US Patent Issued to YACHIYO INDUSTRY on June 10 for "Fuel tank production apparatus and fuel tank production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,174, issued on June 10, was assigned to YACHIYO INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Fuel tank production apparatus and fuel tank production method" was invented by Kazuyoshi Morooka (Tochigi, Japan) and Toru Matsuzaki (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel tank production apparatus includes a forming mold and a cooling mold. The forming mold has a protruding ridge portion on a molding surface thereof and is configured to form a primary molded article while forming a bead-shaped portion so as to provide a recess on an outer surface. The cooling mold is configured to cool the primary molded article while crushing the be...