US Patent Issued to TOYO DENSO on April 15 for "Lever switch mounted on vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,066, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYO DENSO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lever switch mounted on vehicle" was invented by Ryohei Kaneda (Tsurugashima, Japan), Fuminori Takayama (Tsurugashima, Japan), Michitaka Kobayashi (Wako, Japan) and Masahiko Shimada (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lever switch with an improved operation feeling includes a clicking surface of a click feeling generator that abuts with an end portion of a switch moving body turning about a turn fulcrum in response to an operation of an operation lever, and generates a click feeling by causing a reaction force against the operation of the operation lever. A r...