US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 7 for "Ejection device and method for removing foreign matter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,272, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Ejection device and method for removing foreign matter" was invented by Tetsuhiro Takenaka (Miyoshi, Japan), Keisuke Fukushima (Nagoya, Japan) and Masashi Katsura (Kasugai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an ejection device including an insertion portion that is held by an operator and inserted toward a relevant portion in a narrow space, and a method for removing foreign matter adhering to the relevant portion. The insertion portion includes an ejection unit including a fluidic substance ejection port in a distal end portion. A foreign matt...