US Patent Issued to BUNKA SHUTTER on April 15 for "Connecting fitting construction materials and connecting method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,155, issued on April 15, was assigned to BUNKA SHUTTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Connecting fitting construction materials and connecting method therefor" was invented by Masanori Kobayashi (Tokyo), Shigeo Yamagami (Tokyo) and Katsuhiko Murakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting fitting for connecting two construction materials includes a first and second connecting members for connecting the construction materials, and a parallelizing means having a parallelizing function of aligning the connecting members in a first direction and making them parallel or almost parallel to each other. The first direction is a direction perp...