US Patent Issued to Kubota on July 15 for "Pipe joint, spacer provided in pipe joint, and dividing piece constituting spacer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,755, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pipe joint, spacer provided in pipe joint, and dividing piece constituting spacer" was invented by Ryunosuke Tanaka (Amagasaki, Japan), Yuito Komaru (Amagasaki, Japan) and Keita Oda (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spacer for limiting the movement of a spigot in an insertion direction is mounted between a distal end portion of the spigot and a deep end face of a socket. The spacer has a cylindrical body sandwiched between the distal end portion of the spigot and the deep end face of the socket, a contact portion in contact with the deep end face o...