US Patent Issued to WATERWORKS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION on Sept. 23 for "Branch pipe forming apparatus, lid doubling as valve element, branch pipe forming apparatus with lid doubling as valve element, and branch pipe formation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,081, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WATERWORKS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Branch pipe forming apparatus, lid doubling as valve element, branch pipe forming apparatus with lid doubling as valve element, and branch pipe formation method" was invented by Gou Horikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Daisuke Kuwagaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The branch pipe forming apparatus 100 includes a first split member 3 and a second split member 4, which include split surfaces 3a and 4a along a plane including an axial center X of the existing pipe W and an axial center Y of a branch pipe 2, and which...