US Patent Issued to WALBRO on Jan. 13 for "Method of forming a diaphragm for a liquid pump" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,213, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to WALBRO LLC (Cass City, Mich.).

"Method of forming a diaphragm for a liquid pump" was invented by Nobuyuki Kuroki (Sendai, Japan), Katsuaki Hamataka (Sendai, Japan), Mark S. Swanson (Concord, N.C.), Tetsuya Takahashi (Shibata-Gun, Japan) and Teruhiko Tobinai (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least some implementations, a method of forming a diaphragm for a liquid pump, includes clamping a substantially planar piece of material about a periphery, and plastically deforming the piece of material inboard of the clamped periphery. In at least some implementations, the material is pl...