US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 22 for "Removal determination device for exhaust gas purification device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,604, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Removal determination device for exhaust gas purification device" was invented by Kazuya Miyaji (Okazaki, Japan), Teruhiko Miyake (Suntou-gun, Japan), Tomoyuki Tsuji (Nagakute, Japan), Yusuke Joh (Toyota, Japan) and Yoshifumi Matsuda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removal determination device that accurately determines a removal of an exhaust gas purification device from an exhaust pipe. The removal determination device comprises: an input temperature sensor detecting a temperature at an upstream side of casing; an output temperature sensor...