ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,753, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ESPEC CORP. (Osaka, Japan).
"Environment forming device" was invented by Masaaki Ishida (Osaka, Japan), Masataka Nakanishi (Osaka, Japan) and Jun Hirai (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environment forming device includes: a device body having a space for generating a predetermined environment; a door; and a slide mechanism that makes the door slidable with respect to the device body so as to open and close the space. The slide mechanism includes an extension member having an elongated shape fixed to the door, and a holding portion that is arranged on the device body and slidably ...