ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,587, issued on July 1, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Grommet assembly and wire harness" was invented by Yoshimichi Yamao (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Yokoyama (Toyota, Japan) and Akihisa Unoh (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grommet assembly includes: a grommet through which a wiring material is inserted, that is attached to a through hole formed on a panel for a vehicle; a resin inner arranged to abut on a side of the grommet opposite to the panel for the vehicle; and a protector through which the wiring material is inserted, the protector being locked to the resin inner and attached to the panel for the vehicle t...