US Patent Issued to Surpass Industry on Dec. 30 for "Tube pump with protruding part to prevent movement of the tube into the gears" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,067, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Surpass Industry Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"Tube pump with protruding part to prevent movement of the tube into the gears" was invented by Hiroshi Imai (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tube pump including: an accommodation unit accommodating a pair of roller units and having a tube arranged therein; and a pair of drive units that rotate the pair of roller units, respectively. The outer circumferential face of a roller has a first gear area provided with a first gear, a first tube area contacted with the tube, and a groove area with a groove formed about the roller a...