US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on Oct. 7 for "Complexed cylinder block" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,680, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Complexed cylinder block" was invented by Norikatsu Sekine (Kanagawa, Japan), Kunihiko Iriguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junya Takebe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite cylinder block for an internal combustion engine includes a main block body made of a metal material and an outer member made of a synthetic resin material. The main block body has a lower deck, a base part and a cylinder wall. The outer member has an upper deck and a water jacket constituting wall surrounding the cylinder wall to define a water jacket. An outer-membe...