US Patent Issued to SMC on Nov. 4 for "Manifold air pressure feeder and manifold block for use in manifold air pressure feeder" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,658, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Manifold air pressure feeder and manifold block for use in manifold air pressure feeder" was invented by Kenichi Matsumura (Tsukubamirai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Object] To provide a manifold air pressure feeder and a manifold block for use in the manifold air pressure feeder that yield reductions in the piping installation work and other workloads associated with a pressure sensor configured to determine the pressure of compressed air in the manifold block and save installation space.[Solution] An air pressure feeder 1 includes a manifold block 10 and a switchin...