US Patent Issued to MITSUI KINZOKU ACT on July 15 for "Vehicle door latch device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,475, issued on July 15, was assigned to MITSUI KINZOKU ACT Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Vehicle door latch device" was invented by Shintaro Okawa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door latch device has actuator and engagement assemblies of a front- or rear-tooth engagement system. The engagement assembly includes a body, a pivotable latch engaging a striker, a pivotable ratchet engaging the latch, and an input lever pivotably supported to the body to transmit its releasing operation to the ratchet. The actuator assembly includes a housing fixed to the body and an output lever transmitting power to the input lever...