ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,669, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Generator" was invented by Kohei Kawano (Wako, Japan), Hiroaki Kojima (Wako, Japan), Jun Yamamoto (Wako, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Ito (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator capable of suppressing leakage of a liquid fuel includes a fuel tank that stores the liquid fuel. The fuel tank has a fuel inlet, a tank bulge portion that has the fuel inlet and that bulges to a position higher than the fuel inlet, and a breather path formed of a pipe member communicating between an inside and an outside of the fuel tank. The tank bulge portion is provided with an i...