ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,358, issued on April 15, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Wire harness" was invented by Naoto Kogure (Shizuoka, Japan), Hikaru Sano (Shizuoka, Japan) and Seiichi Sumiya (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a harness body that is a wiring component that electrically connects a first electrical connection target installed on a slide door and a second electrical connection target installed on a vehicle body, and is wired along a link mechanism that couples the slide door and the vehicle body and reciprocates the slide door in a sliding direction with respect to the vehicle body; and a harness temporary holding ...