ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,454, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Support structure for intake manifold" was invented by Kosuke Aoki (Sakai, Japan), Hiroyuki Kawasoe (Sakai, Japan), Kengo Hidaka (Sakai, Japan), Kohta Nakao (Sakai, Japan) and Miharu Yahata (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support structure for an intake manifold that reduces a burden of support on a front side of the intake manifold. The support structure includes a cylinder head and a fixing structure, and supports the intake manifold. An axial length direction of a crankshaft center is defined as a left-right direction, a horizontal direction ortho...