ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,722, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIDEC SANKYO Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Case and optical unit" was invented by Shinji Minamisawa (Nagano, Japan), Tsutomu Arai (Nagano, Japan) and Takeshi Sue (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case to hold a movable unit, which is provided with an optical module and a flexible circuit board having one end connected to the optical module, in a swingable manner that the optical module is swingable, is provided. The case includes: a holder, swingable together with the optical module to house the optical module; a fixing portion, provided at the holder to fix the flexible circuit board; ...