ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,102, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Joint structure and joining method" was invented by Shunsuke Haruna (Kobe, Japan), Shintaro Fukada (Kobe, Japan), Ryoji Ohashi (Kobe, Japan) and Ryoichi Hatano (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joined assembly includes: a first member; a second member which has a facing part facing the first member in a thickness direction thereof; and joints lying along the facing part to join the first member and the second member to each other. The joints include: a pair of end joints respectively located at the opposite end portions of the facing part; and a...