ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,390, issued on March 4, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo) and AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Wire harness" was invented by Naoto Kogure (Shizuoka, Japan), Hikaru Sano (Shizuoka, Japan) and Seiichi Sumiya (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A harness body (10) is guided to a fixed portion (522) on a side of a slide door (520) by a harness guide tool (40) at an other end portion (612) of a first arm member (610) on a side of a vehicle body (510) and includes a third routing portion (13) having a fixing portion (13a) fixed to the fixed portion, a link mechanism (600) includes a second arm member (620) on the side of the slide ...