ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,676, issued on March 18, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Jig for inserting filling member into reactor" was invented by Yusuke Takeuchi (Tokyo), Akihisa Yano (Tokyo), Shunji Miyajima (Tokyo), Shigeki Sakakura (Tokyo), Taiga Yamamoto (Tokyo), Takuya Yoshinoya (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kamata (Tokyo), Daisuke Tsunoda (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Honma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jig for inserting a packing into a flow passage of a reactor extending in one direction or for removing the packing from the flow passage, includes: a pair of strip portions extending in parallel with each other, having a length longer than the flow passage; a...