US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on April 22 for "Wire harness manufacturing method, wire harness, protective member assembly, and protective member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,800, issued on April 22, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wire harness manufacturing method, wire harness, protective member assembly, and protective member" was invented by Masayoshi Ogawa (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Yokoyama (Toyota, Japan) and Hirotada Suyama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wire harness manufacturing method includes: an insertion step of inserting a binding member through an insertion hole of a protective member; a temporary retention step of inserting the binding member through a temporary retention notch in a state where the binding member is inserted through the insertion hole, and hooking the...