US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Jan. 13 for "Heat insulation pipe" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,334, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Heat insulation pipe" was invented by Ryosuke Hayashi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat insulation pipe includes an inner pipe and an outer pipe. The inner pipe includes a pair of inner pipe members spaced apart from each other in an axial direction of the inner pipe, a first bellows disposed between the pair of inner pipe members, and a restriction mechanism for restricting expansion and contraction of the inner pipe in the axial direction to a predetermined range. The restriction mechanism is slidable with respect to at least one of a pair of bu...