ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,240, issued on June 24, was assigned to HARADA INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle exterior device" was invented by Conglin Yang (Tokyo), Hidekazu Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Takeshi Sakano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle exterior device includes: a base member; a cover attached to the base member in a watertight manner, the cover and the base member forming a housing space therebetween, the cover having at least one opening; a functional unit including a holder located on the base member in the housing space, and a functional component supported by the holder with a leading end thereof being exposed through the opening; an...