US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 30 for "Connector driving structure and power source apparatus having same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,573, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector driving structure and power source apparatus having same" was invented by Osamu Fukuda (Sakado, Japan), Aya Goto (Tokyo), Hirokazu Umemura (Tokyo) and Toshihiro Masuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector driving structure includes an operating part, a driving part that moves in conjunction with movement of the operating part, a connector elastically supported by the driving part, a damper supported by the connector, and a battery stand. Operating the operating part changes the position of the driving part between a close position where th...