US Patent Issued to HI-LEX on June 17 for "Cable coupling mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,778, issued on June 17, was assigned to HI-LEX Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Cable coupling mechanism" was invented by Takuma Imagawa (Hyogo, Japan), Shuhei Mieda (Hyogo, Japan) and Atsushi Nishimura (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable coupling mechanism comprises an operating cable, a first operated cable, a second operated cable, and a coupling device, wherein the coupling device has a housing and a slider, wherein the housing has one pair of guide surfaces, wherein the slider is configured to be rotatable around an axis perpendicular to a sliding direction and a width direction, and wherein both side edges in the width d...