US Patent Issued to OMRON on July 1 for "Terminal block and control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,993, issued on July 1, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Terminal block and control device" was invented by Tomonori Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Kohei Tanino (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiko Kubo (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaaki Nagano (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal block attachable to a control device includes a main body including a wiring connection part to which wiring is connected, a first rotation mechanism unit arranged at a first end in a first direction of the main body, and a second rotation mechanism unit arranged at a second end in the first direction of the main body. The first rotation mechanism unit a...