ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,081, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EBARA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Pump casing and pump" was invented by Miho Isono (Tokyo), Shrunali Ranade (Tokyo), Tetsuya Ishiwata (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Maeda (Tokyo), Takahiro Noji (Tokyo), Masaaki Imafuku (Tokyo) and Kazuya Hiramoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump casing and a pump. The pump casing includes a cutter having an upper surface facing a leading edge portion of an impeller when the impeller is housed in the pump casing. The upper surface has a region with at least two angles."
The patent was filed on April 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/579,524.
*For further information, incl...