ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,232, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle door device" was invented by Jueru Shimizu (Kariya, Japan), Yosuke Kaji (Kariya, Japan), Yusuke Kajino (Kariya, Japan) and Manabu Murai (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door device includes first and second link arms each including a first pivotal connection point to a vehicle body and a second pivotal connection point to a door of a vehicle, and a drive unit that opens and closes the door based on an operation of a link mechanism formed by the first and second link arms by using at least one of the first and second link arms as a dri...