ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,972, issued on April 29, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Protector having clamp engaging mechanism" was invented by Youngho Jang (Aichi, Japan) and Jin Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protector includes: a protector body having a routing part in which a wire harness is routed, and a clamp attachment part in which a locking hole is formed; and a clamp which is locked in the locking hole to hold the wire harness. The clamp includes a pair of clamp-side flat parts which are formed to face in directions opposite to each other. The clamp attachment part has a pair of rotation prevention portions which are ...