ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,892, issued on March 25, was assigned to ELRINGKLINGER MARUSAN Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fastener and shield unit" was invented by Takaya Watanabe (Saitama, Japan), Yasuhumi Inoue (Saitama, Japan), Shota Miura (Saitama, Japan) and Pascal Dirnberger (Bavaria, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support component that supports a shielding member, and a fixing component that fixes the shielding member to the structure via the support component. The support component has a cylindrical part, two flange parts and spring part. The spring parts have a first spring and a second spring with different load-deflection characteristics. The first spri...