ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,414, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).
"Wiring member" was invented by Daisuke Ebata (Mie, Japan), Takuya Kaba (Mie, Japan), Tetsuya Nishimura (Mie, Japan), Yusuke Mitani (Mie, Japan), Masaki Mizushita (Mie, Japan) and Itsuo Wakabayashi (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiring member includes: a sheet including a fusion layer; a wire-like transmission member fused to the fusion layer; a connector housing in which a cavity housing an end portion of the wire-like transmission member is formed; and a water stop member stopping water between a...