US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Connection structure for cartridge and gas consumption device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,341, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Connection structure for cartridge and gas consumption device" was invented by Tomoki Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan) and Osamu Sawai (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the connectors between the cartridge and the gas consumption device, one of the connectors has a plurality of positioning teeth protruding from the outer circumferential surface formed at intervals in the circumferential direction around the axis. A plurality of positioning grooves having groove widths corresponding to circumferential tooth widths of the positioning teeth are for...