US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Tank" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,882, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Tank" was invented by Masayoshi Takami (Hamamatsu, Japan), Chihiro Uchimura (Toyota, Japan), Akira Noumura (Nisshin, Japan) and Shinichi Nomura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tank includes a liner, a neck that has a communicating orifice, a metal cylindrical member that is inserted into a lower end portion of the communicating orifice, and a valve that is inserted into the communicating orifice, wherein a lower end portion of the valve is inserted into the metal cylindrical member. The liner includes a wrap-around portion that wraps around ...