ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,600, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Fuel injection valve support structure" was invented by Naoki Tanaka (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel injection valve support structure simple in structure is provided which is capable of preventing a fuel injection valve from rotating about an axis of a valve housing thereof without providing a special rotation-preventing piece on an elastic support member. In this support structure, a base plate (15) of an elastic support member (S) is provided with a notch (19) which receives a valve housing (1). A rotation-preventing protrusion ...