US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Driving device for energy replenishment port visor member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,006, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Driving device for energy replenishment port visor member" was invented by Kenichiro Kaneko (Kiyosu, Japan), Kazuki Fujisawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Susumu Otsuka (Handa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This driving device for energy replenishment port visor member includes: a visor member which advances/retracts between an advanced position for covering, from above, a replenishment port exposed at a vehicle-body-side opening and used for replenishing a vehicle with energy, and a retracted position where the...