US Patent Issued to JTEKT on April 29 for "Pressure reduction valve" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,038, issued on April 29, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Pressure reduction valve" was invented by Kazushi Numazaki (Toyota, Japan), Tetsuya Kaneko (Okazaki, Japan), Akira Nakano (Okazaki, Japan), Kazuhiro Takabayashi (Okazaki, Japan), Kazuo Haneda (Toyota, Japan) and Yuya Kihara (Nishio, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure reduction valve includes a body including a gas passage, a valve seat provided in the gas passage, and a valve member provided on a downstream side of the valve seat in the gas passage. The gas passage includes a primary-side passage section located on an upstream side of the valve member,...