US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Oct. 7 for "Rotary connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,321, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Inukami-gun, Japan).

"Rotary connector device" was invented by Rodrigo Kendy Yamashita (Inukami-gun, Japan), Shinichi Hamasaki (Inukami-gun, Japan), Takahisa Kakudo (Inukami-gun, Japan) and Yoji Tajiri (Inukami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary connector device includes a stator, a rotator, a first connector, and a second connector. The rotator is rotatable about a rotation axis with respect to the stator. The first connector is provided at the rotator. The second connector is provided at the stator. The fir...