US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on March 18 for "Lid opening/closing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,007, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Lid opening/closing device" was invented by Kenichiro Kaneko (Kiyosu, Japan) and Kazuki Fujisawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid opening/closing device includes an actuator configured to generate first power for opening a lid, an external force operation mechanism configured to convert an external force into second power for opening the lid, and a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit the first and second power to the lid. The power transmission mechanism includes a first shaft configured to rotate by the first and...