US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Pump device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,255, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Pump device" was invented by Naoto Onoda (Sunto-gun, Japan), Takahiro Shiina (Numazu, Japan) and Hideaki Komada (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump device, that supplies a liquid reserved in a reservoir to a first liquid supply destination and a second liquid supply destination, includes: a first pump whose suction port and discharge port are not switched between at forward rotation and at reverse rotation; a second pump whose suction port and discharge port are switched each other between at forward rotation and at reverse rotation; a power ...