ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,432, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Housing and control device" was invented by Takeshi Honda (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing that is to be attached to an object via a bracket includes: a contact surface contacted by the press-fitted bracket; a pair of projecting portions that are disposed at both sides of the contact surface in a widthwise direction along the contact surface and orthogonal to a press-fitting direction of the bracket and project out toward the bracket and extend in the press-fitting direction; a pair of clamping portions that extend t...