ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,401, issued on May 20, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Grommet" was invented by Hirotaka Kiyota (Makinohara, Japan) and Takeshi Onoda (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grommet includes a base member, an annular water stop member, and a holding mechanism. The base member is made of a synthetic resin material having an insulation property through which a wiring material having electrical conductivity is inserted to be passed through a through hole of an insertion target. The annular water stop member is made of an elastically deformable synthetic resin material softer than the base member, and disposed integral...