ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,617, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Wire regulator" was invented by Kenji Yamamoto (Fujisawa, Japan), Kenichi Suzuki (Fujisawa, Japan), Kazuya Yokoyama (Fujisawa, Japan), Takashi Sagisaka (Toyota, Japan), Toshihiro Gotou (Toyota, Japan) and Kenji Kaneko (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task is to provide a wire regulator that can prevent a wire and a guide rail from rusting and prevent an operation failure of the wire regulator. A first rain water guide part 170 that prevents rain water from entering an ascending wire end housing part 157, a de...