US Patent Issued to MITSUI KINZOKU ACT on Sept. 30 for "Hood latch assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,880, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUI KINZOKU ACT Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Hood latch assembly" was invented by Masazumi Miyagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiya Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kumiko Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hood latch assembly comprising: a striker; a base plate having a striker guiding path; a latch secured to the base plate by a latch shaft, the latch being configured to rotate from an unlatching position to an over-rotation position across a latching position upon engagement with the striker; a latch spring configured to push the latch in an unlatching direction; and a ratchet s...