US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on July 8 for "Grommet assembly with lip and protector, and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,768, issued on July 8, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grommet assembly with lip and protector, 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, and a protector through which the wiring material is inserted, that is attached to the panel to house the grommet. The grommet includes a lip part that is formed toward the panel to abut on the panel, and the protector includes a wall par...