US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Dec. 30 for "Mounting device for elastic tubular member and mounting method for elastic tubular member" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,869, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mounting device for elastic tubular member and mounting method for elastic tubular member" was invented by Motohiko Matsushita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting device for an elastic tubular member includes a movable sleeve holding member, and arms each of which has one end swingably fixed to the movable sleeve holding member. The other end of each arm has a receiving portion whose state changes between a diameter-reduced state and a diameter-expanded state due to swinging of the arm. The movable sleeve includes a flange portion which constitute...