shuji Hattori (Kariya, Japan), Yuta Inoue (Kariya, Japan) and Tomohiro Kajita (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pump includes a pump body, an annular elastic member to be arranged on an outer periphery of the pump body, and a lock member to be attached to the elastic member. The elastic member is split as a part of a peripheral direction, and includes a pair of penetration holes along an axial direction of the elastic member, at both end portions that faces each other by the splitting of the peripheral directi...