ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,683, issued on July 15, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Holding member with actuator cover and actuator cover" was invented by Shungo Fujita (Tokyo), Kentaro Yoshizawa (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Yasui (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object is to improve the durability of fluid pressure actuators. The holding member with actuator cover according to this disclosure comprises: a holding section to be attached to a fluid pressure actuator driven by fluid pressure to hold an object; and an actuator cover that covers the fluid pressure actuator while the holding section is attached to the fluid pressure actuator."
The paten...