US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Nov. 18 for "Connection member and connection unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,004, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Connection member and connection unit" was invented by Takehito Tamaoka (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshihisa Kitamura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a flow path extending in an axial direction along a central axis, a body including a through hole extending in the axial direction, a pipe including a through hole extending in the axial direction, and a seal including a sealing material between the body and the pipe. The body includes a body-side opposing surface opposing the pipe. The pipe includes a pipe-side opposing surface opposing the b...