ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,981, issued on May 13, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Wire harness and cable waterproof structure" was invented by Noriyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takahiro Futatsumori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness is provided with a cable including wires coated with a sheath, a rubber stopper that covers an end of the sheath together with a portion in a longitudinal direction of the wires, and a cover made of a harder material than the rubber stopper and accommodating the rubber stopper. The rubber stopper integrally has a sheath sealing portion having an inner peripheral surface that comes into contact with an outer ...