Originally Posted by
fietsbob
You can do an Online visit to the US Patent office , to see if that Idea
is already on the books.
Reprints of the japanese "Data Book" are not too terrible, lots of 'new' things
have a habit of being made before ... in like in 1946 ..
Good call--- if it's been patented it would be quite a shame that it hasn't been put into use already