US Patent Issued to AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY, KYB on June 30 for "Extension and contraction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,983, issued on June 30, was assigned to AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY (Akita, Japan) and KYB Corp. (Tokyo).

"Extension and contraction device" was invented by Takashi Saito (Yurihonjo, Japan), Tatsuya Iizuka (Yurihonjo, Japan), Kiriro Suzuki (Yurihonjo, Japan), Kousei Sekino (Yurihonjo, Japan), Yasushi Saitou (Nagano, Japan) and Takuya Arakawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extension and contraction device includes a tape driving device configured to perform winding up of the tape and delivery of the tape. The tape driving device has a reel around which the tape is wound, a motive-power source configured to perform t...