US Patent Issued to SMC on Oct. 7 for "Ejector and vacuum generating device including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,737, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ejector and vacuum generating device including the same" was invented by Kenichi Matsumura (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ejector includes an ejector body having an internal passage and a negative-pressure generating mechanism including a nozzle unit and a diffuser unit that generates a negative pressure by using compressed air ejected by the nozzle unit. The ejector body has a first attachment surface to which a valve body of a switching valve is attached and a second attachment surface to which a base body of the manifold base is attached. The first attach...