ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,117, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HI-LEX Corp. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Toothed cable and toothed cable guiding apparatus" 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 toothed cable includes a cable body, and a cap provided at a tip of the cable body. The cap includes a conical tip portion, and a cylindrical body portion provided on a side of a base end of the tip portion, when the toothed cable moves in a direction from a side of the cap toward a side of the cable body in a curved guiding path of a guide member, the cap moves so as to ...