ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,319, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).
"Decompression device and engine" was invented by Yuichi Kawano (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hidekuni Ota (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Shintaro Ishida (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decompression device is attached to an exhaust camshaft, and the exhaust camshaft is supported by a cylinder head. The decompression device includes a decompression camshaft formed with a decompression cam that can protrude and be immersed with respect to a base circle of an exhaust cam of the exhaust camshaft, a decompression arm that moves in an opening direction due to ...