ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,588, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JTEKT Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Valve assembly" was invented by Kazushi Numazaki (Toyota, Japan), Natsuki Iwamoto (Okazaki, Japan), Toshikatsu Kubo (Obu, Japan) and Keiichiro Kitahara (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite valve sub assembly includes a tubular sleeve inserted into a single attachment hole of a body; an electromagnetic valve body housed in the sleeve; a solenoid actuator configured to move the electromagnetic valve body in the sleeve; a plug fixed at an end portion of the sleeve and disposed between the sleeve and a bottom surface of the attachment hole; and a c...