ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,919, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle door lock device" was invented by Atsushi Nakashima (Tokyo), Mitsunori Nishino (Tokyo), Toshihiro Kaneda (Tokyo), Akira Kamikura (Tokyo), Riki Toyooka (Tokyo), Makoto Ono (Tokyo), Tsukasa Kishida (Tokyo), Koji Masuda (Tokyo) and Koji Nomura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door lock device for a door of a vehicle includes: a mechanical changeover mechanism switchable between a mechanical lock mode in which a motion of a door handle lever is not transmitted to a latch and a mechanical unlock mode in which the motion of the door handle lever i...